Sentences with word «duplicitous»

I'd laugh too if I were as duplicitous as you.

From the electric guitar on the soundtrack to the predictable duplicitous nature of practically every single character, «Kill Me Three Times» kills all the fun by the time you reach the halfway point.

It certainly looks like The West Wing if Aaron Sorkin «s show was dark, cynical, and filled with duplicitous characters but...

There are so many ideas rattling around in Backstabbing for Beginners that are never resolved, and so many duplicitous characters that are never satisfactorily explained, that the end result is a muddle of confusion and violence that could end the future of tourism in Baghdad forever.

Black ghettoization was purposely engineered by duplicitous white people, who at first used enslavement but later turned to subtler methods of oppression.

A discussion on duplicitous economics with Richard Wolff.

The stock, after being exposed for duplicitous accounting practices, sits at 14 cents per share on July 1, 2016.

She's met with indifference from her surly daughter and duplicitous husband (James le Gros).

He's found strength in openness, and whatever liabilities may come with his boldness have been made up for in effectiveness, and he's critical of those who use duplicitous means to gain access to closed countries.

But in the Biblical sense, it means «not duplicitous».

Oh geez, and we've yet to mention the presence of the fantastic Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Strange, Sebastian Stan as the un-brainwashed White Wolf, Tom Hiddleston's ever - duplicitous Loki, Idris Elba's Heimdall, Benicio del Toro's The Collector and Peter Dinklage in a role sure to delight anyone who loves Peter Dinklage, and who in the world doesn't love Peter Dinklage?

«Emails requesting donations from duplicitous charitable organizations commonly appear after major natural disasters.»

In constructing traps and lures, Rantanen explicates his interest in duplicitous objects; the sculptures are, in this respect, self - reflexive, drawing skeptical attention to their own status as artworks — a designation which, while superficially arbitrary, enacts an intrinsic transformation upon the cultural and monetary value of its subjects.

But most readers will be fascinated by his critical and damning comments about the motivation and duplicitous behaviour of senior Conservatives with IDS, Gove and Johnson front and centre.

«I did see a manipulative and duplicitous side of him that gave me serious pause,» Jacobs wrote.

And then the real Jim Phelps entered with a gun, and demanded that Ethan explain when he knew about Phelps» duplicitous plans.

He speaks of his mistrust of the adult world and, in the process, also reveals his blatantly duplicitous means of surviving adolescence — on his own terms.

The supporting cast is also solid, while the characterizations are well - rounded to the point where there are no clear villains — just duplicitous motives and ulterior schemes.

There is something duplicitous about licorice allsorts.

The ambassador is a nervous, cowardly, duplicitous liar, and therefore played by a British actor, Ben Kingsley.

Comparisons to the cartoonish brutality of Kick - Ass are inevitable, but where Matthew Vaughn's film played a wilfully duplicitous game, simultaneously condemning and celebrating its characters» violence, Gunn refuses outright to make anything about Frank's vigilante rampage seem slick, cool or sexy.

Nor, with respect, can I accept my colleague's suggestion that Parliament believed that if Treaty 8 Indians were exempted from provincial regulations if they killed an animal in self - defence, they would try to circumvent such regulations by making duplicitous claims to this effect.

«We either implement reports of previous conferences and committees or we keep producing duplicitous reports and wait for godot.»

In Pitch Black (2000), also known as The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black, antihero Richard B. Riddick — a convicted murderer whose eyes had been modified so he could see in the dark — fought off hordes of vicious flying shark - like shadow creatures on an alien planet while also battling the distrust and duplicitous behavior of his fellow crash - landing survivors.

That David is duplicitous comes as no surprise, but what is unexpected is the painful lack of solid action set pieces in the film.

Since Rachel McAdams (as Holmes» duplicitous former flame Irene) is dispensed with early on, Rapace is brought on to be the new heroine, but she's mostly directed to react and clomp about with Holmes and Watson.

Christian Gerhartsreiter took a more duplicitous approach.

Because I don't trust an an owner who has been so duplicitous from day one.

Learning professionals don't implement solutions in a vacuum so assigning a specific ROI to training appears duplicitous at best.

Man - made and natural disasters are magnets for scammers and hackers looking to take advantage of people's inclination to help or learn more, the agency warned, cautioning the public that «emails requesting donations from duplicitous charitable organizations commonly appear after major natural disasters.»

Professor Grants proved dictatorial and duplicitous when Otto «made interesting and reproducible findings,» the young scientist says.

With Steve Martin as a mysterious businessman, Ben Gazzara as Scott's boss, magician Ricky Jay as Scott's friend and Mamet's wife, Rebecca Pidgeon, as a possibly duplicitous secretary.

This mead - brained prequel to the more familiar version hits its target in the early action scenes and whenever the sharp, strong Maid Marion (a luminous Cate Blanchett) and the deliciously duplicitous Godfrey (scene - stealer Mark Strong of «Kick - Ass») are on screen.

Their guileless appearance, in tandem with a title that suggests something more duplicitous, urges the viewer to reflect on sameness and difference, and how time and aging affect one's worldview.

Wikipedia described such duplicitous activity as «sockpuppetry», where multiple user accounts are inappropriately used.

In short, I consider this «reality» show as must see TV which attempts to convince non-Muslim viewers of Muslim self - importance, moral superiority, and feigned persecution with every condescending word uttered by these hypocritical, duplicitous people.

Especially troubling to Jews is that Christian missionary efforts like Avodat Yisrael seem duplicitous.

An impassioned environmentalist (Krasinki's character) is as unappealing as Damon and his equally duplicitous partner, played by Frances McDormand.

Original filing of tax returns required reams of printing, photocopying, travelling, posting, and probable duplicitous filling of information.

This is at best mis - guided, at worse duplicitous.

Last year was a particularly bad one for Uber with its reputation tarnished by the company's acknowledgement of rampant sexual harassment within its ranks, a yearlong coverup of a major computer break - in, and the use of duplicitous software to thwart government regulators.

Virtual Income is nothing but another robot using duplicitous advertising to make affiliate commissions.

I will avoid Wasserstein's transparent bias and animus toward Arendt as a stylist; he criticizes matters that range from her «Teutonic style» to her «oracular prose» to her «half acknowledgment» or presumed duplicitous laundering of the efforts of Alfred Kazin.

Everyone knows this and for the author to ignore this fact either means he is incredibly inexperienced (troubling) or down right duplicitous (scandalous).