Sentences with phrase «duplicitous comes»

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

Based on David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize winning play, Glengarry Glen Ross follows the duplicitous comings and goings of an office full of shifty real - estate hustlers (including Al Pacino's Ricky Roma, Ed Harris» Dave Moss, and Jack Lemmon's Shelley Levene) over the course of a hectic 24 - hour period - with the admittedly thin storyline set into motion by a slick upper - management type's proclamation that the men will lose their jobs if their work doesn't improve.

Not exact matches

Thus when late moderns come across, say, St. Anselm's famous phrase «fides quaerens intellectum» (faith seeking understanding), they are often predisposed to see it at best as slightly duplicitous, at worst as expressing a somewhat contemptible ambition: the aspiration of an irrational passion (fervent, tender, fierce) to the dignity of a rational conviction (cold, adamantine, calm).

Now even that is beginning to fade, as his opponents have come increasingly to regard him as arrogant and duplicitous.

And it's all but certain the attempt to fill that void will come in the form of Better Call Saul, which will follow the adventures of Walter White's shifty, duplicitous but occasionally vaguely admirable lawyer, Saul Goodman.

The Lib Dems, rather unsurprisingly, come out of the book looking shifty and duplicitous.

The announcement comes just days after Nassau Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs, in a letter to county Democrats, criticized Maragos by saying he had a «manipulative and duplicitous side» and warning that his victory in a primary would put Democratic values «at risk.»

In the Daily Mirror he writes: «Today I will set out how Labour will be the last line of defence in your community for the NHS - an NHS now coming under sustained attack from Mr Cameron and his duplicitous Tory - led Government.

Caffeine freak critters, duplicitous raccoons, a highly talented cast and Bill Shatner in overacting overdrive — it's like coming out of hibernation and waking in an animator's playground.

The latest in his ongoing series of duplicitous attempts to get Daisy Ridley to reveal Last Jedi plot details has come out, and he has called in no higher authority than Dame Judi Dench for help.

As night comes down and the soldier attempts get back to the army base, Hook's disorientating odyssey brings him into contact with Unionist and Republican paramilitary units, as well duplicitous forces stoking the flames of conflict, waging their own dirty war.

There isn't a moment, either, when Weiner comes clean about his duplicitous acts or admits some sort of deep character flaw: He simply expects you to take him at face value and let his work — not his personal dalliances — define him.

There he proves no match for his tough sheriff brother Dan (James Badge Dale), let alone the villainous outlaw Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner, acting with a prosthetic harelip) or duplicitous civic leader Cole (Tom Wilkinson), who stands to make a killing when the railroad comes through.

But with great leads, skillful direction, and solid supporting performances by Amy Adams, whose character represents the balance between her natural demeanor of kindness and the learned skills of a newfound disciplinarian, and Viola Davis, whose one powerhouse scene impressed enough to garner her an Academy Award nomination, Doubt still runs on all cylinders professionally in delivering a solid musing on the duplicitous power of faith and doubt, faith coming from the heart and doubt from the mind.

But, of course, that isn't what they've asked for, and while I * think * that's what they had in mind — because I can't believe that the Benchers and the LSUC's equity officers are either ignorant of the actual text of the Rules and the Code or so duplicitous that they would intentionally mislead members — that's an interpretation that has been reinforced by precisely nothing substantive that's come out of the LSUC since this new requirement was announced.