Sentences with phrase «duplicitous when»

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

Not exact matches

When tasked with translating someone whose words they find reprehensible, translators can feel inauthentic, disingenuous and duplicitous.

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).

Dana should be called out when he is being duplicitous, a jackass, or attacking his fighters.

In his last Commons appearance as acting LibDem leader, Vince Cable said that the Prime Minister had been «incompetent» for not organising his diary so that he could attend the Lisbon signing, or «discourteous» for not having tried or «duplicitous» for trying to have a halfway house of signing when noone else was there.

The plot thickens when a group of corrupt local - government officials, in league with Marcia's duplicitous fiance Carter Andrews (Craig Stevens), use underhanded methods to force the honest Wilson out of business.

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

Much of Foster's performance is hidden in his face — the duplicitous shifting of his eyes, the emotionless stoicism of his cheeks and brow, and the pencil - thin twinge of his mouth when angered.

Of course, the situation provides an outlet for Miles Teller's duplicitous and increasingly irritating comic relief Peter to resort to his usual snarkiness when crimson raindrops start to fall: «What, now the sky is bleeding?»

It's one thing to go into the backstory of how and why a typically bright and cheery fairy can be horribly hardened by heartbreak at the hands of the duplicitous love of her life (the king / Aurora's father, played as an adult by Sharlto Copley), but it's quite another to completely softpedal any sinister sentiment, which is more or less what occurs as Maleficent warms up to Aurora as she grows up into a perky and pure hearted teen (Elle Fanning, sleepwalking when not sleeping) who believes the mysterious, ever - lurking figure to be her fairy godmother.

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.

That's problematic when key undramatized events include a Soho club's 17 - year - old singing sensation Silver Johnny (Tom Rhys Harries) being kidnapped, scenes of sexual manipulation, duplicitous behavior and two murders.

Shakespeare's Prospero could have been thinking of a mid-engine Lamborghini, instead of the duplicitous Caliban, when he said, «A devil, a born devil on whose nature nurture can never stick.»

Perhaps there are times when the good end outweighs the duplicitous beginning; regardless of intention.

When top science organisations like the Met Office have shown themselves duplicitous as a matter of policy, then all legislation created on the back of this fraud is automatically null and void.