Sentences with phrase «elaborate ruse»

Once and for all: The «rumor» that Chelsea Clinton might not be getting married in Rhinebeck as some sort of elaborate ruse to send us all on a wild goose chase as she weds on, say, Martha's Vineyard, is simply not true.
But lunch together only escalates matters, since Palmer subsequently insists on meeting their kids, too, which leads to a more elaborate ruse involving Katherine's children (Griffin Gluck and Bailee Madison).
Yet in another way, it's curiously convoluted: rather than go to Candie's place in Mississippi and buy (or steal) Broomhilda, Schultz convinces Django that a more elaborate ruse is required.
The firm had put a 50 % down payment on the show, but when Ross went to collect the balance, he encountered «an elaborate ruse» to avoid payment that had been cooked up by the promoter and Starvox's Mexican bank manager.
As City A.M.'s Brian Monteith warns, however, it is all an elaborate ruse, «a highly choreographed EU dance»:
Maybe it's all some elaborate ruse and the State Dept. will actually deport him once he's there.
The long - since - departed Fritz Peterson was a master of the art; Lyle's admiration for his talents is self - evident, as reflected in his account of an elaborate ruse Peterson pulled on Thurman Munson involving a mail - order gun holster.
The Sting won Oscars while fooling its audience into thinking Paul Newman and Robert Redford's grifters have been shot dead — except it was actually part of an elaborate ruse to get back at their nemesis.
Unsure whether it's foul play or just another elaborate ruse, the two are unprepared for what they discover.
For the elaborate ruse to succeed, CIA...
Constantly speaking in code, the two fall in love with one another as themselves, but never drop the elaborate ruse of their undercover identities.
However, the mistake Focus makes is that before an elaborate ruse can be perpetrated on an Oriental gambler (B.D.Wong) Nicky's gang revel in ripping off normal tourists who just happen to be in town for the game.
With dad no longer on the scene, she's been pretending he's off around the world working as a jolly sailor, and has been keeping up an elaborate ruse involving taking all of the kid's numerous letters and writing back to him herself.
The elaborate ruse is put at risk, however, after Carrie is approached by Brody's desperate wife, Jessica (Morena Baccarin).
Schultz and Django plan an elaborate ruse by which to acquire Broomhilda legally and without suspicion.
The set pictures haven't been just an elaborate ruse to torture us.
He calls himself «the Butcher» when he shows up at an underground fight club in an elaborate ruse to catch the attention of his first victim.
But the trailer contained undeniable hints that the game was actually related to the Metal Gear Solid series, and Kojima, a master of misdirection, confirmed months later that it had all been an elaborate ruse he had planned for two years.
Showing and Telling: The «Outburst Writing» Activity Colin Bridgewater, who teaches at The American School in London (London, England), submitted this lesson in which he stages an elaborate ruse in order to teach kids an important lesson in good writing.
London armed robbers arrived outside Graff Jewelers on Sloan Street in a chauffeur driven Bentley Flying Spur, all part of an elaborate ruse, which included dapper clothing, to give them the appearance of wealth and fit in with the store's clientele.
On The New Yorker's book blog, Macy Halford suggests the possibility that the author (his real name is Quentin Rowan) had planned an «elaborate ruse» all along.
It's really so over-the-top, that I have to wonder if she's serious, or if this is some elaborate ruse to make the fanboys and fangirls out there.
The first few hours of Binary Domain are rough — rough enough that you might be thinking that playing Binary Domain is an elaborate ruse.
Celebrity DJ Deadmau5 trolls the Internet and Sony in an elaborate ruse that had many believing he had lost his PS Vita demo unit after Spike's Video Game Awards show.
Let's be entirely clear here: Even though this looks like Hayter is absolutely not involved in the latest video game, it's not outside the realm of possibility that Hideo Kojima would pull an elaborate ruse like this in order to make us think, for whatever reason, that he's not returning.
After a second spell in prison — an elaborate ruse this time to get himself out of this conscription in the Pioneer Corps — Eduardo Paolozzi enrolled at the Slade School of Art in London.
Cooper carried out elaborate ruses to demonstrate his powers, including placing a dead crow on the doorstep of the Robinson home and arranging for a police officer to feign illness during a fake traffic stop of Ms. Robinson.
So was this hack a bid by fiat currency diehards to undermine confidence in Bitcoin or maybe an elaborate ruse for someone to snap up a bunch of Bitcoins on the cheap?
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