Sentences with phrase «from duplicitous»

«Max» is mostly about Max saving the Marine's younger brother (Josh Wiggins) and father (Thomas Haden Church) from his duplicitous former service buddy (Luke Kleintank) and his gun - dealing Mexican confederates.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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

Like beer goggles, politicians from opposing parties sometimes suffer a phenomenon called «actual goggles», where they're so blinded by the beauty of regeneration and collective endeavour that they forget they're working with that duplicitous clown Boris Johnson / New Labour - bot Tessa Jowell (delete as applicable).

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.

It also pays to examine closely what the duplicitous deeds really mean: from some vantage points, such behavior may actually support a hypocrite's point of view, significantly softening the hypocrisy charge in those cases.

The moment a duplicitous account reveals itself, the user and all posts are removed from the website immediately.

Crossing the line from citizen to criminal, Harold tangles with duplicitous business partners, Mexican drug lords, international mercenaries, and the DEA.

While Anon doesn't boast a superior story, it's engaging in the way many B - grade noir films from the «40s and «50s were — pulpy excursions into the dark side of human nature with hard - bitten heroes and duplicitous femmes fatale.

Marty and Jeannie launch a duplicitous plan to remove Lukas from DollaHyde.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

It is set up to fill in more information as to why the characters do what they do from a motivation standpoint, as well as to show just how intricate the connection between the police and triads are, where it seems everyone involved has a duplicitous nature.

Seeking to steel magic beans from the husband - and - wife thugs Jack and Jill, Puss (Antonio Banderas) and rival Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek) become caught up in a wild scheme masterminded by the duplicitous Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis).

Though Chris Weitz's script adds some perfunctory intrigue in the form of a duplicitous Grand Duke (Stellan Skarsgård) who conspires with Lady Tremaine to keep the prince from being with his true love, Cinderella hits all its expected marks — midnight flight, lost slipper, kingdom - wide podiatric investigation — like the good little brand extension it is.

Out of prison, Wilde had horrified his friends by resuming the destructive relationship with the exquisite, duplicitous Bosie (Colin Morgan), which causes the termination of the tiny allowance from his humiliated ex-wife Constance (Emily Watson) and endangers Bosie's own income, leaving them nothing to live on.

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.

Just in the way he can instantaneously shift his tone of voice from gruff whispers to charming low - speak on the CB radio to his female dispatcher (voiced by real - life wife Kyra Sedgwick), Bacon inhabits the Sheriff as a duplicitous character that fits right at home in a serpentine thriller such as this.

It adopts the same specious pretext that we're gazing deep into the dark American unconscious rather than catering to the audience's worst instincts; and it advances the same duplicitous claim that parody of excess is somehow different from plain old excess — a claim that becomes just another pretext for heaping on more.

As well, some of the duplicitous behaviour noted above by authors trying to game the system, has caused a backlash from Amazon in the form of review policy changes and even deleted reviews.

Research can be conducted with pretty good rigor, Bill, and the publications derived from that research can be duplicitous as all hell.

While that may ultimately prove to be an erroneous interpretation, being wrong is a far different thing from being duplicitous.

The last few weeks of living this sort of duplicitous watch life has made me think more about what I actually want from a wearable.