Sentences with phrase «machinations going»

While all of us knew there were machinations going on, none of us knew the extent.

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After the recent stock market crash, Batra claims that Greenspan went back to his old machinations to create even more debt.

The machinations these people go through to cover for religious absurdity after absurdity is entertaining.

As with queso and all of the machinations vegans go through to create a Mexican cheese sauce causing me to wonder, «Why not just melt vegan cheese with Rotel tomatoes?

I'm fed up with Theo's machinations and frankly if he goes it may prompt a whole new flurry of significant new players heading in different directions.

As much fun as it may be to tweak the nose of a sitting governor, Democrats need an agenda that goes beyond the machinations of the political class, even in New York.

Labour's woes are not all the product of the machinations of the mainstream media (who are not going to change their ways) or the parliamentary party (who are not a homogenous bloc).

All the machinations you have to go through just to get a profile was ridiculous.

There's a conversation, a serious one, to be had about fracking, about the machinations of energy corporations, about capitalism — but it's rich that these wealthy white guys think the best way to go about inspiring debate is by presenting straw men at play in the heart of hicksploitation U.S.A..

By refusing to fragment the pace with frequent cuts, Warmerdam creates a sense of everything going exactly as planned; there is a kind of sinister clockwork in Borgman's machinations, as if each new scene were the next page in a dark fairy tale that's already been written.

Particularly entertaining is Minnie Driver's deliciously hammy turn as Carlotta, the Opera Populaire's resident diva whose star takes a tumble thanks to Christine's rising star and the Phantom's machinations; credit also must go to Margaret Preece, who provides Carlotta's amusingly overblown, ear - piercing vocals.

It's at first at coy device, though it becomes less so as the series goes in its machinations from D.C. abstracts to grounded details, ones involving the Teachers Union, a powerful oil lobbyist and former colleague named Remy (Mahershala Ali), Claire's water nonprofit and an ambitious blogger named Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara) who develops a mutually beneficial relationship with Underwood.

For most of the film's running time, Lincoln depicts the political machinations that went on during Lincoln's push to bring slavery to an end.

The plot machinations of the early going do feel like just that as so many things seem to magically fall into place for DJay's transformation — the keyboard; a spontaneous run - in with Key (Anthony Anderson), an old acquaintance and sound engineer who then takes him to a soul - stirring church choir performance — in an almost implausibly pat manner.

Given that many have spent the past two years intensely speculating, theorizing, and predicting the character and plot machinations of the film, it's hard not to think some expectations were set going in that, as it turns out, The Last Jedi filmmakers had no intention (and had made no promise) of meeting.

No one is as adept as Steven Soderbergh in making a caper film and utilizing all the machinations that go with it.

Now in its fifth season, Showtime's timely, chilling series once again unspooled slowly, creating tension not only from the machinations of U.S. and German intelligence officials, but also from the bleak truth, as Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) avers, that the so - called «War on Terror» isn't going to end anytime soon.

Spielberg and his screenwriting team relish conveying the machinations that went into the deal - making, demonstrating how uneasy political times led to finessed, chesslike maneuvering to retrieve spies in an intense trade - off at Glienicke Bridge in 1962.

Grenouille is as manipulative and calculating as any character in the pages of Gone Girl, and the results of his machinations are shocking.

Is what goes on in the booths of BEA so much different than the machinations in the war rooms of the NFL, where team owners place multi-million-dollar bets on unknown kids in cleats?

Sure, Princess Zelda has been imprisoned in crystal, the land of Hyrule overun by monsters, and the very fate of the world threatened by the power - hungry machinations of the evil lord Ganondorf, but it's not like those chickens are going to catch themselves.

At the very least there will be lots of shooting Nazis and their fictional machinations and apparently some dark dimension stuff going on as Matt so kindly told us all in his eyes - on.

There's a near - silent protagonist who's going through high school, while working against the machinations of unseen forces following a game's key theme.

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Though the scheme quickly unraveled, it highlighted once again the lengths to which climate alarmists will go to keep the true nature of their political machinations secret.

I'll be curious to see what machinations Salby goes through to explain that (if indeed he mentions it at all — it will be rather telling if he does not).

If they are not feeling pressure from those clients («client's aren't asking for it» is the subject for next post) and if market machinations are not affecting their wallets, how much attention are they really going to devote to what appear to be other people's problemsproblems.

Only those who think that they can control human nature via economic machinations from on high change, from true believers, to disenchanted, confused, former bureacrats as they mull over what went wrong with the world.