Sentences with phrase «machinations within»

Throughout his book, Brogan provides a riveting account of the events in France before and after the revolution, the manner in which Tocqueville's family and friends responded to those events, and the psychological machinations within Tocqueville himself as he faced the agonizing transformation of his beloved France.

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In a Twitter discussion with Intercept founder Glenn Greenwald, Tufekci argued that these mass leaks often contain internal machinations and gossip from within a campaign, which might be interesting from a historical context, but don't really have any larger news or social value.

Or a bizarre cult, with all the machinations and power struggles consuming it from within.

Trewin traced Alan's journey from being selected for Plymouth Devonport, through his machinations and membership of the Monday Club - he joined not only because it was within his political comfort zone but because he saw it as useful in achieving his political ambitions.

Together, they fight against the tyrannical machinations of Emperor Griffin within the past, present, and future while rebuilding the world in the process.

Now that all is said and done, I get a phone call that the shit I have been writing on the machinations of the art world has inspired a TV show; I hope that a) I get some credit, i.e. the monetary variety; b) it has the chutzpah of Tony Shafrazi exhibiting his very own art within his very own booth with full knowledge he'd be thrown out on his ass next year as a consequence; and, c) that it doesn't suck as much as Tony's show did.

Despite the loss of separation and individuality of the two different subcultures during the machinations of the commodification of Culture, this particular Graffuturist group exhibition, as well as the previous two, are significant steps in acknowledging the sub-subculture of Progressive Graffiti, and then defining and maintaining an understanding of it within Graffiti culture and mass Culture.

Perhaps the communal face of corruption, as we define it, already existed within the ranks of the «gate - keepers», waiting to be rewarded by the truly greedy by turning a blind eye to their illegal, but highly profitable, manipulative machinations of a so - called self - righting / self - sustaining financial system.