Sentences with phrase «of devious»

I was rung by countless of their devious agents with one though in mind.

In the trouble for Lichen he suggested «This is not the age of reason, this is the age of flummery, and the day of the devious approach.

Nik; Nietzsche's phrase «instinctive mistrust of devious thinking» is a fine description of true skepticism.

I'm fascinated that he is now accusing RealClimate authors of writing in a «passive» manner, like it is some kind of devious technique.

Her latest exhibition, at Marlborough Fine Art, is a triple bill: pastels inspired by Manuel II, a series based on The Relic, the 1887 novel by José Maria Eça de Queirós which tells the story of the devious Teodorico Raposo and his visit to the Holy Land, and a set of watercolours for a new version of the folk story Stone Soup by her daughter, Caroline Willing (published by Enitharmon Press).

Hordes of devious enemies!

Monster Max, on the other hand, has long levels with at least a dozen or two rooms full of devious puzzles that can block your progress at any point, which are exacerbated by these design choices.

Combine shit - tastic jumping physics that literally send you sailing, often uncontrollably, into the arms of a waiting enemy, with a plethora of devious, asshole enemies that all seem to have the advantage on you (except maybe the zombies), and that's an equation for gaming madness.

In this narrative - driven adventure, conquer 600 + screens of hardcore platforming full of devious secrets.

Test your wits against a variety of devious and strange challenges in this lush and bewildering puzzle game.

Most would agree that Black Desert has better minute - to - minute gameplay, but we haven't seen it create the kind of devious politics, epic wars, and shocking heists that have come to define EVE Online.

Eight players can compete in the same galaxy, and of course there's potential for all sorts of devious alliances.

The tune tells a tale of a devious mastermind bent on controlling players through arcade machines — truly, a story that passes the test of time.

Take on each of the devious Deadly Six in dynamic boss battles which test all of Sonic's moves and power - ups.

The core gameplay mechanic is to lure in mercenaries ranging from sword wielders to gun toting nuns, and then set up all sorts of devious traps to hurt their feelings with.

Hell's Prison, posted on Reddit, is just one of thousands of devious, depressing prisons concocted by Prison Architect players.

The single - player portion of Portal 2 introduces a cast of dynamic new characters, a host of fresh puzzle elements, and a much larger set of devious test chambers.

The large maps, and the zoomed out view, really make you feel like Batman navigating a sequence of devious traps.

A crew of devious space pirates and their equally villainous captain set out on a quest to acquire a marvelous treasure from lore; known only to lay deep within the Abyss (A section of space not yet explored).

Then, in a grand finale conclusion, one of our devious daredevils flirts with death, working to outsmart a strait jacket while suspended upside - down by the ankles from a three - story aerial rigging.»

More than that, it's about two very different young men who, together, stick it right up a pair of devious old codgers, make themselves a fortune, and curry favour with the audience in the process.

Take on each of the devious Deadly Six in dynamic boss battles which test all of Sonic's moves and power - ups.

What's more, Anne is also the apple of the eye of the devious Marquis de Lauzon (Tim Roth), an aide to the king.

On the surface «monster movie» is about a lonely young woman who strikes up an unlikely relationship with a mysterious sea creature — much to the chagrin of the devious government agents in charge of its captivity.

Amanda is full of devious plans and dark ideas; she blackmails a drug dealer Tim (the late, Anton Yelchin, of Star Trek fame who passed away shortly after making this film) to do the deed.

I don't think a lot of devious monster have their prisoners sing rock anthems but he does here.

Make sure to tune in to the finale of Devious Maids — starring Ana Ortiz, Dania Ramirez, Roselyn Sanchez, and Judy Reyes — tonight at 9 / 8c on Lifetime.

What's worse, the fact that the film plays upon long - held notions of devious behavior amongst trans people only deepens the divide between audience and subject.

All of that is threatened with the arrival of a devious new science teacher, Professor P (Nick Kroll), who wants to devise a way to stop children from laughing (at him and his embarrassing surname, mostly).

But Velicer points out that the clumps of spores are sticky, so the spores of devious bacteria could easily glom onto another strain and take advantage of it.

So a team of researchers led by Romina Scardamaglia, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Buenos Aires, decided to use new radio - tracking technology to snoop on two kinds of devious cowbirds in Argentina.

I wish to assure the Public and the NDC fraternity worldwide once again, that this story is emanating from the disgraceful conduct of devious and crooked political detractors and it has no resemblance to any iota of truth as the facts show.

I would agree that in the hands of the devious or the non too bright it can be used to defy common sense by replacing it with high falutin nonsense, and it is pointless to try and reason with those who use it that way.

And this I did, my friends; this I did, sprinting out of the house in the direction of church, mostly thrilled at the success of my devious plan thus far, but with a tiny dark roil somewhere near my spleen or gall bladder; and headlong went I through the little alley behind the Murphys» house, and toward the small bedraggled woods behind the firehouse, not even a forest but more like an overgrown vacant lot.

On the contrary, in all its forms and in each of its devious paths, anti-Semitism is a radical denial of Christianity.

I think it is a bit of devious framing to say one has to «foresake» the bible in order to become more progressive.

That statement shows up some of the devious traits of personality.

We'd conquered the globe and retreated again, so the world knew that a clipped English accent was the voice of devious colonisation.

Not exact matches

But this year he has quietly introduced less obvious — some might even say devious — methods of making credit more expensive to access.

Much like Paul, he was a strict constitutionalist, and believed that «devious government intervention in the economic affairs of the nation... [were] not contemplated by the men who wrote the constitution.»

Many other players have focused on devising the most devious of levels, but someone under the username Trousers has built a working computer that will literally school other gamers.

They could use the blockchain to incentivise the sale of data, meaning they could reduce the need to carry out the devious actions that have got them in the mess they currently find themselves in.

The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious...

The new generation is going to put an end to this devious monetary deception and all of the old «Champagne Socialists» sitting in the front of the aircraft debating the horrors of capitalism with two bankers and a parliamentary aide while sipping on bubbly, feet up and caviar on the side table, are ALL in for a very rude awakening.

Clinton's personal lawyer, Robert S. Bennett, got sworn statements from three doctors denying any «abnormalities in terms of size, shape, direction, or whatever Bennett felt a devious mind might suspect,» Bob Woodward writes in his book Shadow.

Your history is about to see the bright light of day and the devious founders of your false religion are about to be exposed and it will come from within your own organization.

No, what I love is the 20 + pages of vitriol from atheist trolls, who claim that all Christians are simultaneously both devious egomaniacs intent on forcing their will on an innocent world populace and fools and sheep with no will of their own.

At the same time, women's resentment at being used gives rise in them to feelings of hostility which may prompt them to manipulate their husbands in devious ways and to exercise over their children a dominance that harms the latter psychologically.

In fact, of course, Naboth's vineyard, adjacent to US property, is a global phenomenon, and in devious ways we twist the circumstances to fit the charge, or misinterpret the charge to justify murder and possession - «Naboth cursed God and the king!»

Unless we are in effect to abandon all attempts to talk about God as such (a form of apophatic theology which Neville's position seems to favor), the «devious analogy» to which he refers is so devious that it is hard to distinguish it from equivocation or even fraudulent misrepresentation.