Sentences with phrase «on duplicitous»

My advice: never get a dog as revenge on your duplicitous husband.

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.

Sally Potter's The Party sets its sights on the duplicitous liberal elite, where venality hides behind paper - thin morals.

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Her Big Plan involves creating a worldwide problem, then offering a solution to said worldwide problem in exchange for the legitimization of her global business enterprises, but she doesn't count on a duplicitous American president (Bruce Greenwood) with a not - so - hidden draconian agenda of his own.

A discussion on duplicitous economics with Richard Wolff.

Not exact matches

Fear of losing some tenuous grip on power derived through duplicitous efforts has left us satisfied with scraps gained,» said Rosemary Rivera, of the group Citizen Action on New York.

He has clicked on my pouting and misleading photograph, read my evasive and duplicitous profile - «Lively and a few pounds overweight!»

As hardened, duplicitous real - estate broker Rick Carver, Shannon grants such horrors little more than a disinterested glance before taking a drag on his e-cigarette and moving on to the next victim.

Based on David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize winning play, Glengarry Glen Ross follows the duplicitous comings and goings of an office full of shifty real - estate hustlers (including Al Pacino's Ricky Roma, Ed Harris» Dave Moss, and Jack Lemmon's Shelley Levene) over the course of a hectic 24 - hour period - with the admittedly thin storyline set into motion by a slick upper - management type's proclamation that the men will lose their jobs if their work doesn't improve.

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.

At the point of departure, we find Tris on the run with her boyfriend Four (Theo James), her brother Caleb (Ansel Elgort) and the duplicitous Peter Hayes (Miles Teller).

Smith impresses early on by slowly teasing the reveals: the duplicitous Howard, the revelation of missing parts, the full - on transformation.

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.

Our lead is aided by a mysterious male figure on a motorcycle, their duplicitous dealings painted starkly.

Since Rachel McAdams (as Holmes» duplicitous former flame Irene) is dispensed with early on, Rapace is brought on to be the new heroine, but she's mostly directed to react and clomp about with Holmes and Watson.

Regardless of its duplicitous intent and inevitable destination, I found The Act of Killing, which has dominated many of the critics awards including those of my own Online Film Critics Society, repugnant for the spotlight it turned on unrepentant mass murders.

Glenn, on the other hand, is convincingly duplicitous, but the performance isn't enough to get you to ignore the film's many holes and troublingly patchy logic.

This sounds duplicitous on Violet's part, but it is not.

To achieve that goal, they look inward at their own cells, where the one - time «King of the Counterfeiters» lies prisoner, using his duplicitous talents merely for portrait painting on behalf of the prison guards.

Along the way, the duo gets caught up in a plot to kill Penny's adoptive father (Steve Tom) by his duplicitous trophy wife (Laurie Holden) and groundskeeper (Rob Riggle), who are after the scientist's large inheritance, including a mystery box that he's entrusted to Harry and Lloyd to deliver to a TED - like science conference where Penny is accepting an award on his behalf.

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.

In Pitch Black (2000), also known as The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black, antihero Richard B. Riddick — a convicted murderer whose eyes had been modified so he could see in the dark — fought off hordes of vicious flying shark - like shadow creatures on an alien planet while also battling the distrust and duplicitous behavior of his fellow crash - landing survivors.

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.

This mead - brained prequel to the more familiar version hits its target in the early action scenes and whenever the sharp, strong Maid Marion (a luminous Cate Blanchett) and the deliciously duplicitous Godfrey (scene - stealer Mark Strong of «Kick - Ass») are on screen.

He asserted, ``... where some of America's best public schools educating some of America's blackest and most disadvantaged kids are concerned, the NAACP's duplicitous engagement of black folks on the issue of charter schools is the worst kind of betrayal.»

Shakespeare's Prospero could have been thinking of a mid-engine Lamborghini, instead of the duplicitous Caliban, when he said, «A devil, a born devil on whose nature nurture can never stick.»

The stock, after being exposed for duplicitous accounting practices, sits at 14 cents per share on July 1, 2016.

Yes, listed companies aren't perfect either — but at least on an exchange, over-hyped stocks (with rapacious & duplicitous management) tend to be far easier to spot & avoid — at least for investors with a modicum of common sense.

He speaks of his mistrust of the adult world and, in the process, also reveals his blatantly duplicitous means of surviving adolescence — on his own terms.

Through chalk, charcoal, or soap on concrete walls or gallery floors, a light bulb or a bucket, a piano or chairs, bicycles or vinyls become almost duplicitous in his performances and animations, commenting on and destabilizing social and political structures through a poetic lens.

A big, crudely painted marble - effect 3 - D model Loos House, based on the interior of Adolf Loos's house, occupies the centre of the display, and the ghost of Loos, with his modernist creed «Ornamentation and Crime» signalling a moral battlecry against superfluous decoration and «style», appears here to wag a duplicitous finger.

Shedding light on persuasive, performative and often duplicitous identities, as well as on architectural objects and history, the work explores the relationship between man and monument as they coexist in the landscape as representations of one another.

Regardless of what may very likely prove duplicitous in motive toward improving life on this planet, it's at least setting the stage for more ambitious change, isn't it?

In fact, Markey was counting on Republicans to vote against the ban, as that allegedly would expose them as duplicitous shills who care only about oil industry profits, not about reducing dependence on OPEC or alleviating pain at the pump.

When top science organisations like the Met Office have shown themselves duplicitous as a matter of policy, then all legislation created on the back of this fraud is automatically null and void.