Sentences with phrase «schemer tyrion»

Waiting until your boss is around before showing off your knowledge or sharing your expertise is unlikely to go down well with colleagues — and they will start to resent you as being a schemer.

The actual billing target is not known, but one vac schemer confirmed it was firm policy and understood that research they had been charged out [sic].

(The DBR notes Loumiet has made headlines in the past through his role advising now - defunct Hamilton Bank; we've previously reported on Loumiet and Greenberg Traurig's role advising former client and alleged Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford.)

And before I get a slew of e-mails pointing out the obvious, let me say that I am intentionally skipping the headline - topping misbehaving lawyers who have already had more than their share of the spotlight in 2009 — lawyer turned powerhouse - defendant Marc Dreier, Florida lawyer and accused Ponzi - schemer Scott Rothstein, and misbehaving federal judges Samuel Kent of Texas and Thomas Porteus Jr. of Louisiana.

Since every vacation schemer is a potential trainee, the firm takes the decision about who to accept very seriously.

The strategy that has been attributed to Madoff is the opposite of that of the typical Ponzi schemer: it is to obtain investments from well - off people far more financially sophisticated than the average Ponzi victim, including genuine financial experts such as hedge fund managers and bank officials.

Scott Rothstein, now - accused Ponzi schemer extraordinaire, carted me around town in his Bentley Continental, stopping first at a local elementary school, where we met with Governor Charlie Crist, after he gave a short press conference.

I no longer believe he's some sort of Machiavellian schemer.

The schemer of the brushstroke feels akin to the quality of what Emmett Till's flesh must have been like as it came out of the water.

In execution, the writing is supposed to serve as character exposition and to arouse a sense of suspicion, but since the interchanges don't signal the schemer, players won't he hanging on every word.

Players control seven girls over the course of their year on Bhikkhuni; the obsessively - attached sisters Rinka and Renka, the ninja-esque war - child Momo, underlying schemer Mana, the self - proclaimed «Elite» Viola and rival ace - student Koharu, and the offbeat food - crazed Manpukumaru - chan.

Are you a diplomat, a schemer or a fighter..?

We are going to use the Grieving Rottweiler as our example here — not to say that the owner of that dog (who is asking dog lovers to help him buy a house so he can rescue more dogs) is a scammer or a schemer, but only because his fundraising drive, as explained by him, is so full of conflicting information, question marks and red flags.

The schemer can get the action going by buying heavily into a stock that trades on low volume, which usually pumps up the price.

The infamous case of Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff was an ominous reminder that yes, there are unscrupulous money managers out there.

Reformed schemer and middle schooler Jackson Greene comes out of retirement, assembling a top - notch team to pull off Maplewood Middle School's biggest con ever in a fast - paced caper.

Reformed schemer and middle - schooler Jackson Greene comes out of retirement, assembling a top - notch team to pull off Maplewood Middle School's biggest con ever in this fast - paced caper.

But life among the little women isn't all bearing up under adversity, even if the March girls lack the guile of Becky Sharp, the peerless schemer in Thackeray's «Vanity Fair.»

The fangs are fully bared when failure represents the rapid descent of an audacious schemer with a giant ego; this despite the fact that we all know that one must have an impossible will if he is to believe he can start his own car company, lo these last hundred and twenty years or so.

As the face of the social - Darwinist wing of the local charter movement, she's been cast as the grim reaper of moribund neighborhood schools, a witting tool of privatizing billionaires, and a Machiavellian schemer with her sights set on the mayoralty.

You expect good acting from a cast like this, and the leads do not disappoint, but the most pleasant surprise is watching Tom Hiddleston transform Loki from the meek schemer in «Thor» into a venomous powder keg of ego run amok.

Me, I would have loved to have seen her variation on the schemer known as Amazing Amy.

Thandie Newton plays Condoleezza Rice as a birdlike twit; Jeffrey Wright gives Colin Powell the compromised dignity of a man who realizes — too late — that he has cast his lot with thieves; Richard Dreyfuss» smirking Cheney is a cold hearted schemer who loves only oil; and nerdy Toby Jones enacts Karl Rove as a perverse policy wonk who gets a kick out of his Machiavellian brainstorms.

Actor Peter Dinklage, who portrays schemer Tyrion Lannister, noted, «I know how important the Red Wedding is to so many fans of the show and the books, but we pick up the pieces and top it in many ways.»

Kendrick, whose character is haplessly nursing a broken heart, and Plaza, who is more of an all - purpose schemer, are particularly charming in their freedom to act like dummies and subvert the usual «nice girl» of a wedding - centric romantic comedy.

A vicious schemer here, she portrays something new here, bringing a freshness to the film, elevating it above an average work.

That's true, mostly, of the sneering Machiavellian schemer...

He's not only a corrupt schemer but lascivious as they come, which spells bad news for Cassia (Emily Browning), the pouty - lipped daughter of wealthy merchant Lucretius (Jared Harris) and his wife Aurelia (Carrie - Anne Moss).

But it's a kick to watch a Ponzi - schemer get his.

Hawke plays Iachimo, who is dubbed «The Schemer» in this character piece, and Badgley plays «The Hero» Posthumus.

Sometimes Weisz will hint Rachel is a schemer.

Almodóvar's main criticism is class - based: The economy class is drugged while the business class passengers (an assassin, a Ponzi schemer, a dominatrix named Ms. Take) get wasted and screw around.

The chief schemer is Chertkov (Giamatti), his intense follower, who idealistically believes Tolstoy should leave his literary fortune to the Russian people.

Already an esteemed figure on the London stage during the 1980s — his 1986 performance as the seductive schemer Valmont in Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses was hailed as an all - time West End and Broadway great — Rickman achieved global success as a film actor relatively late in life, following his memorable turn as terrorist Hans Gruber in 1988's Die Hard opposite Bruce Willis.

Unfortunately for Josh and his employees, Shaw turns out to be a Ponzi schemer who may as well be called «Ernie Badoff.»

Chip is a self - serving schemer who pretends to be the soul of generosity, and he uses his disability to maddening advantage.

Wendell Baker is a Texas schemer whose latest gig finds him selling official - looking driver's licenses, complete with holographic touches, to illegal Mexican immigrants.

And Matthew McConaughey was on hand, too, to tease the gritty period piece «White Boy Rick,» in which he plays a hustler and a schemer and all - around bad, but well - meaning dad to a teenage boy who ends up becoming an undercover FBI informant.

Gripping the whip with appalling pleasure is John, who seduces the lady of the house into his bed as a boyish dreamer desperate for a taste of the finer things, then reveals himself to be a petty schemer who wants only what he can't have.

As photographed by John Bailey — at the time, the go - to cinematographer for Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Cat People, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, Light Of Day)-- the city's streets, restaurants, back rooms, and lofts are as much a character as Charlie and Paulie, a dreamer and a schemer trying to get ahead in a world where the chips are stacked against them.

Dramatizing this revealing episode in the history of American dynastic politics and political theater, director John Curran (The Painted Veil, Stone) portrays Senator Kennedy (Jason Clarke) as half stooge of his family legacy, half schemer, equally paralyzed by ego and insecurity.

That said, the performances are excellent, with Julianne Moore fully deserving her Best Actress gong at Cannes for her portrayal of a disturbed, insecure but utterly ruthless schemer.

«You can't help liking him even if he is a criminal,» said co-star Julie Adams in the post-screening Q&A, noting the natural charm Curtis brought to the part of inveterate schemer Jerry Florea.

Barnum, the son of a poor tailor, grows up to become a wily dreamer and schemer played with full - throated energy by Jackman, who attacks his upper vocal register with the freedom of someone who has no immediate plans to play Wolverine again.

Kushner and Spielberg largely refrain from showing the famous speeches and give us the political schemer, the persuader, the teller of bawdy barnyard stories, the gentle father and husband, and the fiercely insistent leader who will not accept a Confederate surrender without the absolute abolition of slavery.

Dealt this and other genre - worn techniques, the viewer is manipulated into believing Joshua is a diabolical schemer and not a confused though crafty pre-adolescent.

Hess assembles a perfect cast to bring such impulses to life: Masterminds works best if you can let yourself get high off the secondary fumes supplied by a spaced - out Kate McKinnon as a casually cruel fiancée, or an aggro Owen Wilson as a trailer - park schemer.

Bang's the biggest schemer behind the heist and often provides some hilarious and shocking moments.

Kate Beckinsale excels as the movie's high - born 18th - century schemer, anchoring a spin on classic literature that's fresh and deliciously rotten at the same time.

Though they're an otherwise friendly group, the Boxtrolls have been forced into hiding after a villainous schemer named Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley) used the disappearance of a local baby as a way to convince the townspeople that the Boxtrolls are dangerous monsters who eat children.