Sentences with phrase «schemer who»

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.

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.

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.

Perhaps the best comparison, though, is to Cesc Fabregas; another wonderfully - gifted midfield schemer who has struggled to find a home under Antonio Conte, and often needs the formation changing to 3 -5-2 to accommodate him.

He became a kind of entrepreneurial schemer who continuously had to develop new, fundable ideas in order to keep the money on the table for his major preoccupation — the movable - type press.

Or a schemer who has learned so much at the feet of the master that she's played the game more successfully than her master ever did?

Dogs have been labeled as devious schemers who try to boss you around, so you are encouraged to be very tough and rigid in your interactions with them.

'' [West and Zampella] morphed from valued, responsible executives into insubordinate and self - serving schemers who attempted to hijack Activision's assets for their own personal gain,»

Greenfield warns lawyers who are anxiously sitting by silent telephones to avoid falling for the flawg pitches of «the smiling marketers, the SEO salesmen, the schemers who claim they have big money cases just waiting for you to sign onto their network.

In 1883, the Supreme Court railed against «speculative schemers who make it their business to watch the advancing wave of improvement and gather its foam in the form of patented monopolies, which enable them to lay a heavy tax.»

Not exact matches

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Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein won't get any reduction in his 50 - year federal prison sentence despite arguing he deserved one for cooperating with the feds, who say he lied to them, a judge ruled Monday.

In fact, here is what one commentator said: «Here is a woman who is willing to stay in Persia and sleep with a heathen king, rather than to return to Israel and become the wife of a godly Israelite — she is a schemer and a manipulator.

Real Madrid have no answer to Wolfsburg closing them down as they marked their strong directness offensive playing because Real Madrid appeared not to have schemers and wrigglers who can take on Wolfsburg defenders and scheme or wriggle pass them centrally and wingly to size their goalkeeper up.

Schemer, playmaker, football artiste, he is a sublime one - off who continues to provide the X-factor in Pellegrini's side.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Then, like the schemers in The Producers who want to ensure their show is a flop, they set out to antagonize the critics, who might have been able to help them promote their movie.

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

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.

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.»

Question, are publishers «schemers» «taking advantage of people who want to feel good about allowing others to read their writings» or are they reasonable people who want to help someone to get ahead?

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.

Eco-Barons Next, Ed Humes, the Pulitzer - prize winning author of Mississippi Mud, has written Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving the Planet.

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

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.