Sentences with phrase «willing accomplice»
A "willing accomplice" refers to someone who is ready and eager to help or participate in something, usually in a dishonest or illicit activity. They are fully aware of what they are doing and actively support it. Full definition
Good to see the DECC — willing accomplices in implementing Britain's energy disaster — quick to front up with reassuring words for British power punters!
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To escape the cops, he masquerades as the manager of a struggling country - western band called the Dixie Dancekings, who are so desperate for a gig that they become willing accomplices to his misdeeds.
«There are so many willing accomplices to what's going on,» the scientist added.
Ben Mendelsohn (The Dark Knight Rises) is likewise great as Gosling's foil and sometimes willing accomplice.
Some mast have steps welded to the side of them, you can have the mast taken down, there are some webbing style ladders that can be hoisted by the main halyard, or you can find a couple of willing accomplices to simply hoist you up from the deck of the boat using a line already in place for raising the mainsail.
The government is thus an active and willing accomplice in damaging children.
Apparently, there are just too many people in this world who are either gullible enough or greedy enough to become willing accomplices to nefarious schemes to defraud governments, the Central Intelligence Agency or the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or a series of banks.
If Alberta can be considered the culprit behind Canada's sad track record on carbon emissions, then Ontario's acquiescence to the Energy East pipeline would make it a willing accomplice.
A useful idiot for the Obama administration and its willing accomplices in the press.
«If you want to deter corrupt members, don't become their willing accomplices.»
The bill was an 11th - hour, dead - of - night attempt by the teachers union — and their willing accomplices in the Legislature — to end - run Cuomo's historic property - tax cap.
He's finally found a willing accomplice in independent Joe Maloney of Saugerties, now approaching his third month in office.
From Mathieu Kassovitz's homeless simpleton in See How They Fall, who must kill in order to protect Jean - Louis Trintignant's kindred wanderer, to Emmanuelle Devos» Carla, a deaf secretary and willing accomplice to Vincent Cassel's big money plans in Read My Lips, to Malik in A Prophet: every one of Audiard's films puts us in the often uncomfortable position of being in characters» shoes.
If Wiseau has fought to keep basic facts about himself secret, then Sestero has been a willing accomplice.
«Excellent power delivery, but the engine is coarse and the transmission is its willing accomplice.»
But show a sporting bent and the S80 T6 will be a willing accomplice.
The carry - over 2.0 - litre engine is a willing accomplice.
And the 6 - speed automatic transmission was a willing accomplice in rapid acceleration.
It turns out his new home is alive with dinosaurs, including a hatchling tyrannosaur that becomes a willing accomplice in gameplay, which focuses on solving environmental puzzles while exploring from a first - person perspective.
As the American novelist Edmund White has succinctly phrased it: «The spiritual side of life, to be sure, is diminished by jokes... Humor is the enemy of lyric beauty and sadism (Jean Genet is never funny), but their friend - or at least their willing accomplice — is wan humor, weak jokes, old gags, tired one - liners.
Jones was a willing accomplice, Muller wasn't, not at the level the BBC and others told the story.
As a result, potential interlopers (i.e., home wreckers) find them highly desirable and are willing accomplices in the affair (because even D - list celebrities are still celebrities).
The judge also found that by just answering the question about the complainants» race, the rental specialist had facilitated the Banais» discrimination, albeit not as a willing accomplice.
He was delighted to find that he still had food in his special allergy free cupboard, that the glass he used last time was still here, that Rocky the Cat hadn't claimed the bed he slept in and the soccer ball was just waiting to showcase his new found skills with Bytes a willing accomplice.