Sentences with phrase «with devious»

Loki and Ultron have teamed up with a devious plot to cause the heroes to toil away in battle while they lay waste to the world (or worse).
Many of the viewers noticed the sickly Joker at the end of the trailer with the devious Harley Quinn, but did they notice the other villain reveals?
As an example of Devilish Training, in «1 - Back» players will be challenged to answer a series of maths problems — but with a devious twist.
This four - player kitchen catastrophe simulator sets up some brilliantly simple basics — working together to prepare ingredients, cook basic dishes, and turn them in on a tight timetable — and then mercilessly complicates them with devious kitchen hazards.
Make no mistake, these levels are still filled with devious traps, shortcuts, and even the safety net of shrines to level up and replenish the player's magicks.
Tackle dungeons filled with devious puzzles and vicious monsters, and collect powerful items to aid Link in his quest to overthrow Ganondorf.
In the middle of covering all the Nintendo content from E3, I started to hear a rumor about a hacker with some devious plans.
Whoever decided to do that is an evil genius with devious intent.
On the one - sheet, Billy the Puppet menacingly stares forward with a devious smile plastered on its creepy face.
Portal 2 picks up where the original ended adding in new test chambers with devious but thrilling new mechanics.
This new enemy is in cahoots with devious scientist, Dr. Alrich Killian, who is working on a deadly toxin known as the Extremis virus.
Based on the best - selling book series, season two of the Netflix show plunges further into the darkly comedic mystery, which tells the tragic tale of the Baudelaire orphans — Violet (Malina), Klaus (Louis), and Sunny (Presley Smith)-- and their extraordinary encounters with the devious Count Olaf who will stop at nothing to get his hands on their inheritance.
Both will join Poe Dameron, the trusted pilot of the Resistance who uses his expert flying skills to travel the galaxy, and Kylo Ren, an enforcer for the First Order who terrorizes the galaxy with devious acts.
Share your creations with all your friends and torment them with your devious creations.
The movie is worth seeing even now, if for no other aim than to show a man ambitiously experimenting with the devious facets that would inspire greater films.
A seriously quirky piece of work, The Voices follows Ryan Reynolds» Jerry as his mental problems, which are highlighted by his conversations with his devious cat and lovable dog, worsen as he begins dating a pair of attractive coworkers (Gemma Arterton's Fiona and Anna Kendrick's Lisa).
They are simply luring you in with their devious marketing ploys to try and get you to believe that there is a «magic pill in a bottle» that will solve all of your body fat and muscle issues and have you looking like the fitness model on the bottle in a couple days.
With devious smiles spreading across their faces, they start running faster, then faster still.
Then again, the business of academic research endowments, especially in fields as conceptually confused as artificial intelligence or cognitive science, really is all about exploiting the credulity of wealthy foundations and corporations and private donors (sometimes with devious cynicism, sometimes in deluded innocence).

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Although their devious plots varied, all were psychopaths obsessed with seizing commercial opportunity through violent means — and most treated employees abysmally.
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.
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.
She was extremely devious and evil for no reason other than to inflict her control, with her only reservation being whether she thought she could get away with it.
Lentricchia, whose earlier work earned him the epithet «the Dirty Harry of literary theory, is the author of Criticism and Social Change (1983), which urges us to regard all literature as «the most devious of rhetorical discourses (writing with political designs upon us all), either in opposition to or in complicity with the power in place.»
Arrogant, devious, mendacious, boyish and charming on - camera, rude and distant off - camera, Bakker surrounded himself with lieutenants who had been successful in the outside world but who became strangely compliant when they walked into Bakker's own rather small shadow.
I have been asking Him to help deal with 2 coworkers who have been so mean, unkind and devious in trying to undermine my skills and take over my responsibilities.
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.
It made him devious on the field, impervious to pain, at home with double, even triple coverage.
(Most historians agree that what happened on the Boyne was engineered for his own devious purposes by Louis XIV of France, and it is certain that James II, asked to face 35,000 troops with 21,000, was not so much routed as obliged to make a quick getaway.)
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.
But what if you had to put up with a mother in law so devious she drives a wedge (and a pretty big one too) between you and your spouse?
With restrictions to formula distribution, the corporations become more devious, lobbying governments, challenging the law and establishing clinics and hospitals as marketing agents and centers.
«They were certainly a party that was developed with what I consider more devious motivations by Cuomo, not in the real quest to create a party that's independent and provide more choice,» said Gloria Mattera, one of the co-chairs of the state Green Party.
Mayor, a classical folklorist, recounts in lively, sometimes darkly comic detail the diabolical stratagems devised by devious warriors for tactical ends: arrows dipped in toxins; jewel - encrusted urns booby - trapped with plague - laden garments; and a host of dirty tricks involving snakes, stinging beetles, and venomous frogs.
It's like your body is working against you, sabotaging your best intentions with it's own devious agenda.
Those devious people at my nearby Macy's seemed to know I was coming so they baited the trap with a splash of color in a rack right in the aisle where I'd be sure to see it.
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With all of the mutants gone sans a vengeful Siamese twin (or at least half of him), Ramon takes his cash cow to the pay - off site, though a curious case of the Stockholm syndrome has thrown an unexpected wrench into Ramon's devious plan.
The guests start arriving, as Sophie's bubbly friends (Ashley Lilley & Rachel McDowall) arrive first and after she swears them to secrecy, she tells them her devious plan; soon afterwards Donna's long - time friends when she was a hedonist arrive: Tanya (Christine Baranski), a much divorced lady who takes pleasure flirting with young men, and the game Rosie (Julie Walters), the best - selling author of a cookbook.
His devious, sinister grin, coupled with deliberately slow tokes on his cigarette holder, allow him to slow down and fully embrace the pulpy words Tarantino provides him.
Little Nightmares: Complete Edition lands on Switch with all the previous content, telling two parallel story about two kids, their nightmares and a devious and sick world that is sinking into the darkness.
What we must quarrel with is the heartless, devious, and appallingly manipulative manner in which the authors of the film have drawn their good - guys - and - bad - guys battlelines...
After a decontamination shower (naked, of course, providing us with a lingering view of Woodley in silhouette) a devious looking dude named Matthew (Bill Skarsgard) fills them in on what's happening.
Wildly ludicrous, insanely fun and exploding with a color pallet painted in devious amounts of vibrancy, Marvel Studios Thor: Ragnarok may not break the structure that the mega-studio conglomerate has constructed so far, but it certainly takes a battering ram to it's smoother edges.
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).
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There's one generously devious note with Roy, who screws over an infirmed friend out of desperation and perhaps spite, but that revelation comes toward the end of the picture, leaving the rest of the film to linger on nothingness.
However, his prior filmmaking efforts were male dominated: In 2006, he won an Academy Award for his short film «Six Shooter,» which stars Brendan Gleeson; for McDonagh's 2008 feature - length debut «In Bruges,» he paired the actor with Colin Farrell in a devious tale about bumbling hitmen.
Two siblings, who just discovered their heritage, are thrust into a race with their more devious relatives to uncover 39 clues in order to find ultimate power», says The Hollywood Reporter.
Though it's another case of a man who refuses to grow up (as with Shaun), Gary's got a nihilistic, devious personality, and is a long way from the type of roles Pegg's landed in Hollywood.
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