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"conniving" Definitions
  1. behaving in a way that secretly hurts others or deliberately fails to prevent others from being hurt
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318 Sentences With "conniving"

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He's canny, conniving and never afraid to deceive a referee.
Jews had long been the conniving villains of Egyptian television.
No one can be that conniving and be an idiot.
When the Conniving Canoeists return, Nick immediately checked in with Julia.
Depictions of female candidates as calculating or conniving are political mainstays.
He is elusive and conniving, earnest and manipulative, brutal and desperate.
Isn't this album a shameless, conniving, manipulative slice of feelgood escapism?
Was Wright more roguish hustler, conniving swindler or a mix of both?
And it's because someone even more clever and conniving sold him out.
On the Apprentice, she was known as the backstabbing, loving, conniving villain.
And I think David's conniving enough to maybe do the same thing.
She, on the other hand, was kind of a conniving, selfish prick.
The conniving and sadistic Kathryn Merteuil will soon invade our television screens.
On Game of Thrones, he plays the devious, conniving Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish.
We need look no further than the conniving G.O.P. legislators in Florida.
We dive deep into their conniving and brutal day-to-day life.
Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus's cynical, conniving cohort.
Spacey, 58, played the show's corrupt and conniving protagonist, President Frank Underwood.
A conniving supervisor and overachieving co-workers try to foil her plans.
Aside from Jesse, the film's female characters are conniving, bloodthirsty and often topless.
"There will be no indulgence or conniving," the administration said on its website.
To owners, landlord groups seek to portray renters as poor, unpredictable, and conniving.
This type of vicious and conniving behavior is straight from the Clinton Playbook.
The conniving heartbreaker is eventually forced to confront the Damage She Has Done.
When Megan regains control, she's stunningly conniving and steps ahead of her courter.
Conservative speakers invited by students have been disinvited by cowed administrators or conniving faculty.
But we are not innocent victims of the elemental gods or the conniving politicians.
Idris Elba, as the conniving Macavity the Mystery Cat, with extremely green cat eyes.
Mama Rose, the controlling and conniving stage mother of Gypsy, is a classic diva part.
Sleepy me is quite conniving, and awake me is perturbed to now be running late.
At home, the government used the sanctions to blame the economic downturn on conniving foreigners.
Probably the most infamous figure of kinky courtly conniving is the French queen Marie Antoinette.
Of course you wouldn't take an arrogant, unethical, biased, politically conniving source at its word.
For the U.S., China's constant conniving to pilfer American intellectual property undermines U.S. economic hegemony.
Her political conniving has been a disgrace to this issue, and to the Senate itself.
An evil lair for out-of-touch bureaucrats, striving and conniving politicos, and entitled elites.
Over decades of acting, both women have played innocent characters — as well as conniving ones.
And the anonymity of the service gives folks all kinds of license to be conniving jerks.
Cersei is ready to defend her place on the Iron Throne after conniving her way there.
HOWEVER, those Siamese cats are conniving and creepy as hell—and maybe a little bit racist.
There's a job opening in his operation, and she's just the conniving individual to fill it.
And today, Scarlett Byrne, who played the conniving Slytherin sidekick Pansy Parkinson, pulled her own stunt.
In the new thriller, Cheban plays Phil Cohen, a conniving agent while Money plays Detective Hayes.
Jack Sparrow is ostensibly the hero of this story, but he's also a conniving, thieving pirate.
It lacks the sadism of "Chopped," thank goodness, and there aren't those conniving "Top Chef" antics.
But Amanda isn't evil or conniving — she's just a broke twentysomething trying to make ends meet.
In the original play, Prospero was deposed as duke of Milan by his conniving brother, Antonio.
Maya isn't cunning, conniving and savvy the way Melanie Griffith got to be in that movie.
But she misses and instead hits Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), Don's self-absorbed and conniving leading lady.
This in turn draws on longstanding European anti-Semitic traditions that portray Jews as greedy and conniving.
When you think of an immigrant and you think of then as conniving or voiceless, what happens?
The clip shows Richard plotting and conniving, giving us a glimpse of his bloodthirsty battle for power.
I've felt the brunt of this Conniving Girl Who Tricks You Into Buying Her Free Drinks trope.
What's more, their vilification in films like The Lion King as cackling, conniving scavengers is off base.
Cookie is onto Juicy's awesome, conniving ways, so she rounds up her own army against Giuliana. Wow.
More than anything it's Lovat's cruel, conniving personality that is responsible for the rift between these men.
Pruitt's interactions with Oklahoma's Devon Energy, a utility based out of his home-state, were especially conniving.
This delighted the pope's supporters, who said it showed that conniving conservatives would not push him around.
Wearing a lightning-white wig, the Pitch Perfect star was a crowd favorite as the conniving sea witch.
It drew Cersei, the conniving queen to a boorish king, as a compelling figure in her own right.
Black mothers, for their part, are often seen as conniving, overbearing, and/or constantly annoyed by their kids.
Over the decades she has swooned for a gangster, a conniving executive and an assortment of feckless playboys.
They still hate each other on screen, today as in 1998, and they're still conniving against one another.
It wasn't conniving on my part, but absolutely they influenced what I ended up doing on the project.
The drama comes when the players rank each other, putting all that schmoozing and conniving to the test.
It conjures more lawlessness, dishonesty, conniving, brutality and power mania than both of the earlier books put together.
Basically, it takes every conniving advertising trope that has ever massaged your brain, and turns them all upside down.
" Lately, Rigg has drawn a new generation of fans, as the conniving Lady Olenna Tyrell, on " Game of Thrones .
It's anchored by strong lead performances; Mr. Dancy gives depth to what might have been a cardboard conniving villain.
But whatever cartographic conniving Apple is up to, it's still got some way to go before it beats Google.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 87%Synopsis: In "Gladiator," Phoenix played the conniving son of the well-known emperor Marcus Aurelius.
It might be because she's surrounded by one-dimensional characters from her conniving mother to her suspiciously put-together boyfriend.
"The Bachelor" has now attempted to pair off 20 eligible men with an array of swooning, and often conniving, women.
Compliant bureaucrats and conniving businessmen allowed Mr Ben Ali's clan to dominate the economy, though they produced little of value.
And so his magical rise to the title fight went nearly unhindered—with a little help from his conniving team.
Trump scares-out his vote by lying, conniving, mocking, blaming, dividing; Biden turns-out his vote with authenticity and dignity.
Both fashion experts commented on Georgina Sparks' dark, bad-girl style, befitting of the recurring villain's conniving and chaotic behavior.
The Clinton stereotype makes her out to be a conniving politician who will do what it takes to obtain power.
In "Nosedive," the heroes are the ones who resist the pressure to be fake and conniving to achieve higher scores.
It stars a young Derek Jacobi as Claudius, a young real emperor in Rome, and all the conniving and backstabbing.
For every show about conniving politicians or murderous adulterers, we like to sit down for something a little more life-affirming.
Yeoh told Chu, according to IndieWire, that she refused to take the role if the film portrayed Eleanor as so conniving.
It's a term that's extremely gendered, suggesting a vapid, conniving woman who pursues money and material wealth through any available opportunity.
Gossip Girl fans might recognize his wife Fitzpatrick's tour mate for life is none other than Gossip Girl's conniving cousin imposter.
Roles like these, showing Union as a conniving, shady, unpleasant woman, helped to shape my thinking about the actress for years.
"We are always portrayed in these conniving or scary stereotypes in the media," said Aanjalie Collure, Scary Immigrants' creator and curator.
Look, I don't mind a superficial campy fantasia about Los Angeles where all the women are variations on sniping, conniving bitches.
We may never know whether Rachel is a criminal conniving Phillip out of his estate, or just a widow seeking independence.
Instead, "Love & Friendship" provides us with a manipulative, vain and conniving protagonist who is more than willing to give into temptation.
In other words, Trump's establishment supporters seem to be hoping that his authenticity is the expedient work of a conniving opportunist.
Alice — a girlfriend as conniving as Astrid was to River — persuades Payton to break up with her to boost his image.
Defense lawyers vigorously contested practically every aspect of the government's case, presenting their clients as victimized by prosecutors and conniving witnesses.
When his favorite daughter, Cordelia, refuses to participate, her conniving sisters gain all the power and conspire to murder their father.
But an unforeseen joy of the season is its conniving players and their willingness to work together to protect their own.
They didn't want Jaime to kill his one true love, even if that one true love was his often callous, conniving sister.
Yes, he's still making that conniving face, which is disturbing coming from such an earnest fan of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy.
Where does the conniving male antihero, who has dominated so much of the last decade of TV, go in this newish world?
First, she played opposite Heath Ledger in Casanova, then bagged the role of corseted, conniving Anne Boleyn in TV fuckfest The Tudors.
Shaver is the conniving poet in the breakout hit, while Davis is the ex-best friend of the main character, Hannah Baker.
The conniving client eventually slides into Lee's boyfriend's inbox and makes an attempt to steal her man: Better than the soaps, right?
She must be a liar or a "conniving witch," because these "fine young men with nice families" would never do anything wrong.
Sadly, her growing self-esteem is dashed when coquettish, conniving Jessica arrives and chooses Alice as the victim of a hateful prank.
Join your friends online as you play high-octane quests, battle conniving bandits, and attempt to take down the fanatical Calypso Twins.
Oba, wife of Sango, was persuaded by her conniving co-wife, Osun, to cut off an ear as a show of devotion.
Perhaps one day Facebook users will get sick of being jerked around and lied to and pull the plug on its conniving ass.
According to Betsey Reyes, Princess' owner, the conniving canine slips out of her house every night and sidles over to a nearby McDonald's.
In "Vice," Christian Bale portrays Cheney as a conniving opportunist who steers Bush into an ill-conceived war in Iraq after the Sept.
You know that woman who uses all the right feminist and enlightened vocabulary, but is still a conniving you-know-what at heart?
But like all of us, Trevor wants to know how Kai ended up behind bars, what with him being so brilliant and conniving.
Gold diggers are almost always portrayed as conniving women who use their sexuality to get in good with wealthy men for financial gains.
He epitomizes an American dream of thankful success in public, but is conniving - some might think criminal - when the boardroom door slams shut.
Which stock character, we wonder—the town doctor, the dogged lawman, the wise old settler, the conniving cattle baron—will break the mold?
Only her fiercely loyal husband still believed that the problem lay solely with the conniving and sniping of other politicians, not his wife.
Because he's conniving enough to try to put one over you, but not perceptive enough to realize that you see right through him.
But it was Veep that truly nailed the ugly, absurd, self-serving, desperate, conniving, and hilariously incompetent truth of political life in America.
His ideal is the conniving wheeler-dealer, master of the "art of the deal," who manages to put one over on his partner.
I'd have seen evil Asians and conniving Asians and friendly Asians and lecherous Asians and ethical Asians and brave Asians and complicated Asians.
According to the narrative pushed by gossip outlets, Gutierrez was grasping and conniving, and Weinstein an innocent pawn caught up in her scheme.
A Trump win of any kind will now be an even worse-case scenario, as it would make Cruz look both conniving and stupid.
It was difficult to root for her, and the possessive lovers of the internet had already written her off as a conniving side chick.
Michelle Dockery's first character after playing Downton Abbey's prim and proper – and, sure, a bit conniving – Lady Mary Crawley is anything but upper crust.
But what Cruz enacted was an inversion of that scene; while not remotely gory, the maneuver was no less conniving and far more courageous.
Most of us hesitate to push back and stand up for ourselves because we're afraid of being perceived as aggressive, pushy, conniving, or rude.
In the Harry Potter film series, the nervous Neville Longbottom, played by Lewis, is frequently derided by the conniving Draco Malfoy, portrayed by Felton.
Thank goodness for the addition of Pfeiffer as a conniving queen and Jolie's return as the one to go toe-to-toe with her.
His conniving and calculating behavior not only tricked me, but he tricked my mom, who was present for all my appointments as a minor.
Three Chinese men living in Japan leave their rural towns for Tokyo but are left with nothing after meeting a conniving prostitute from Shanghai.
Bernie Madoff is too conniving to be let out of prison early and should continue rotting behind bars ... so says Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband.
It it a feeling that cannot be replicated — a conspiratorial giggle in your soul, both diabolical and innocent, conniving yet straightforward, obnoxious yet affectionate.
Will it address that Patel is of South Asian descent, that Davy's benefactors and antagonists (Ben Whishaw is playing conniving Uriah Heep!) are white?
The surprise is that, after all of the insults, backstabbing, and conniving, that there are still some things that cross a line for the cast.
Last week, for example, Aubry said the reason they left Michele out of the vote was because she was too close with the conniving collegian.
It's against this backdrop that Deborah Davis' and Tony McNamara's script, based on true events, paints the gaudy bubble within which our conniving protagonists operate.
The invective that clouds the careers of Plath and Ms Swift—"melodramatic", "psychotic", "conniving"—has rarely been used to describe men doing the same thing.
Marianna McClellan deftly portrays Louise, a sweet young woman who later learns about the conniving ways of the world and how to deal with them.
Netflix cut ties with Spacey — who starred as the show's conniving protagonist — last year, after allegations of unwanted sexual advances and harassment came to light.
Furthermore, providers with a documented history of careless, perhaps even conniving, billing practices have learned that they will be financially rewarded for their wasteful practices.
So they turned to Plan B: A bonkerballs conspiracy theory that Ford was somehow being manipulated by conniving Democrats into saying untrue things about Kavanaugh.
Kevin Spacey's portrayal of the conniving politician Frank Underwood is the perfect embodiment of the "inhumane face" of American politics, state television officials have said.
But the superfan can be conniving, as in "All About Eve," or even murderous: the Tejano sensation Selena was killed by her fan club president.
The machinations of Las Encinas' conniving, sexy teens alone is enough to knock you off your feet (and now there are even more of them).
Mr. Trump's other mentor was the caustic and conniving McCarthy-era lawyer Roy Cohn, who counseled Mr. Trump never to give in or concede error.
But in the end, he's no victim; he lies about Greg and uses Sebastian's conniving ways against him to get paid for helping with the setup.
Lee Yo-won plays the conniving, cold-hearted CEO Seo Yi-kyung, while Uee's Lee Se-jin is a con woman with a heart of gold.
They are also both filled with the tropes that make romantic comedies great: conniving plans, secret relationships, and a dramatic scene where someone confesses their love.
After a month spent starving and conniving, the thought of spending an afternoon with someone who truly loves you with no ulterior motive can seem priceless.
To listen to her critics, the real Clinton is a shape-­shifter, with any avowals of authenticity dismissed as the expedient work of a conniving opportunist.
One night, a conniving local drunkard named Jack trapped the Prince of Darkness in a tree by hacking a sign of the cross into the bark.
It made us confront a victory that we'd rooted for, over the conniving and greedy Lannister dynasty, by giving it to us as a war crime.
It's because scrubbing the culture of work produced by the complicated or compromised or conniving or criminal or contemptible is a practice with a chilling legacy.
Dr. Lane's family is newly destitute, and the duke needs a wife to produce an heir so that his conniving cousin's line won't take the title.
On that series, Dr. Smith, as played by Jonathan Harris, was a conniving and campy foil who bickered with the family's robot and spouted alliterative insults.
Politicians and financiers may be perennially conniving, but they aren't grifters because they're part of the system — true practitioners of the art thrive in the margins.
Sandler is maybe most impressive here, with his control of small facial tics and a conniving smirk that peeks out in every deranged conversation he has.
From that play he also draws the basic story of a crafty political wife who has no compunction about conniving to achieve outcomes she considers favorable.
Graphic novel icon Frank Miller let his conniving producing partner screw his faithful business manager out of more than a million bucks ... according to a new lawsuit.
After all this time, Arya probably has the brains to know that Sansa didn't mean what she wrote, and that Littlefinger is a conniving little gossip queen.
A dishonest executive, conniving with a fawning legislature and empowered by a partisan judiciary: were it to come to that, America truly would be in grave trouble.
Once again, there's a conniving, unpleasant lead scientist as a villain, and a gruff military commander in charge of the group, and a handful of doomed soldiers.
"House of Cards" put Netflix on the map as a home for original entertainment when the series debuted in 2013 starring Spacey as conniving politician Frank Underwood.
In the sixth season, his character, the conniving fictional US President Frank Underwood, has died, and his wife Claire (played by Robin Wright) occupies the Oval Office.
It was a move far more conniving and savvy than you'd expect from the "Pop Tarts" (as one Rolling Stone cover put it) they'd been painted as.
On Saturday, the 32-year-old actress — known for her portrayal of the conniving Emily Thorne on Revenge — married her former costar and onscreen husband, Josh Bowman.
In The Favourite, Weisz plays a conniving and sharp-tongued advisor and lover to Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), competing with Abigail (Emma Stone) for their queen's affection.
Other Gossip • Murtagh's sense of honor and loyalty is incredibly touching especially when set against all the conniving and con games that are playing out around him.
In "The Big Lebowski," a riff on Raymond Chandler, he played the conniving, hectoring multimillionaire in a wheelchair, Jeffrey Lebowski, who is being targeted by bungling crooks.
In his answer, Buttigieg took the assumptions the evangelical right often makes about gay people — that we're conniving, amoral perverts — and deftly redirected them toward Pence himself.
But alas, that's exactly what happened, because before the Josiah/Iggy drama was even over, Lee swooped right in to reclaim his title as the most conniving contestant.
Back then, what my mom was doing may have been called smart or maybe conniving, depending on how you feel about someone using another person for free food.
On a simpler show, New York newbie Lori (Emily Meade) would be introduced as a stereotypical Midwest bumpkin, tricked into the sex trade by a conniving Black pimp.
Queen Regent Cersei has a huge impact on Sansa: sartorially, yes, but also by helping Sansa realize that the royals are basically a bunch of conniving, sneaky people.
The following year he was panic-stricken Leo Bloom to Zero Mostel's conniving Max Bialystock in Brooks' "The Producers," picking up an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.
Steele's once-confidential campaign memos were published just before Trump's inauguration, unleashing tales of cavorting prostitutes and conniving campaign aides on secret sorties with agents of the Kremlin.
For starters, Biden has yet to accept any genuine responsibility for how he helped preside over a process that depicted women—African American women—as conniving bottom-feeders.
And while we used to think of her as a conniving celebrity-seeker who would scruple at nothing to get her way, we are prepared to forgive her.
Season 2's 2020 finale "Chapter 2" flips that script with an extra dose of youthful, conniving energy, once again thwarting a thriving relationship between Maeve and Otis.
We've seen firsthand just how conniving and selfish these two formidable foes can be when facing each other, both figuratively and literally, as they were in that last moment.
Yet, thankfully, Jedi master and Scarlet boss Jacqueline Carlyle (Melora Hardin) reminds Sutton that being a"magnetic" people person and a conniving sexual predator are not the same thing.
And many Hong Kongers, including members of the local legislature, suspect that some mainlanders buy one-way permits from conniving officials for as much as HK$2m ($255,000) each.
Back in 1988 the Muppets were already on top of their Trump trolling game, as children tuned in to watch a conniving Ronald Grump build his iconic Grump Tower.
It's going to be the first season since lead actor Kevin Spacey, who played conniving politician Frank Underwood, got booted from the show by Netflix following sexual assault allegations.
The mock appeal began where the play ended: Shylock, the conniving Venetian Jewish moneylender, insists on collecting a pound of flesh from Antonio, who has defaulted on a loan.
Mo (Don Cheadle) is on the run after being framed for murder while his former colleagues (played by Regina Hall and Andrew Rannells) carry on with their conniving ways.
"Chaos is a ladder," he told Littlefinger, throwing not just one of the man's mottos back at him, but one that encapsulates his Iron Throne ambitions and conniving worldview.
We had this idea of America Works [the major jobs program of President Frank Underwood, the conniving politician played by Kevin Spacey], and it was in the air already.
Characters we've known for years connected either for the first time on the show or in new ways, sharing moments that were by turns touching, revolting, conniving and deadly.
The 6.83-year-old was painted as a conniving serial rapist in "Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator" -- with several women explaining how Bikram abused his power to sexually assault them.
I know it's nothing compared to what diabetics endure, but I could have become an insomniac conniving to take those pills as late as I possibly could each night.
SCHOEN: To handpick a team that is of the same ilk as these other investigators but more sophisticated and conniving, it puts a dark cloud of the entire Mueller investigation.
Sheen, recently seen in Masters of Sex, seems like a fine choice for the angel Aziraphale, who often serves as the straight man to Crowley's more sly and conniving character.
How had no one ever told me about Emilia, who, in only a couple of lines, brings down one of the most conniving, merciless villains in all of Western literature?
Characters feel wooden and dimensionless (the conniving IT guy, the security guard with a heart of gold), and the production values come in just a hair above Syfy Movie quality.
The illustrious meeting, organized by the ever-conniving Cardinal Wolsley, was to be a spectacle of epic proportions, celebrating the signing of the Treaty of Universal Peace two years prior.
China's ambassador accused unidentified foreign forces of fomenting violent protests in Hong Kong, warning them that their "conniving" efforts had been noticed and that they would end up damaging themselves.
In the show, the characters all live in a city called Cape Suzette: Baloo became a pilot, Louie a club owner, and Shere Khan a conniving businessman in a suit.
Daniels, who was obviously neither of these extremes, winds up looking perpetually uncomfortable, which makes the film's constant descriptions of Lisa as a conniving sex goddess seem strange and discordant.
Mr. Trump, for his part, told associates for years that Ms. Manigault Newman was conniving, a quality he appeared to admire before she began using his own tactics against him.
In "An Elderly Lady Has Accommodation Problems," a conniving local sculptor who specializes in penises — made of wood, clay, concrete and even Play-Doh — goes after Maud's desirable prewar apartment.
" Root sees the conniving Fuches with clear eyes: "He's an enormous asshole, but he does have a human side and I think he really loves Barry deep down,' he says.
To find women who are openly conniving and it doesn't have anything necessarily to do with their sexuality makes some people uncomfortable because it's not a story that gets told.
Yes, her new album is notably darker in tone and her new single's focus is vengeful, but the expectation that she would be conniving to that degree seems unfairly far-fetched.
When I accepted him as a student, I was impressed by his intelligence, but I have come to know him as a conniving person who easily lies to get his way.
She asked the hat maker Arnold Levine to make it as dramatic as its entrance, worn in the final act by Laura Linney or Cynthia Nixon as the conniving Regina Giddens.
Ruthie, separated from her husband, is scrabbling to keep her toehold in the middle class after being forced out of her job at a local museum by a conniving board member.
Henry's advisors, led by a conniving Sean Harris, convince him that the King of France is plotting to have him murdered, an aggression that cannot go unanswered, lest Henry appear weak.
A history-based ending, then, would see someone like Stannis Baratheon ascending to the throne, not because he filled the role of the chosen hero or conniving villain, but because he didn't.
The double-dealing Duke in "Measure For Measure" and the ever-conniving Richard III are among the other Shakespeare Machiavels to have prompted more than the occasional chuckle in Mr. Rylance's playing.
Mark (whose corporate job is never fully described, making it hard to care deeply about his shifting financial fortunes) comes across as a dull milquetoast one minute, a conniving manipulator the next.
Walking my dog late at night, my conniving obscured by the neighborhood shadows, I concocted and dismissed dozens of outlandish plans, each with the approximate sophistication of a fifth-grade Halloween prank.
From a morose Peter Dinklage to conniving reality TV producers to Michael Douglas as the sweet president of your dreams, Hulu's got movies and TV to carry you all the way to March.
"I'm a housewife who raised three children, and they're making me sound like this conniving woman," she said of stories painting her as the ringleader and being involved in Ghosn's alleged financial misdeeds.
This fall will also feature women in a swath of compelling roles, from widows-turned-criminals to conniving duchesses knocking weak queens from the throne to teenage girls going up against police brutality.
You see, we have reason to believe that Jon Snow is finally going to put the sneaky and conniving Petyr Baelish, more commonly known as Littlefinger, in his place once and for all.
He's feeding the narrative that agriculture is out to get us and that there are these spooky people conniving on how to mess up our health, make us fat and ruin our lives.
Near the end of the finale, Jesse's conniving uncle (Walton Goggins) is struck by lightning and then revived by a stinging bee, in a way that leaves open the possibility of divine intervention.
But the sound bites in this mockumentary, where their whining and conniving are exposed, are filmed in a cramped studio in the production offices here belonging to its creator and showrunner, Kulap Vilaysack.
And with three skilled actresses at the film's center, characters that could so easily be reduced to familiar stereotypes — the crazy one, the conniving one, the social climber — are instead imbued with humanity.
The plot of "Trading Places," from 19703, actually was an experiment, a pungent, complicated one, in which conniving white moneybags install a broke and hustling Eddie Murphy in disgraced Dan Aykroyd's banking job.
Mr. Putin has maintained his popularity in large part by persuading Russians that he is the guarantor of their national greatness against the machinations of a West forever conniving to keep Russia down.
With their lobbyists, they've crafted a narrative where noncompetes are "necessary" — conniving workers, they'd have us believe, are just waiting for an opportunity to steal whatever intellectual property they can get their hands on.
"We're next to each other on the couch, and she'll have this devilish look on her face like she's conniving some kind of devious plan, and then the tweet will go out," he said.
It's quite the plot — and Olivia kind of knew what was up all along, but she couldn't prove anything and she's not as conniving as her father, so he always manages to outsmart her.
Now, people can be the most vicious, nasty, conniving, horrible people that they want in their homes at two in the morning, on their computer or their cell phone, and there are no repercussions.
Ahok has appealed the conviction, but for many observers the sentence itself established that some judges, in addition to conniving politicians, are now willing to do the bidding of Muslim fundamentalists and their mobs.
But embedded in the work is a critique of what Cooper calls the "conniving, disruptive, venal, and murderous" impulses of colonization, the slaughter that followed in the explorers' wake, or that they themselves perpetrated.
Chadwell called her time on reality TV "petty shit" done out of boredom in a house with "nothing but vodka"—the perils of competing against other women while conniving producers puppeteered drama and wild behavior.
Activists in Belgium's lively Congolese community, however, largely blame the colonialists for leaving the locals ill-prepared to govern and, among other crimes, for conniving in the assassination of Congo's first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba.
His latest move (after a robocall impersonating a nonexistent Washington Post reporter went out Tuesday) is this form intended blame those conniving, unscrupulous journalists that are totally out to get the candidate before the Dec.
LONDON, Aug 15 (Reuters) - China accused unidentified foreign forces on Thursday of fomenting violent protests in Hong Kong, warning them that their "conniving" efforts had been noticed and that they would end up damaging themselves.
Ellen Burstyn plays Claire's equally conniving mother; Cicely Tyson is the Texas congresswoman whose seat Claire covets; and Neve Campbell is the operative hired to do whatever it takes to get Claire what she wants.
In it, Manigault Newman describes a mentally waning, racist and lewd, charismatic but emotionally abusive, man overseeing a conniving cast of aides and family members whose varied goals rarely include the betterment of the nation.
Mr. Waltz was recently working on a scene in which the conniving Mistress Quickly offers Falstaff a letter intended to lure him to a second rendezvous — in actuality, a trap — with the married Alice Ford.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in an unexpected January 13 announcement, revealed that the United States would be issuing sanctions against Moldovan politician Vladimir Plahotniuc, one of the most conniving figures Moldova has ever produced.
But anyone conniving against the likes of James Bond, Superman and Luke Skywalker also apparently hungers for coziness and normalcy; leather-bound books and potted plants are arranged alongside molten lava curtains and piranha ponds.
Most unexpected: Bad guys rarely get what's coming to them in Game of Thrones, which made it immensely satisfying to watch the conniving Petyr Baelish slain before the Stark sisters he betrayed so many times over.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni accused some members of the security forces of conniving with criminals on Wednesday as he announced measures including the collection of DNA from all Ugandans to help curb surging crime.
She notes the rigid saint/sinner dichotomy of female characters in Do the Right Thing (1989), repeated again in Mo' Betta Blues (1990); then there's the "conniving siren" he relies on in He Got Game (1998).
On the page, the reader can hear the killer Wilfred James's words of confession — "I believe there is another man inside of every man, a stranger, a Conniving Man" — in any way he or she likes.
Untitled Goose Game is a game about creating hi-jinks, not by blowing stuff up, but by strategically squawking, sneaking, flapping your wings, and being gently conniving, as it is in a goose's nature to do.
Here, there's suicide and suicide attempts, conniving campaign tricks, several assassination plots, craven political grandstanding, and a horrifying plotline where a grandmother (played with perfect flamboyance by Jessica Lange) exploits her granddaughter's illness for free things.
In his two most famous roles, as a conniving preacher in "There Will Be Blood," and as an electively mute goth in "Little Miss Sunshine," he plays diligent, abstemious men whose tight lids obscure bubbling waters.
A lot of people I know have an idea that she is "conniving," that she's been plotting her way to the presidency all along, and I really have to ask what the hell is wrong with that?
Instead of being Thorne's "inner emotional teen's sexy dream" come to life, Delphi is a conniving sociopath who pretends to be a Manic-Pixie-Dream-Girl in order to gain Albus' trust and get what she wanted.
Paige may come out on top, but Keough gives an equally intense performance as a two-timing frenemy, the kind of person who can play dumb when confronted, but is conniving enough to rope people into schemes.
Employees of Facebook, possibly Silicon Valley's most controversial company, held their peace even after a New York Times investigation that showed a pattern of company leaders conniving, dissembling, and kowtowing to conservatives as the platform's problems mounted.
"I don't think many (national Democrats) have the charisma of Obama, the weird likability and material language of Sanders, or the conniving ability of Harry Reid," said Felix Biederman, co-host of the "Chapo Trap House" podcast.
Pitting best friends Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf against each other, the conniving, anonymous blogger known as "Gossip Girl" aimed to take down the elite world of Manhattan boarding school one scandal at a time.
Ms. Rousseff, who was impeached and ousted in August 2016 for breaking budgetary laws, has maintained that she was a fundamentally honest public servant who fell victim to a legislative "coup" by conniving rivals, including Mr. Temer.
In a plot that manages to mash up "RoboCop" and Charles Dickens, the interspecies police officer Dog Man (the result of some emergency surgery) battles the evil machinations of both a bionic fish and a conniving cat.
Mr. Rockwell will play Walter Cole (known as Teach), the group's volatile and conniving third member who weasels his way into Donny's scheme and who has been portrayed in previous productions by Robert Duvall and Al Pacino.
"I just wanted to be on set with Lena [Headey] again, she's good fun," Williams said of the actress who played Cersei, the conniving queen whom Arya has had it out for since season 1 of the series.
With all the the thrilling recklessness of Spring Breakers but ten times better and without James Franco, "BBHMM" has everything we could ask for: Rihanna in a see-through latex dress, and revenge against a conniving capitalist asshole.
New this round: Ellen Burstyn as Claire's equally conniving mother; Cicely Tyson as the Texas congresswoman whose seat Claire covets; and Neve Campbell as the operative hired to do whatever it takes to get Claire what she wants.
That means the frequent demeaning of others and himself as he fights to stay on top: He's queasily lecherous, he's conniving, and he's perfectly willing to throw a colleague to the wolves in order to make a deal.
Field, Lindley, and Segel create sweet, understanding, and deep characters that the viewer truly feels for; Benjamin and Grant are both convincing, non-evil and evil (respectively) geniuses whose conniving antics succeed at raising the stakes sky high.
In a speech this month, Museveni accused some members of the security forces of conniving with criminals and announced measures including the collection of DNA from all Ugandans to help curb surging crime in the East African nation.
Psh. Of course, Greg being Greg, he'll probably try to play both sides with his cache of cruise ship documents, and we'll watch him bumble his way through that, in his secretly conniving but outwardly idiotic Greg way.
Remember that before Christopher Plummer has a chance to confess his feelings to Julie Andrews, he messes things up by getting engaged to Eleanor Parker, who played the Baroness ELSA like the icy, conniving witch that she was.
He's not 'the sneaky, loser, little dips---' portrayed in 'The Social Network' Jesse Eisenberg's portrayal of Zuckerberg as a conniving, backstabbing, severely socially awkward introvert made for great drama, but it's just not who Zuck is, Martínez said.
Bran reveals Littlefinger's conniving nature to his sisters, just as he, at last, confirms a crucial genealogical detail to Samwell Tarly and viewers: Jon Snow is the rightful heir to the Iron Throne, and Daenerys is Jon's aunt.
Their presence — along with Alan Ruck's conniving simpleton Connor Roy — fundamentally changes the tone of the show from one that takes itself too seriously, to one that's in on the joke about the absurdity of the world it's depicting.
Rhodora (Rene Russo), Josephina's conniving boss—a former punk star who has undergone a transformation from "anarchist to purveyor of good taste"—is quick to spot the business opportunity, too, and a web of sneaky underhand deals take place.
The two are drawn to a mysterious house where, their imaginations enhanced by magic candy, they witness an unfolding Edwardian melodrama involving a lonely widower (Barbet Schroeder) and a pair of conniving women (Bulle Ogier and Marie-France Pisier).
This conniving martini-drinking matriarch regularly turns her children against each other to get what she wants, criticizing her daughter's looks, controlling her son Buster, blaming a car accident on Michael, and admitting that she "never cared for Gob."
In a society where you have to be pious, selfish and conniving to thrive, nothing short of a counter-revolution—like the one Litchfield's inmates incited, but couldn't resolve—can give Offred a shot at living a happy life.
Waking up one morning to find his wife, Sif, bald to the scalp, Thor goes straight to that conniving troublemaker, the shape-shifting crafty misanthrope who lives among the gods, and threatens to break every bone in his body.
Yet, simply requiring a 10-percent capital ratio to avoid regulatory scrutiny is unwise: A conniving manager could take a bank onto the off-ramp and then substantially increase its risk exposure by investing in risky loans and securities.
This apparent evasiveness played into my early impression — and Roberts's — that the woman left with Alien-Stock in her lap was less beleaguered than conniving, skirting anyone wanting to discuss concerns that it would end up a chaotic bust.
BrainDead's starting point, timed precisely and nicely to an election year in which many voters feel as if they're being asked to choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum, is that the country's political leadership is fractious, conniving, self-defeating and, simply, crazy.
Centered around the conniving three-way relationship between Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) and her two "favorites" and lovers, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) and her cousin, newbie Abigail Hill (Emma Stone), its total absurdity is what makes it divine.
This exact set of character twists has pretty much been airlifted wholesale into 53: Legacy, which insists that people are more complicated than their stereotypes — not all women are conniving shrews; not all black people are drug dealers; not all etc.
The crew satisfies all the American High School Archetypes we know so well: the boorish football jock, the conniving mean girl, the smarmy prepster, the Christian athlete who discovers she might be gay, the opinionated jackass, the innocent, puzzled beauty.
At that point, the podcast really takes a left turn, and turns into a different mystery altogether: a treasure hunt for a rumored fortune in buried gold, featuring foreboding sundial inscriptions, conniving Floridian cousins, and a small-town lawyer named Boozer Downs.
Street Fighter V's F.A.N.G portrays some of the most classically derogatory Asian stereotypes—villainous, weak, conniving, effeminate—with such ferocity, it is astounding that it passed through so many eyes in Capcom without comment and continues to do so with its players.
That's more or less the full lineup for the primary contestants, but we mustn't forget to acknowledge the merry antics of the conniving Thenardiers, the innkeepers from whom Valjean rescues the abused young Cosette (nicely sung by McKayla Twiggs at the reviewed performance).
IT SEEMS LIKE a story straight out of a legal thriller: powerful figures conniving in the shadows at the highest level of the legal system to tip the scales of justice in a dispute over billions of dollars' worth of mining riches.
Seeing as such recognizable, one-of-a-kind books would be difficult, if not impossible to sell on an open market, it's likely the robbery was at the behest of a conniving collector desperate to get their hands on the rare books.
Kevin Spacey, who plays Netflix's conniving President Frank Underwood on "House of Cards," is slated for a Tuesday appearance, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, known as President Selina Meyer on HBO's "Veep," is scheduled to be a guest on Colbert's show on April 22.
Back then, though, he hadn't yet cycled through nearly a complete roster of senior White House aides, and GOP congressional leaders were still conniving with him to pass a far-reaching legislative agenda, which prevented his relationships with them from growing too strained.
His Disney-influenced style brings humor and immediacy to the text, with Sunzi himself popping into the story as both the wise and fearless commander of blank-eyed, child-like soldiers and the conniving nemesis to the enemy who tries to cross him.
But when new residents encroach on his territory, he strikes a deal with the conniving Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow): rescue Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) from a fire-breathing dragon and bring her to Farquaad to marry, and Shrek gets his solitude back.
As the historian Paul Hanebrink recounts in an unnerving new study, according to the Judeobolshevik myth, the instigators of communism were the Jews as a whole, not some tiny band of thinkers, conniving as a people to bring communist irreligion and revolution worldwide.
Set in the South of France, this Sky Atlantic 10-part series follows Georgina as she learns the conniving ways of her late husband (with the help of his first wife) to maintain her family's luxurious lifestyle and stave off his enemies.
Jenkins wrote his novels in an irreverent, down-home style and populated them with cool, wise-cracking main characters surrounded by crude Texas rednecks, doltish and selfish athletes, conniving sports executives, shameless fans, corrupt referees, greedy agents and "shapely adorables," as he called attractive women.
There are multitudes in Okja—for my money, the best science fiction film of the year—beyond even the oddly touching girl-and-her-superpig buddy story, or the dark, electric sendup of corporate conniving, or the potently earnest takedown of the industrial meat complex.
If the trailer is any indication, what follows is a lot of sneaking, conniving, and hitting people over the head with lamps in a story that belongs right next to Heathers, Mean Girls, and the first season of Scream Queens in your digital library.
In 2012, when reporters discovered that Mitt Romney's tax plan contained either an implicit middle-class tax increase or a false promise of deficit neutrality, Republicans rejected the reporting and underlying analysis as the work of conniving liberals with a rooting interest in Romney's failure.
Because The Great Wall was filmed in China and consists mostly of a Chinese cast—Willem Dafoe as a conniving, scene-chewing European is one of the only other Western actors—there have been complaints that Damon is playing the typical white-savior role.
Recall that in June of last year, just six months after all of Cohen and Sater's conniving, Donald Trump Jr. received an email describing "Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump," and he responded as if the information was second nature to him.
Johnny Foreigner, mostly, as well as a conniving, cartoonishly evil establishment; at a recent Leave event your columnist witnessed Tories and Kippers urge their supporters to take pens into the polling booth on June 23rd to prevent the intelligence services from doctoring their votes.
JEFF BREITHAUPT NEW YORK ♦ To the Editor: The sexist and conceited rejection of Joyce Maynard's 1998 memoir by critics and the literary establishment was, heartbreakingly, not all that dissimilar to the degredation she suffered at the hands of a deceptive, conniving older man.
Putin said Poland - which in September 1939 was invaded first by Nazi Germany from the west and then by Soviet forces from the east - had helped bring disaster on itself by conniving in the previous year in plans to dismember Czechoslovakia, its southern neighbor.
This time around, not only is this world's first woman president dealing with inescapable misogyny and the mess her criminal husband left behind, but also the entrance of Annette (Diane Lane) and Bill Shepherd (Greg Kinnear), a sibling pair of conniving and ultra-rich political puppet masters.
While Naya Rivera is best-known for her role as the conniving Santana Lopez on Glee, she's also worked with LGBT organizations like GLAAD, whose 2011 Hollywood gala she hosted, and will appear this month on an upcoming episode of RuPual's Drag Race as a guest judge.
Most Americans are probably familiar with the, ahem, vibrant title of this book thanks to a copy (print or DVD) of Woodward and Bernstein's "All the President's Men," a term employed equally by conniving frat boys and Nixon-era political strategists to denote fraudulent election shenanigans.
The writers were former journalists, and the story they whipped up hinges on a hard-boiled Chicago reporter, Hildy Johnson, who's planning to leave the city and the newspaper racket, only to be reeled back into action by a jailbreak and his conniving editor, Walter Burns.
They position their two protagonists as two cliched characters – Saif Ali Khan as the evil, conniving Shakun Kothari, a man who built his empire through dishonest means, and Rizwan Ahmed (Rohan Mehra), a star-struck broker from Allahabad who aims to reach the heights that Kothari has.
There are still women being used as conniving, angry antagonists, but in cases like Adria's story in Diablo III or Azshara in the latest World of Warcraft expansion, there's at least enough characterization to see a variety of motivations, and a lot less use of overt trauma to create antagonists.
So, don't call him "moron" or "idiot;" call him what he is: a conniving, corrupt con man, a dangerous, divisive demagogue -- and, most sobering of all, the man who carried 30 states in the last election, and may well do it again if Democrats don't focus their fire more effectively.
The main character is a conniving financial type named Augustus Melmotte, who rises to power despite nagging questions about a criminal past, uncertainty over whether he was ever really 'a rich man' and a tendency for lying so extreme, Trollope writes, that 'not a word that he said was worth anything.
" Midway through a New York Times chat about the Kavanaugh hearings, columnist Bret Stephens dashed off that Cruz is like "a serpent covered in Vaseline" whose ethics are "purely situational," a politician "conniving enough to try to put one over you, but not perceptive enough to realize that you see right through him.
After all, Melissa is smart, conniving, and a master manipulator — which means she has a lot in common with the current A. We'll have to wait until Pretty Little Liars makes its own return in April 2017 to see what Melissa's deal is, but this character certainly deserves all of our suspicions.
Roughly half of the stories in You Know You Want This center on a woman or group of women or girls taking pleasure in being vicious, conniving, or simply gross, the last quality being the result of Roupenian's narrative doctrine to allow her characters "equal opportunity" to be disgusting, as she told Elle.
It starts out looking like a smirking satire of the fine-art world, with conniving gallery owners, an arrogant critic, various grasping artists, and many more comically unpleasant stereotypes all circling each other, looking for the next hot fad, or any other way to pull ahead in the business while stroking their own egos.
The snap showed the group – which included Louis-Dreyfus, who plays politician Selina Meyer; Tony Hale, who plays bag man Gary Walsh; Reid Scott, who plays conniving Dan Egan; Matt Walsh, who plays outdated communications director Mike McLintock, and Sam Richardson, who plays adorably incompetent aide Richard Splett – all took in their award shut-out in varying emotions.
On the side of the law (and it's a sooty side), we have Mr. Goodman (in surprisingly one-note form) as the conniving, none-too-bright sheriff; Micah Stock, doing his eccentric straight-faced thing as a cop with a penchant for amateur psychology; and Dann Florek, who has some great pompous flourishes as the corrupt mayor.
Hailed by critics for suffusing his character with fine-tuned blarney, malevolent passions and brooding gloom, Mr. Dotrice won the Tony Award for best featured actor in 2000 for his portrait of the conniving Irish father and pig farmer in an acclaimed Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten," with Gabriel Byrne and Cherry Jones.
Without giving too much away, The Testaments is a book with three narrators: one naive young girl living within Gilead; another one living outside it, in a version of Canada wracked by its controversial relationship with Gilead, which sits at its southern border; and an old, conniving, endlessly fascinating Aunt observing and puppeteering the end of her own time.
When new classmate Tammy (the always-excellent Jenny Slate) shows up and starts encouraging Tina to act out — we're talking getting drunk on margarita mix and temporary tattoos — she's blackmailed by both her conniving younger siblings Louise (Kristen Schaal) and Gene (Eugene Mirman), and Tammy, who threatens to show Tina's fiction to her longtime crush, Jimmy Jr. (H.
In the first Strike mystery, Cuckoo's Calling, we are repeatedly treated to weirdly fetishizing descriptions of mixed-race black characters and this unbelievably sweaty passage: But while Indecipherably-of-Color Is Sexy and Beautiful, Cuckoo's Calling also lingers over the conniving, grasping Blackness of another character who holds a key piece of the puzzle in the murder case.
Theo (played as a boy by Oakes Fegley and a young man by Ansel Elgort) loses his mother in a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and winds up adrift for years, shuttled from a friend's family to his conniving father's home in Las Vegas to a life in antique dealing back in New York.
A couple of the more seasoned actors, like Jenny Bacon, who plays the duke's not-long-for-this-world duchess; T. Ryder Smith who plays her conniving brother; and Derek Smith who plays both Vittoria's doomed husband and then her murderer, are able to layer three or four big, distinct emotions onto each line, to meet the play's extravagances with energy and rigor.
"President Trump does not care about anti-Semitism" Paul Waldman in The Washington Post: Trump regularly asserts that Jews do and ought to have unquestioning loyalty to Israel (he refers to Benjamin Netanyahu as "your prime minister" when talking to Jewish audiences) and describes Jews as greedy, money-grubbing, conniving schemers who only want to horde [sic] wealth and power.
The story perpetuates an old and incredibly damaging myth about false rape claims, and it does so without offering any of the twists or ironic undercuttings that Eugenides puts to such good work in the collection's other stories: The protagonist may behave badly, like a true Eugenides male character, but he's still ultimately the victim of a conniving young girl and her wicked feminine wiles.
Which is why Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's new Netflix series, The Politician, is set to be such a weirdly cathartic, tongue-in-cheek look at how today's politicians navigate the treacherous world of public office, wrestling with everything from backstabbing family members to conniving opponents to zany PR tactics, just to name a few of the misbehaviors put on display in the series' dark trailer, released this past August.
An in-depth look at how universities compromise due process norms in adjudicating sexual assault cases — and it is clear they do — is overdue; instead, the authors choose a handful of egregious examples to make the case that campus sexual assault isn't all that common and that the bigger problem is innocent young men railroaded by promiscuous women who get drunk and regret their choices, or flat-out lie at the behest of conniving campus feminists.
Francoise, the family's tireless maid, by turns looks like Giotto's figure of Charity and Anne of Brittany from Jean Bourdichon's Book of Hours (1500-08); the uninhibited courtesan Odette de Crécy, wife of Charles Swann and, later, of Baron de Forcheville, shares features with Botticelli's Zipporah in his Trials of Moses (1481-82) and, in a rare, remorseful pose, with the Graces in the same artist's Primavera (1482); the socially-savvy Robert Saint-Loup resembles a cavalier in a Watteau portrait; and Charlie Morel, the conniving violinist appears, in an unusually alluring light, like a handsome figure by Bronzino.
Nor does it explain the complete tone shift of spinoffs like the now-canceled Bachelor Pad and the more recent Bachelor in Paradise, where, through the power of editing, former contestants from both The Bachelor and The Bachelorette are portrayed as either conniving, mercenary villains or so naive that they cartoonishly appeal to raccoons and crabs for relationship advice: The franchise's editors clearly have a wry sense of humor, and as of late, they've been taking more advantage of the hundreds of hours of raw footage at their disposal, using B-roll to spackle a pastiche of audio clips and hard cuts into a narrative that frequently drifts into the surreally absurd.

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