They wander in a dark Machiavellian universe lit only by pinpricks of mercy to light their way. |
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By 1971, Leider was burnt out from the intense, Machiavellian politics of the New York art world. |
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Moreover, the Machiavellian in me cannot help but wryly shake the head in perverse tribute to what the Cubic boys have pulled off. |
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In the tang of a gathering sea breeze, listening to the click of pawls as winches spun, all the Machiavellian intrigue faded. |
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It's the only job I've ever been at all Machiavellian about because, as far as I was concerned, it had my name on it. |
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Then in steps the villain, with an almost Machiavellian intent to wreck the perfectly cosy relationship that the two lovers have built up. |
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In Sir Humphrey's hands, Hacker is merely the ball in a Machiavellian game of political ping-pong. |
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Long aware that he was a Machiavellian degenerate, the University dismissed him and suggested he leave the country. |
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Like all good cabals, it is hard to know exactly who belongs to the Establishment and how Machiavellian their meddling is. |
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Nancy Reagan was reviled as a Hollywood airhead until she was reviled as a secret Machiavellian. |
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But the region will pay a heavy price for his folly unless the scandal swirling around him delivers the world from his Machiavellian designs. |
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It's almost like the Machiavellian housing policies that coerced them into the outer schemes in the first place have been super successful. |
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Most of them, with Machiavellian cunning, were refusing to answer their telephones. |
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Cavendish is appropriating Machiavellian virtu as a female as well as male quality. |
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He is a man of Falstaffian appetites, Machiavellian instincts, and Svengali-like charms. |
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This revelation is most definitely not spin, leaked as part of a Machiavellian plot. |
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However, I am pursuing a different sense of the protean term Machiavellian in what follows. |
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He is not a cynic or a Machiavellian in any traditionally understood sense. |
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However, his inner and outer selves are constant and we do not see, in his monologues, the base evil of his Machiavellian soul. |
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Reuther's political success cannot be read solely in terms of Machiavellian politics. |
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Professor Burland has been working on the stabilization committee for the last ten years under all sorts of Machiavellian pressures and politics. |
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Wrong is correct in emphasizing how Mobutu, the cunning Machiavellian prince, managed to acquire considerable outside help. |
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But however astute or realist Burnham's Machiavellian insight into power politics was, he rarely showed any capacity for canny negotiation himself. |
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What seemed initially to be a positive sign, the famous constitutional reform, quickly became an utterly Machiavellian project. |
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It has been argued that Cavour's acceptance of the free trade and international convertibility regime is patent evidence of his Machiavellian approach to politics. |
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There are so many poignant lines about Machiavellian politics and acting that I might try out here, that remaining silent would probably be my best course. |
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An accomplished Machiavellian, he used his ill-gotten wealth and his powers of patronage to outfox potential opponents and to keep wavering officials in line. |
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Simon Russell Beale's Cassius is not so much the scheming Machiavellian, but a timid, bullied character, more resentful than envious of those who hold office. |
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Successful Machiavellians are far more interesting than the ones who botch it up or do it so obviously that they some how lose the Machiavellian nature of it in the process! |
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Whereas the former was a Machiavellian autocrat with a fascist background, the latter is a straightforward, consensus-driven and politically moderate. |
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El Comandante used his Machiavellian bag of tricks to fuel a spoils system and political juggernaut that Venezuelans worshiped. |
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She is popular within the Democratic caucus, and there is no apparent Machiavellian maneuvering to unseat her. |
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In your work life, you're up to your neck in Machiavellian intrigue. |
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Every time he avowed that he wanted to be admired, not liked, Mr. Giuliani was, in Mr. Siegel's view, laying claim to his Machiavellian princeliness. |
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The truth, though, is more complicated, and shows Hillary to be less a Machiavellian liar than a woman whose guardedness leads to self-sabotage. |
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That is where you have a great deal of talent, even extraordinary, Machiavellian talent. |
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But I assume that is only a coincidence and not a calculated Machiavellian act. |
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Quebec will not subject itself to such a decision, and the Conservative government's intentions are Machiavellian. |
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To the outsider, unfamiliar with the Machiavellian world of Olympic politics, Gadir may have seemed a surprising choice as his country's IOC representative. |
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We tend to view politicians either as Machiavellian schemers or as dolts. |
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According to Gandz, business leaders are more likely to act according to Machiavellian principles rather than those of human relations. |
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However, the game does not have its full Machiavellian flavour with only 2 players. |
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If you want to be a Machiavellian, do not expect to enjoy a long career. |
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To avoid ending on a serious note, the cinematic Shiva turns mischievous Machiavellian. |
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He was courageous, Machiavellian, pragmatic possibly to a fault, and ready always to cut corners and make deals. |
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This is the most egregious example of that because it smacks of partisan politics and Machiavellian manoeuvring at the expense of our brave men and women in uniform. |
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I trust that we can convince them that Parliament is the place where we have time and inclination to listen to them rather than being too busy, mired in Machiavellian calculation and mudslinging. |
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Just how Machiavellian were some of Mr. Paterson's laugh lines? |
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But suddenly the lutanist has no place in Henry's new Machiavellian world of naked power politics. |
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The prosecution describes the accused as a blood-thirsty pervert, the Machiavellian liar and a serial-killer yet he appears as a quiet family man, both comic and terrifying in his banality. |
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Telecom Italia's Machiavellian corporate culture defeats even Italians: what would it do to the ex-civil-servants in Deutsche Telekom's middle management Even if the deal fails, it may have already damaged Deutsche Telekom. |
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The implication is that without the fluffier but politically appealing bits of human space exploration, space science would not do so well. That is a nice, almost Machiavellian argument to keep the scientists on side. |
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Iago is the Machiavellian antagonist in William Shakespeare's play, Othello. |
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It is Machiavellian, in the sense that it revolves around the question of how to maintain power. |
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He speaks so calmly and polysyllabically that people fail to appreciate the Machiavellian ambition inside. |
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Fraser argues that the Queen was a scapegoat, accused of being, at once, a frivolous, featherbrained hedonist and a dangerous, Machiavellian plotter. |
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But one Machiavellian interpretation of events doing the rounds in Madrid sees Mr Botin having ambitions, in the longer run, to install a new chief executive perhaps his daughter, Ana Patricia Botin. |
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Although the Gonzagas' dynastic ambitions ruined them, their collecting set a European standard for two centuries. The dukes of Mantua were no more lovable or attractive than other princes of their Machiavellian age. |
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Perhaps, however, we should not dream too much, since we know that they are not free to choose that route, which goes against the Machiavellian schemes of their patron. |
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In conclusion, let me say the ramifications of Bill C-2 as it is currently worded are far-reaching, even Machiavellian, in their implications for naturist freedoms. |
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From a Machiavellian viewpoint, can this kind of attitude guarantee effectively that such and such an enlightened conservative' or such and such a progressive' will reap the lucrative benefits of re-election? |
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Going back to 1997, when the government started running surpluses, it has been absolutely Machiavellian how the government has handled the manipulation of the surpluses that the country has run since that time. |
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However, I also quite rightly emphasize that we should not dream too much, as we know that they are not free to choose that path, which is contrary to their masters' Machiavellian designs. |
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The senator, a college gridiron star, has a coldly Machiavellian widow. |
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Such is the content of the Prince in which the writer, from the princehood of his imagination, offers advice on how to conquer and rule like a true Machiavellian virtuoso. |
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The Discourses, with its recommendation of virtue and republicanism, on the other hand, is thought of as an inconsistent extravagation from the true Machiavellian position. |
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Hoult swaggers through the blood-soaked melee in style, inspiring fear and loathing in equal measure as his Machiavellian puppetmaster jostles for superiority. |
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Holding the meeting in Egypt is a Machiavellian way to look international but in reality to prevent hoi Interent polloi from attending the meeting. |
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