| Illness in African society is often attributed to the breaking of a taboo or machinations of malicious or sometimes displeased ancestral spirits. |
| The convolutions eventually snare the corrupt powerbrokers in their own deceptive political machinations. |
| The crafty machinations of the camera yield the spontaneity of the snapshot. |
| The story is a simple one of the machinations of a rich society girl and her various romantic escapades on the eve of her wedding to a dullard. |
| The machinations of the plot, of course, might be hard to follow if they weren't so meaningless. |
| But Fontaine was also slowed by the gridlock created by internal Liberal Party machinations. |
