Sentence examples for a cunning plot from inspiring English sources

In 1876 Twain had a cunning plot up his sleeve.

Sounds like a cunning plot to capitalise on David Cameron's plan for a fairer tax system, no? Non! Pellerin insisted France remained a loyal ally on this one.

In both the United States and in Russia, the reforms which strengthened powerful vested interests didn't begin as a cunning plot by a wealthy cabal, intent on further enriching itself.

Or maybe a cunning plot twist might enable her to get dirty with Will Schuester and do a version of (I've Had) The Time of My Life – complete with the lift.

"And it is a cunning plot to cover up the criminal nature of the U.S. posing nuclear threats to the D.P.R.K. and divert the public attention at home and abroad elsewhere".

One morning recently, for 37 minutes, my husband talked to me about light bulbs: how their life expectancy is woefully overcalculated, why they have become so expensive, how the new "efficient" models are a cunning plot by manufacturers to make us spend still more.

Agatha Christie fans should catch a showing of the exotic baffler, "Death on the Nile" (1978), with a typically cunning plot and fine cast headed by Peter Ustinov, as sleuth Hercule Poirot, Mia Farrow, Maggie Smith, Bette Davis and David Niven.

Of a fiendishly cunning plot to frustrate young love, in which it had become necessary to procure a play-dead potion, Mitchell's brimming "I can't see how it can possibly go wrong" had much of the hubristic glee in seeing it coming of a Mainwaring, a Hancock.

Pacy action, and an unfolding, cunning plot - I'm 36 and I didn't guess the ending!

Filmed on the French-Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the eighth series of the award-winning drama will continue to keep audiences guessing with intriguing mysteries, cunning plot twists and a star-studded array of guest cast.

Some even claim the Bolshevik Revolution was little more than a cunning Zionist plot to destroy the nation.