Sentence examples similar to a wicked scheme from inspiring English sources

It is a cultish novel: a gothic tale of orphans and a wicked, scheming relative.

In 1961, he turned a story he had written for Esquire into a television comedy called "The Wicked Scheme of Jebel Deeks," which was broadcast on Ford Startime to critical praise and starred Alec Guinness in his American television debut.

Not a metaphor, not a far-off citadel of wicked, scheming politicians but a real place, filled with real people – as vulnerable to an act of murderous violence as anybody else.

Blame pusillanimous senators if you like, or the wicked scheming of the gun lobby.

Katsoulis has made valiant attempts to apply a scholarly framework to her collection of tall tales and their tellers, but what really comes across is her pleasure at their wayward, wicked schemes.

The courtship of the couple is sweet, their subsequent marriage is blissful, and all seems well until Fa Hai, a wicked holy man, schemes to sabotage their happiness.

It's a built tough rig with a wicked cool pixelated camo scheme.

Owing less to Michel Hazanavicius than to than to Abel Gance, Tod Browning, Luis Buñuel, and arguably Guy Maddin, this reworking of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves follows the changing fortunes of a wounded bullfighter's daughter (Sofia Oria and Macarena García) struggling to escape the schemes of a wicked stepmother, played with tangible relish by Maribel Verdú.

My wife is a wicked, wicked person.

A wicked libel, of course.

A wicked sandstorm.