Sentence examples for both devious from inspiring English sources

If the processes involved sound both devious and uncontrollable, the effect is curiously poetic.

Luckily, Cheryl is both devious and complicated enough to hold our attention.

"I'm a little in awe in terms of how she's transformed herself," said Marc Cherry, an executive producer of both "Devious Maids" and "Desperate Housewives," who cast Ms. Longoria in 2004.

He was in fact both very devious and very randy".

For his services he was well paid by the Government, both through devious and secret support payments to his wife and, it may be inferred, by executed promises not to pursue the indictments under which he was charged at the time he became an informer.

You are both calculating and devious".

With their often impossibly elevated views, their deep optical fields (boats on the horizon are as clear as the figures on the beach below us) and tiered perspectives, Hiroshige's prints are both captivating and devious.

This ability would enable a creature to recognize the likelihood that their perceptions are deceiving them (e.g. that water in the distance may be a mirage) and behave accordingly, and it could also facilitate the manipulation of others by recognizing how things appear to them for both cooperative and devious ends.

Perry warms to Capote's attentions, and the rest of the movie turns into a complicated struggle between the two of them, with a desperate Perry telling Capote enough of his story to try to motivate the writer to help him, and a devious Capote both kid-gloving and bullying Perry until he opens up and describes the night of the murders.

Tobias Beer is both the repressive Murdstone and the feckless Micawber, Simeon Truby plays the benign Peggotty and the sadistic Creakle, while Jake Norton reveals both the dashing and the devious sides of villainy by switching fluently between Steerforth and Uriah Heep.

Remembered as both a "brilliant" and a "devious" political tactician, Reinhardt was among those most responsible for the successful campaigns of Bradley and former Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., among others.