Sentence examples for clandestine act from inspiring English sources

Like many of Buñuel's Mexican films "Death in the Garden" works at once as a commercial genre picture (the gunplay scenes show Buñuel to be an accomplished action director) and as a clandestine act of social subversion.

There is no recognition of the pain caused, and no relief in this report - which I think does make clear that this administrative scheme was a grubby clandestine act of appeasement, specifically appeasing Sinn Féin and the republican movement.

We are entering an era when a single person can, by one clandestine act, cause millions of deaths or render a city uninhabitable for years, and when a malfunction in cyberspace can cause havoc worldwide to a significant segment of the economy: air transport, power generation, or the financial system.

Historically, some of the most sensitive meetings and operational clandestine acts were handled by the spouses of C.I.A. officers, at least in part because they were often not suspected of involvement and so did not attract as much attention.

"Perfect," he suggested, "for a romantic comedy — no?" DRAWING BOARD Last March, Sophie Blackall, a 39-year-old Brooklyn artist, stumbled across the Missed Connections listings after a long addiction to eavesdropping and visiting Web sites like postsecret.com where people write anonymously about clandestine acts — "I was in contact with my husband's favorite hooker to find out what he wants".

Henceforth, employees will patrol the toilets to ensure that they are being used for their intended purpose (ie clandestine acts of sexual intercourse), and people found hammering nails into their skulls will be asked politely to leave and take their apparatus with them.

Power for him is a coldly erotic turn-on: "'Twas only fear first in the world made gods," he declares in a scene where Doran has him working himself up to this rhetorical climax in an act of clandestine, dominant buggery.

"Every party represents a kind of protest," said Nardone, who will continue to throw clandestine events as an act of resistance against this electronic music crackdown.

The New York Daily News reported in 2013 that "Mexican drug cartels are recruiting American soldiers to act as clandestine hit men in the United States, paying them thousands of dollars to assassinate federal informants and organized crime rivals".

Heady moments of clandestine planning lead to thrilling acts of subversion as the janitors disrupt a power lunch and crash a moment of corporate self-congratulation with roaring vacuum cleaners as real-life movie stars look on.

The Friends of Abe has acted as a clandestine club for Hollywood conservatives for more than a decade, hosting secret events where they could vent rightwing views and hear speeches from visiting Tea Party luminaries.