Sentence examples for conniving man from inspiring English sources

Wilfred tries to tell himself, as the serial killer of "A Good Marriage" does, that someone else is the author of this awful act: "I believe," he writes, a few years after the event, "that there is another man inside of every man, a stranger, a Conniving Man," and that it was this evil double who did the deed.

State Sen. R. Clayton Clay Davisis, excellently portrayed by actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. on "The Wire," was a corrupt and conniving man with a catchphrase that consisted of one word/slur pronounced over an exaggerated amount of time.

Derek McLane's set neatly captures the period and the irony of a wealthy, snobbish man conniving in a subterranean home.

And there are cynical performances such as Romance, implying women are sentimental dolts, men conniving cads.

A first half invoking Wilde – grotesque relatives and young men conniving in disguise – gives way to a second that is darkly indebted to Beckett.

(The weathered-looking set is by Dan Ostling, the bright, traditional costumes by Mara Blumenfeld.) We see the actors giving the good old-fashioned hard sell to buffo scenarios about miserly old men, conniving maids and wily harlequins.

Karen later gets revenge, but is depicted as just as seedy and conniving as the men who had partaken in this bet and exploited her.

The first, set in the street, introduces the Student to the conniving Old Man and his world of lost souls, living and dead.

And while she said she now found it "empowering" to talk of what happened, tears seeped from her eyes as she revisited the memories: Azzad was her demon and her father, a man callously conniving and yet strangely pitiable.

The selectively chosen e-mails make Ms. Taymor's writing partner on "Spider-Man," Glen Berger, appear conniving as he sought to draft new scenes in cahoots with the producers, Bono and the Edge.

But her delicacy was laced with the devil, which came through when she played ambitious Jo March in Little Women, and later, in the adaptation of The Crucible, that nasty myth about conniving females who bring down good men with their delusional accusations.