Sentence examples for crooked ways from inspiring English sources

More interesting, at least initially, was the continuing investigation into Luther's ostensibly crooked ways.

"Let this serve as a warning to those who intend to continue the crooked ways that have become the norm for too long".

But most newly elected Republican senators, who promised during the campaign to keep their colleagues honest and resist the crooked ways of Washington, eagerly endorsed the idea.

"This is the first time I blessed hamburger," said the Rev. Ed Sombilon of Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church in Fort Lee, N.J. "But God works in mysterious ways, even crooked ways".

Then he meets Nina (Halle Berry), sheds his old, crooked ways and starts anew by, shockingly, telling the truth.

Somehow, Stark retains his robust public appeal, at least until his crooked ways catch up with him.

(Let's suspend our disbelief for at least this paragraph, O.K.?) After the group fell apart, Marty stuck to jazz's romantic, druggy, penurious, crooked way, while Daniel, now a successful textile manufacturer, renounced music (his daughter doesn't even know she has an uncle) and walked the repressed, buttoned-down straight road all the way to the bank.

An explanation for the extraordinary power of "Noon Wine", which has often and understandably been described as a modernist Greek tragedy, is given by Porter in a 1956 essay: it is "a story of the most painful moral and emotional confusions", she writes, "in which everyone concerned, yes, in his own crooked way, even Mr Hatch, is trying to do right".

Climbing out of the cove, winding his way up the crooked path, Kype got banged up pretty good, but he had his ashes and his gun, and over there, parked in front of the chief's yard, was the Eldorado.

The Crooked Path (2016, March 26).

But in a crooked and ironic way, Pat summed it up best: "In Berlin, you never have to stop".