Sentence examples for cunning plot from inspiring English sources

In 1876 Twain had a cunning plot up his sleeve.

Pacy action, and an unfolding, cunning plot - I'm 36 and I didn't guess the ending!

Sounds like a cunning plot to capitalise on David Cameron's plan for a fairer tax system, no? Non! Pellerin insisted France remained a loyal ally on this one.

In both the United States and in Russia, the reforms which strengthened powerful vested interests didn't begin as a cunning plot by a wealthy cabal, intent on further enriching itself.

Or maybe a cunning plot twist might enable her to get dirty with Will Schuester and do a version of (I've Had) The Time of My Life – complete with the lift.

The mastermind of this cunning plot was diamond merchant Joseph Cammi Grizzardrd, who was caught after a sting operation and given seven years' penal servitude; shorter sentences in those days, but harsher regimes.

This outcome is seen by some as a defeat for the Brotherhood, even though al-Barr's chances were probably vastly exaggerated for political reasons — both by a religious establishment that is still coming to grips with Egypt's new rulers and by an opposition that is keen to denounce what it sees as cunning plots by the Muslims Brotherhood at every turn.

What he does do is both clever and plausible, thanks to Connelly's cunning plotting and John Romano's sure-handed script (a great leap forward after Nights in Rodanthe and Intolerable Cruelty).

After a month of generally pleasing football, full of false trails and cunning sub-plots with not everything quite what it seemed at the time, an anticlimax would be hard to swallow.

Moreover, despite the fundamental simplicity of the cat's nature, it remains true that the cat is cunning: he plots tirelessly against the mouse, and his ludicrous wiles require in the mouse an alert attention that he would prefer not to give.

"I have an even more cunning insider trading plot that will thwart Virginia".