Sentence examples for cunning scheme from inspiring English sources

"It was a cunning scheme that fell under its own weight," said United States Attorney Robert J. Cleary.

The loudest fight is a tussle between Iron Man and the Hulk, which is part of a cunning scheme to rip the Avengers apart.

The clicking monster was also part of Leland's cunning scheme to prevent me from playing everything as fast as I possibly could.

Are you sure you're not in the Truman Show and the subject of a cunning scheme designed to make you lose it?

A cunning scheme for selling a book at Christmas without having to pay an author is to republish the work of someone long dead.

At "The Future in Review", a wide-ranging technology conference held in San Diego earlier this year, Allen Hammond of the World Resources Institute, an environmental think-tank, outlined a cunning scheme to provide e-mail access in rural India using buses.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the adjective has come to mean "cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics".

To Bush, like Chomsky, Bush is a clever and brilliant leader full of subtle and cunning schemes to manipulate events inside Iran.

Recruited from "fiery chaos" by Odin; he is an embittered Ariel, a Caliban with brains whose cunning schemes invariably end in tears.

Machiavellian - cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics or in advancing one's career.

Because his name has come to have such dreadful connotations, everyone assumes that anything he had to say must be, well -- cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous.