Sentence examples for dark intrigues from inspiring English sources

Oliver Stone, Michael Moore and Norman Mailer have all dabbled in dark intrigues, too.

In the Potala Palace, he lived perilously close to the dark intrigues and conspiracies that had undermined his predecessors, and exposed Tibet's weakness to its overbearing neighbors.

A former ski bum with a degree from Georgetown, Mr. Baer joined the Central Intelligence Agency as a prank, spent two decades in operations, largely overseas, and fell desperately in love with life far removed from the dark intrigues and dangerous machinations of Washington.

Who said in 2001 in the newspaper Ruz-al-Yusuf that Israel was "aided" in its dark intrigues by "the infiltration of Jews into the international media" and by their diabolical ability to "spread lies"?

But those same traits also make newspapering a scene of ethical drama, dark intrigue and even tragedy.

Some picaresque plotting stands in for the dark intrigue and soon Edward's life is in danger.

Crowe convinced Manabe that the lawman was actually a villain plotting to harm him in some dark intrigue.

Billed as 'a novel of history, dark intrigue and cheese', it satisfies on two of those counts, swinging back through the branches of an English family tree.

For pure salaciousness and dark intrigue, the trial is likely to rival anything that goes on in the private back rooms of the club itself.

The Plaza Food Hall has its own small, blank entrance on Central Park South, lacking the dark intrigue of the Trader Vic's that once drew generations of mai tai seekers beneath the Plaza.

Mr. Calderazzo's writing encourages a flowing, diaphanous lyricism from the ensemble; Mr. Watts strikes up a frankly exploratory intensity; Mr. Revis works with intervals in a way that yields a kind of dark intrigue.