Sentence examples for dark spy from inspiring English sources

"Scandal" is far from the only show on television to present dark spy games simply as a given, or to luxuriate in the limited procedural thrills of watching a young actor pretend to use a laptop.

Somerset Maugham, another writer of dark spy stories, once had a character say of an aspiring grand old man of letters: "It is no good his thinking that it is enough to write one or two masterpieces; he must provide a pedestal for them of forty or fifty works of no particular consequence".

A peeping Tom wanders the countryside after dark, spying on women through farmhouse windows; a child molester lurks in the last row of the local movie theater.

Returning near dark, we spied other riders cantering in, kicking up clouds of dust that were caught in the receding light.

They're lurking in dark corners, spying on us, analysing our faces with their facial-recognition software and reporting back to the mothership.

You could call "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" the dark side of "Spy Kids".

You could call this film the dark side of "Spy Kids".

His naked body had been in the bag for a week before it was discovered, so badly decomposed that the police and pathologists have been unable to determine whether he was murdered in what his family's lawyer has suggested to the court was a plot by others skilled in the "dark arts" of spy work.

When crafting a dark and violent spy thriller, it's best not to have your audience giggling to themselves during major action sequences and/or dramatic moments.

There's a moment in tonight's episode where he just appears at the worst possible moment, just slinking back into this dark corner to spy.

These are big claims; if true, they would require the rewriting of much of the history of wartime intelligence.In this section An evil weed Secrets and spies Dark deeds The house that Bob burned down An interconnected world The beauty of simplicity Reprints Related items Second-world-war spies: Veiled courageAug 4th 2005That puts Mr Stevenson's sources under close scrutiny.