Sentence examples for deceitful characters from inspiring English sources

The line, from Pride and Prejudice, states: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!", but it said by one of Austen's most deceitful characters in a bid to snare the hero, Mr Darcy.

It was these confusing, contradictory role models, coupled with her insecure childhood, that led her to gravitate to unbalanced, volatile relationships with domineering and deceitful characters such as John Levy, James Monroe and Joe Guy.

A quick text search in Pride and Prejudice turns up just the thing: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!" The trouble is that these words are spoken by one of Austen's most deceitful characters, a woman who has no interest in books at all: Caroline Bingley.

As Anna Bolena, Ms. Sills twists, sometimes piteously, sometimes hysterically, on a hook of the deceitful character's own contriving, and if the overall effort falls short of the other two, the fault lies with the ramshackle construction of the drama.

BEN GREENMAN: The layman's view of the agent is of a fast-talking, profane, deceitful character who will do absolutely anything to get his client ahead of the competition.

Furious Muslim critics complained that the Lego set's Asian and oriental figures were "deceitful and criminal" characters, like gun-runners, slave masters and terrorists.

An increasingly marginalised Scott left No 10 in 2003 for the City, and the following year he published his book Off Whitehall, which created a stir because it was a first-hand account of the rows between Brown and Blair and highlighted the former's "destructive and deceitful behaviour" and character failings.

Mentalizing about a situation involving intentional deception on the part of the acting character and not recognizing the deceitful intent on the part of the passive character additionally activates left orbitofrontal lateral, inferior, and medial frontal cortex, as seen in the contrasts of DEC vs COOP and COOPDEC, respectively, and in the contrast COOPDEC vs DEC.

Our stories were designed to force subjects to reason about (cooperative and deceitful) intentions of the story characters, whereas the study by Sommer et al. (2007) used stories where the knowledge of a story character had to be inferred.

Contrary to what Dilbert might have us believe, leaders' gaps in self-awareness are rarely due to deceitful, Machiavellian motives, or severe character deficits.

In contrast, we hypothesised that the representation of a scenario depicting a character's concealed deceitful intention would recruit additional brain activation [14].