It was an enigmatic and devious response from the ultimate enigmatic and devious man.
There is a conceptual barrier to understanding the problems that officials might face in regulating crowdfunding, owing to the failure of prevailing economic models to account for the manipulative and devious aspects of human behaviour.
form tight bonds with friends and allies that are as intricate and devious as those of humans.
"Naseer is a very devious and calculating man.
Government-owned media outlets, citing security officials, now speak ominously of the need to crack down on a purported fifth column of activists, including human-rights organisations, pursuing a devious foreign agenda.With most of Egypt's non-Islamist parties expressing unquestioning support for the new, military-backed order, former revolutionaries feel increasingly alienated.
A modern awareness that human affairs are not transparent, but devious, complex and unpredictable, dates from the Italian Renaissance with its mixture of ruthlessness, ambition, fantasy, failure and self-knowledge given voice by the first modern political thinker, Niccolò Machiavelli.
Regardless, men (and women) who harbor such politically devious, opportunistic and schizophrenic behavior are very untoward human beings and would serve all of us better by refraining from engaging in public matters and policy.
Theories of climate change, he opines, are rooted not in scientific data, but in human greed: they were hatched by devious scientists to secure federal funding for their research.
Vampires in this world are wealthy, devious and powerful, but no more appealing than their human selves.
The most devastating, AIDS, is caused by a devious, patient virus that wages slow-motion war against the human body, with mortal consequences for millions.
