Sentence examples for devious point from inspiring English sources

Which is the devious point of this budding series about budding Brooklyn malcontents.

It was that and much more: witty, woeful, devious and delirious to the point of obsession.

It begins with the break-up of the marriage and moves anti-chronologically back over seven years of devious, self-deceiving behaviour to the point at which the seeds of adultery were sown in a drunken pass at a party.

Clothing for 'The Devious But Cute Puppy': Head: Tiara.

That Bond, facing a laser pointed at him by the devious Auric Goldfinger, maintained his signature cool: "Do you expect me to talk?" he asked.

Like most other people I find his argument on this point to be tortured, transparent, self-serving, devious and irritating.

Lincoln's speech is more elaborately devious and often more introspective, reaching a lyrical high point in his monologue about the different clients in the shooting gallery.

The devious achievement of Blue Velvet is to use its audience to demonstrate its point: that we're all fascinated by depravity.

But he points out with Aristotle that happiness comes in many and devious forms.

There has been a small, but noisy, reflex reaction against "Devious Maids," because it casts Hispanic actresses as cleaning ladies, which is missing the point.

Those who point to the dead of Iraq and Afghanistan are surely doing so as a devious way of justifying the slaughter of a young soldier outside his barracks.