Sentence examples for duplicitous character from inspiring English sources

Based on this encounter Searle invented Roy Courtnay, a charming but self-serving, duplicitous character.

4. George Wickham in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Handsome, charming and charismatic: Austen's George Wickham is one duplicitous character who manages to elude any repercussion for having affairs, seducing women and piling up gambling debts.

But he then evasively denies that the Almanacs' volte-face was "grossly opportunistic" and calls it "at least a sincere reaction to changing times" — as if opportunism and sincerity were the matters at issue, and not the essentially duplicitous character of Communist Party politics.

How's that for duplicitous character acting?

If we ratchet down the scale of deception to a much more intimate level, we end up examining the behavior of a very duplicitous character who has become so skilled at living a lie that it may be impossible for him to remember who he really is.

When the duplicitous characters pursued their favorite pastime of offing one another, out came the sticky stuff (chocolate sauce and whipped cream, as well as jam and trifle), to be smeared over faces and bodies.

There is no evidence that Ian Fleming ever met her, but she is said to have inspired his duplicitous characters Tatiana Romanova in From Russia with Love, and Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale.

After discussing his many duplicitous characters — such as Briony Tallis, the precocious adolescent of his 2001 novel, "Atonement," who ruins two lives when she makes a false accusation of rape — McEwan pointed to a "study in cognitive psychology" suggesting that "the best way to deceive someone is first to deceive yourself," because you're more convincing when you're sincere.

"About Adam" rests almost entirely on the shoulders of Stuart Townsend, who brings to the movie's duplicitous title character a winningly light touch.

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He also meets Emile, a droll former Foreign Legionnaire played by Mr. Depardieu Kasparr, a duplicitous Iago-like character acted by Mr. Skarsgard; and, for a love interest, Sophie, a headstrong archaeologist played by Ms. McElhone.