Raising capital for companies is an exercise in endurance, patience and unfortunately some gamesmanship.
Maybe it was some gamesmanship".
Or it could be just some gamesmanship.
He eventually realized that he was too reserved to get far in a literary world that required some talent for social gamesmanship, and in 1903 he moved to the island of Guernsey, a hundred miles off the south coast of England, where his brother Frank had gone into business as a tomato farmer.
At the last it was Kelly and Rich, the one making a plea for personhood, the other for gamesmanship.
For all its reputation for gamesmanship and whingeing, Italian sport has frequently been a means of enriching, even saving, lives: think of Gino Bartali, the great cyclist of the 1940s and 50s who, during the war, worked with the Jewish resistance, carrying clandestine documents in the tubes of his bicycle.
Mr. Vollmann has such a penchant for glittery meta-elaboration, for relentless, spoofy gamesmanship that he leaves the saturated reader begging for surcease.
The delay provides ample opportunity for psychological gamesmanship.
It's far better to read "Bone by Bone" for its gamesmanship than for its plotting.
I'd call it sleazy if I didn't have a soft spot for bizarro gamesmanship.
