Sentence examples for hidden intrigues from inspiring English sources

Putin himself has not been reluctant to express his sense of such hidden intrigues.

A town so tight knit and far from mainstream society is full of hidden intrigues and eccentrics, and the longer one stays the more engaging are its complexities.

"Leys" was a homage to "René Leys", a novel by the French author Victor Segalen, in which a Belgian teenager in old Peking regales his employer with tales of the hidden intrigues and conspiracies taking place within the imperial palace.Like René, Mr Ryckmans was Belgian.

That his past is something Zummo will need to keep hidden in this city of intrigue and religious orthodoxy is clear from his arrival, when he sees the heads of "Sodomites" spiked on the battlements of the Bargello prison.

He always paints the entire canvas before covering one half in aluminium foil, building a sense of intrigue around the hidden portion.

Daniel MacArthur is intrigued by the prospect that hidden in the human population are people who lack certain genes yet remain healthy.

With only a few million dollars, Osama bin Laden created his army of commandos hidden within a shadowy matrix of indirection and intrigue.

But we're more interested in another kind of intrigue — the kind found within objects and places hidden in plain sight.

But hidden amongst the stacks was also a collection of documents that would intrigue the soccer public too.

I've always been a slave to intrigue — I was raised on a steady diet of Nancy Drew novels, and secret passwords, hidden passages and cryptic clues were my domain.

I am intrigued, and hiding under loaves of bread to hear about their weekend recap.