Sentence examples for insidious designs from inspiring English sources

Late political events have convinced me that the whole transaction was intended as a blind to the protestant and high church party - that the noble Duke might the more effectually carry on his insidious designs for the infringement of our liberties, and the introduction of popery into every department of the state". The closing letters must suffice.

This insidious design was compounded by the general slippage in Nixon's political position, with his expansion of the war into Cambodia attracting widespread opposition, the 1973 oil-price shock taking its toll and the huge costs of the war coming home in the shape of rising inflation – and all of this capped by the unfolding Watergate scandal.

The incongruity is that these villains who would destroy us are to be permitted to contrive to destroy us, under the guise that their efforts are directed against those insidious forces designed to destroy us.

In the year 2059, Lt. Eve Dallas battles an insidious computer virus designed to spread to humans; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.

The cluster bombs of boldfaced manipulation now being dropped with insidious regularity are designed to convince whole demographics that BS outranks the old truths.

As another master of New England gothic, Robert Frost, wrote in his own little fantasy of insidious whiteness: "What but design of darkness to appall?

These kinds of crimes are particularly insidious, because they are designed to instill fear in an entire community.

WILLIAMS: We can't design against the insidious.

Supporters of Darwin see intelligent design as more insidious than creationism, especially given that many of its advocates have mainstream scientific credentials, which creationists often lack.

You have to see those browsers, with all their irritating little features and insidious ads and prompts, all those designs that have become embedded in your subconscious mind, magnified to the size of Stonehenge.

Ultz's ugly design spells out the insidious racial hierarchy but makes the action seem trapped in a lift shaft.