Sentence examples for insidious tricks from inspiring English sources
Movies have taught us to love the superficially awkward, the lovable loser, and those movies use all sorts of insidious tricks to appeal to the loser in all of us.
I too used to write scathing essays about the evils of advertising and insidious marketing tricks that prey on the desire to be cool, and now I not only work at Vice, where we are very open about our branding methodology, I also took a free trip just to write about how awesome it was.
The channeling by the prosecutor is an insidious rhetorical trick calculated to inflame the passions and prejudices of the jury.
The efforts were large and small, from the insidious to old-fashioned dirty tricks.
With amusing self-awareness, Mr. Wan (his earlier movies include "Saw" and "Insidious") leans on the usual genre tricks throughout, making you jump with hard edits and doors being squeaked open by unseen hands.
In "Blackhat," the ideology is insidious and its effect is anti-aesthetic, throwing Mann back on old tricks executed with a corporate blandness.
Ballet Hispanico theatricalized Latin dancing, especially the rumba, in an excerpt from "Club Havana" (2000, to an insidious music medley), but Pedro Ruiz's choreography relied on the same few tricks in each section.
He cites the insidious effects of managing earnings -- when companies massage their income figures through accounting tricks -- and the growing wave of stock options that dilute the equity of corporate America.
Addiction is such an insidious disease, and the more people know about it -- especially the fact that it plays tricks on your mind, that it's not just about what it does to your body -- the better, I believe.
These books are insidious.
