Fashion is about glamour, which is about seduction, which is about intrigue, which is about suggestion.
These all created a climate of intrigue, which resulted in Nicephorus' assassination and brought John Tzimisces to the throne.
Harem intrigues, which were steadily to sap the strength and vitality of the Achaemenian Empire, led to the king's assassination in 465 bc.
The political subtext never detracts from the film's chilling dramatic effect and the air of intrigue, which intensifies in the very final scene.
A tale of political intrigue which parodies modern attitudes to the church as well as Westminster, it is assumed to have been written by Letts.
The old cars are gone, replaced by the compact Alero and the midsize Intrigue, which both borrowed watered-down styling cues from the Aurora.
Going for muted, eyeliner- and nearly irony-free, he plays an ordinary American who bumbles into a Continental intrigue, which looks like a film you've seen before, because you have.
In fact, the love affair holds up better than the political intrigue, which slacks off in suspense as the story stretches into modern times and reaches for moral relevance.
There, Andrus gets caught in the crossfire of Kruger's intrigues, which involve a spoiled young actor (George Hamilton), the starlet Kruger is bedding, a snarky journalist, and the mercenary Italian producer, whose constraints induce Kruger to hire Andrus as his right-hand man and get him a start at work behind the camera.
The machinations of the Ibrox boardroom and the web of intrigue which has been weaved around the club have, from this correspondent's viewpoint, been embraced with something approaching apathy by huge swathes of the support.
