Sentence examples for old gambit from inspiring English sources

It seemed to me an old gambit, in case he wanted to get away early; but, as it happened, he was in no rush.

Far too hippy-druggy -- new age". Self-mockery as self-protection is a very old gambit, certainly, but it is beneath a writer as brilliant as Mitchell.

Self-mockery as self-protection is a very old gambit, certainly, but it is beneath a writer as brilliant as Mitchell.

This is an old gambit of Roth's, and the one that probably annoys his detractors most; they can't figure out whose side he's on.

"I am anticipating they will do something and call it a peaceful satellite launch — an old gambit by Pyongyang as we saw in 2012 and one that has no credibility," said Daniel Sneider, an East Asia specialist at Stanford University.

Nor has Radiohead abandoned its old gambits.

Some old gambits never fade away, they just go on creating wild ruckuses.

Enron 's wrinkle has long been "divide and disavow," and it seems that, for the bankrupt energy trader and its lawyers, old gambits die hard.

This is one of the oldest gambits in the tabloid book.

One of pop's oldest gambits is to draw irony from the contrast of sad tidings with cheerful music, but early-1970's hits just seem disconnected.

But the differences between his subtle and attentive portraits and older gambits at social and physiognomic taxonomy in Ms. Fineman's show are obvious.