Sentence examples for outlandish schemes from inspiring English sources

What they shared was a rough charm that they used to persuade others to go along with what must often have seemed outlandish schemes.

His descriptions of the dirt-poor Neapolitan aristocrats who fed him information, and their outlandish schemes for political reform, had me laughing for days on end.

Tells about some of his outlandish schemes to promote publicity for the various prizefighters he has handles, including Willard, Tunney, and Carpentier.

For his part, Mr Rubin has described his project as a "moonshot" – the term Google applies to its slightly more outlandish schemes, such as self-driving cars and using a network of blimps to bounce internet signals to remote regions.

In his zeal to import mad-dog serial killers to the peaceable kingdom of his native Norway, Jo Nesbo is compelled to devise some pretty outlandish schemes to occupy Inspector Harry Hole, his maverick detective on the Oslo crime squad.

During Dubai's boom years, developers built increasingly outlandish schemes including the "seven-star" hotel Burj Al Arab and a 22,500 sq m ski resort on the edge of the desert.

So the former spy, running his network with money from unidentified donors, came up with an outlandish scheme that seems to come straight from the C.I.A.'s past playbook of covert operations.

This priceless crime caper takes the disaster-prone burglar John Dortmunder to upstate New York, where he and his gang of goofs team up with some out-of-state con artists on an outlandish scheme to bamboozle two Indian tribes out of a piece of their casinos.

"It is an outlandish scheme".

Federal agents have acknowledged in court that they didn't know whether Crawford was serious about his outlandish scheme at first and in any case experts have said the ray gun would have been impractical even had it been constructed.

Each outlandish scheme proposed during the fun-run take, in which the actors ad-lib, has Samberg wound up and playing with what they've doled out (e.g., the script's mention of Tonya Harding becomes a one-liner about the ice skater turned tabloid staple that would make for a charming hand-stitched pillow: "Crazy in life, crazy in bed").. FULL COVERAGE: FALL TV Preview 2013.