Sentence examples for ploys for from inspiring English sources

But conceptualism proved to be a miscellany of ploys for exalting ideas over objects.

Its funniest sections involve Lola's flagrant ploys for extorting favors from various men, which turns out to be the second thing she is very good at.

Her relentless exhibitionism (she boasts of having once masturbated on an Austrian television show) makes Madonna's most flamboyant ploys for attention seem demure.

The stories of his outraged behaviour in restaurants and hotels, his subtle ploys for getting a drink when he needed one, become real for the children, too.

Kiffin said he has tried to tone things down at U.S.C., and he said his stunts at Tennessee were publicity ploys for a program in need of a jump start.

The trial routine became shorter and shorter, and the women's ploys for attention increasingly desperate (and dangerous, as high kicks sent more than one spike heel sailing across the studio).

Has his ploy for attention worked?

— Forgive the title, a shameless ploy for attention.

"This is no longer a ploy for the next election.

Her reinvention is merely a ploy for mainstream success, right?

I think it's frozen," Alex moaned, in a ploy for maternal sympathy.