Sentence examples for shenanigans real from inspiring English sources

The other is a European intrigue featuring a vast array of ingenues, psychics and shady government operatives, caught up in the shenanigans (real and imaginary) of pre-war "Great Game" diplomacy, with the cataclysm of the war itself looming ever closer.

He likes it for "its sense, among all the crazy, twisted, duplicitous shenanigans, of real, human heartbreak".

"There were some real shenanigans going on in the South Carolina primary," Mr. Clyburn said on a radio show.

But if the volunteers Mr. Shiner recruits from the audience to assist in his woolly shenanigans are actually real amateurs, well, then, as Dorothy Parker once wagged — spoiler alert!

What happens on camera is often inspired by shenanigans IRL ("in real life," an abbreviation that Jacobson would hate for me to use).

Unfortunately, Albany's politics-as-usual shenanigans are halting real change for women in New York.

We've drawn our most talented young people into financial shenanigans, rather than into creating real businesses, making real discoveries, providing real services to others.

The "neither this nor that" quality torpedoes any hope of accepting its characters and their far-fetched shenanigans as anything resembling real life.

The complicated online back story shouldn't detour those who haven't been partaking in the real world shenanigans.

Then there was President Christian Wulff, who resigned over some illegal real-estate shenanigans.

But real-life sexual shenanigans do happen when a company's out on tour.