Sentence examples for sort of insidious from inspiring English sources

And yet they're curiously effective, so confident in their misfires that they achieve a sort of insidious charm.

And so when Richard Dawkins says in all seriousness, "so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes; whether that has a sort of insidious effect on rationality, I'm not sure," we know he has made a category error.

Read as a whole, the Epstein piece strongly suggested that what "happened to Strauss-Kahn," as the title would have it, is that he was the victim of some sort of insidious conspiracy coördinated at the highest level of the French government.

He sums up the customer loyalty to SAS software this way: "Once you start using it, it becomes sort of insidious.

It's this sort of insidious notion -- passed off as a legitimate argument -- that creates the growing level of distrust of Muslims in our society.

The Republican Hate Machine invoked precisely this sort of insidious fear-mongering with the Willie Horton ad in 1988, and again in 2000, racial innuendo was used to torpedo Senator McCain's campaign in South Carolina.

It is these sorts of insidious practices that the school admissions code was set up to counter.

Movies have taught us to love the superficially awkward, the lovable loser, and those movies use all sorts of insidious tricks to appeal to the loser in all of us.

Ads have all sorts of other insidious effects, like turning content providers into clickbait factories.

Not to discount Duke's play, which was the sort of unrelenting and insidious performance for which Coach Mike Krzyzewski is known – those young men in the dark blue jerseys never give up, a fact that makes them incredibly dangerous for almost any team in the N.C.A.A.

An insidious sort of hysteria has taken hold and it is open season on Romanians.