Sentence examples for treacherous of from inspiring English sources

Advisers, ministers and government officials alike must confide their thoughts to that most treacherous of media: the letter.

Both as an interpreter of lyrics, and as a virtuoso of that most treacherous of jazz temptations, the instrument-mimicking style of scat, O'Day was a supreme improviser.

ARENBERG, France — After Tuesday's Stage 3 of the Tour de France, a stage expected to be the most treacherous of this race, Lance Armstrong boarded his team bus, looking stunned.

Michael Scott, in his book "The Record of Singing," wrote of the role that it "is considered the most treacherous of all scores written for this type of voice".

Iran's seizure of several local British Embassy staff members in Tehran escalated a spat with Britain, which has been denounced as "the most treacherous" of Iran's adversaries by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Ever since June 15 in Tehran I've been asking the most alluring and treacherous of historical questions: "What if?" What if the vast protesting crowd of perhaps three million people had turned from Azadi (Freedom) Square toward the presidential complex?

It remains unclear what the administration has in mind, but the president has spoken of the treacherous allure of the drone.

That sense of the treacherous familiarity of blood ties is played to the hilt but never painfully embodied here.

THE PIRATES LAFFITE: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf, by William C. Davis.

"Racism," says Niebuhr, "is a "treacherous denial of the existence of God".

One hopes it will awaken to the treacherous consequences of a literal reading of the asylum statute.