Enron is such a mind-numbing black hole, even for financial analysts, that if you tried to explain all the perfidious permutations, you'd never come out the other end.
A columnist for National Review has applied the words at various times to the French Revolution, Title IX, secular humanism and the metric system -- not exactly things that a Victorian heroine would be tempted to address with an epithet like "false betrayer!" But then, "perfidy" and "perfidious" aren't words that you encounter in divorce court.
His voice is mournful, his richly melodic songs filled with slain kin, murderous gamekeepers and perfidious women ("you could not maintain your chastity," sniffs Come My Darling Polly, "even with the wearing of a girdle").
True, the actual words "perfidy" and "perfidious" aren't used that much anymore.
Meanwhile the government is also braced for the news that Ford is going to end car production at Dagenham.In this section Post-Fordism Those perfidious Anglo spies Are you feeling lucky, punk?
Now ministers are said to be thinking hard about state payments for parents who take time off to be with their children.In this section Leave it to me Post-Fordism Those perfidious Anglo spies Are you feeling lucky, punk?
By contrast, the Liberal Democrats, who polled a paltry 14% in 1997, took 34% in last year's council elections.In this section Post-Fordism Those perfidious Anglo spies Are you feeling lucky, punk?
The husbands, perfidious, inconsistent, cruel or despotic, there you have, summed up, all the individuals on earth".
I got slightly mixed up between the hundred years war and the French Resistance during the second world war, confusing the perfidious English with Nazi Germans along the way, but how could you blame me when even Winston Churchill had nicknamed Charles de Gaulle "Jeanne d'Arc"?
Perfidious Albion, indeed.
