machiavellian in English
At best, bottle blondes are equated with an artifice - think Pamela Anderson, Melinda Messenger - and at worst, deceitfulness and Machiavellian scheming.
It must be realized, however, that the notion of Machiavellian intelligence was at that time still vague and ill-formed.
As Sartre admitted in his eulogy, ‘He reaffirmed the existence of moral fact within the heart of our era… against the Machiavellians , against the golden calf of realism.’
Use "machiavellian" in a sentence
1. A Machiavellian plot was suspected.
2. Machiavellian and manipulative, the Lords are often maligned.
3. India once possessed an energised, Machiavellian political culture.
4. That is financial engineering at its most Machiavellian.
5. He has very long-term views, Machiavellian almost.
6. They can resort to Byzantine, even Machiavellian manipulations.
7. 26 They can resort to Byzantine, even Machiavellian manipulations.
8. In this layer, Obama implied American policies that are cautious and Machiavellian.
9. This one is called The Suit: a Machiavellian Guide to Men's Fashion.
10. The board's Machiavellian manoeuvres had given him little choice but to quit.
11. Think of the colossal nerve of the man - the Machiavellian subtlety of his brain.
12. The role produces masters of realpolitik, Machiavellian in the original sense of the word.
13. The model of Machiavellian virtu is the Renaissance statesman, Cesare Borgia in general, Cesare Borgia.
14. The Councillor is a Machiavellian inspired fantasy set in the fictional kingdom of Elira
15. Cheating: See: artifice , bunko , deceit , deceptive , dishonest , dishonesty , embezzlement , fraud , fraudulent , insidious , knavery , machiavellian , perfidious
16. Christie and Geis also sought to find out why people differ on the Machiavellian scale.
17. This seems to be and is, clearly, a kind of classic statement of sheer Machiavellian power politics.
18. The term Realpolitik is sometimes used pejoratively to imply politics that are perceived as coercive, amoral, or Machiavellian.
19. At any rate, that is a question the truly Machiavellian leader would decline to answer and publicly condemn.
20. "All politics grows out of the barrel of a gun," as a famous twentieth-century Machiavellian once put it.
21. We need to ask whether the interest in Machiavellian behaviour is detracting from the positive side of political activity.
22. At least men like that had been up-front about what they wanted, they hadn't schemed and plotted with machiavellian determination.
23. The question is whether he was well served or whether he allowed others, notably Karl Rove, his Machiavellian campaign adviser, undue influence.
24. Arcaded (AUS) Street Boss (USA) Street Cry (IRE) Machiavellian (USA) 1987: 1998: Helen Street (GB) 1982: 2004: Blushing Ogygian (USA) Ogygian (USA) 1983: 1994
25. Asked if Hollywood was as Machiavellian as the world of politics, Clooney said: "The business can be that way, there's a certain cut-throat element.
26. They found a strong link between utilitarian answers to moral dilemmas (push the fat guy off the bridge) and personalities that were psychopathic, Machiavellian or tended to view life as meaningless.
27. Beaton is the author of the fantasy novel The Councillor, to be published by DAW Books on March 2, 2021.She has previously published a poetry collection, Unbroken Circle (Melbourne Poets Union), and has been shortlisted for the ACU Prize for Poetry and the Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize.She studied literature and writing at university, and her PhD thesis included analysis of Machiavellian