trickeries

Director Toby Frow has opted for the longer, more knockabout B and fills it with stage trickeries of giant puppets, zombie-like devils (à la Michael Jackson's "Thriller"), a pantomime-boy-style Lucifer (Gwendoline Christie dropping in from the flies) and a Monty Pythonesque papal court (cackling cardinals and self-pleasuring pontiff).

Doctor Faustus 2010

“And with hexameters and trimeters too, I hope,” interrupted Raleigh: “and all the trickeries of self-pleasing sorrow.”

Westward Ho! 2007

That is, the trickeries of chavismo might ensure the victory but the margin can only be blamed on the opposition inept leadership.

Black-mail time in Venezuela 2006

That is, the trickeries of chavismo might ensure the victory but the margin can only be blamed on the opposition inept leadership.

07/16/2006 - 07/23/2006 2006

The CNE not only cannot afford to be discovered for the trickeries it has been doing all along, but it will reinforce them so as to discourage opposition voters to go to the polls.

Chavez sets his electoral strategy 2006

The CNE not only cannot afford to be discovered for the trickeries it has been doing all along, but it will reinforce them so as to discourage opposition voters to go to the polls.

06/11/2006 - 06/18/2006 2006

Not once, for all the trickeries of Law, did I further suspect this young woman.

The Dreamthief's Daughter Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2001

They sent the Prince staggering back with losses as appalling as those I had anticipated before we saw any of the Captain's trickeries.

She Is The Darkness Cook, Glen 1997

I have lost any chance of that, all because of you and your foul trickeries.

TO STORM HEAVEN ESTHER FRIESNER 1990

DRAQONLANCE PRCluoes Raistlin believed none of them and turned their venomous trickeries upon themselves, showing the crowds of awestruck, fear-ridden people that these clerics were as false as their ideals.

Brothers Majere Stein, Kevin, 1954- 1989