Furthermore, it shows that the scheming and duplicitous Jared Kushner is perhaps even more scheming and duplicitous than we initially thought.
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It's about him being duplicitous … about not including her.
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From the start, Mr. Putin has played a duplicitous hand.
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After finding out about Cersei's duplicitous plan, Jaime leaves her.
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Trump has proven himself ill adept at such duplicitous behavior.
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Their intentions might be good, but their actions are duplicitous.
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His Mars in duplicitous Gemini lights up the kink factor.
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It's not that he's less duplicitous than the other candidates.
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The Russians may be duplicitous, but they are not stupid.
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Ms. Kardashian depicted Ms. Swift as duplicitous, and it stuck.
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It reinforces the notion that we're duplicitous, that we're a threat.
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Tech companies do collect data in unexpected, and sometimes duplicitous, ways.
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It's not duplicitous, it really is just who I am fundamentally.
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Like its duplicitous characters, the video game leads a double life.
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Graham is the most duplicitous Republican senator running for reelection in
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But Kate must carry most of it on her duplicitous shoulders.
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He's difficult and duplicitous, a man only his creator could love.
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PELTZ: LET ME TELL YOU HOW DUPLICITOUS THIS SLIDE IS. OKAY.
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"Duplicitous or unnecessary," said U.S. Senator Roy Blunt, explaining the rationale.
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Yet there's something duplicitous about it, something else going on underneath.
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Unlike wearing designer boots that scream their price tag, Botox felt duplicitous.
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"We know that Huawei itself has been duplicitous and deceitful," Strayer said.
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Mr. Putin has been a duplicitous partner, failing to fulfill previous commitments.
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Why back a group as disorganized and duplicitous as today's Republican party?
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" Questlove added, "Most humans have a duplicitous side — is 'triplicitous' a term?
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You know, the mad king surrounded by all these duplicitous, scheming relatives.
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McKesson is right to fight back against these duplicitous and dangerous practices.
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It's that subtle design flourish, Clapton says, that hints at Cersei's duplicitous nature.
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These duplicitous appeals to the basest forms of nationalism have a long tradition.
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Detestable, and harkens back to Trump's duplicitous acceptances of denials from other dictators.
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While both brothers are duplicitous, Chuck's actions feel like more of a betrayal.
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Sayer); his duplicitous brother (Dave Hearn) and Charles's tweedy best friend (Mr. Lewis).
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It has duplicitous bloggers, avaricious music executives and sadistic fans in white masks.
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It seems she has her own duplicitous investor, a man known only as Liam.
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Or is this the tale of a serial killer and his dark, duplicitous art?
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The history of duplicitous alliances and betrayals (briefly outlined above) highlights the dangers involved.
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How will Pipsy, a purebred spaniel lured here by her duplicitous feline girlfriend, survive?
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I wanted the project to be duplicitous in its online presentation, hence the name SHAMS.
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He accuses Turkey's duplicitous Western allies of trying to "pick up the slack of crusaders".
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One witness at his confirmation accused him of "infidelity," and another characterized Brandeis as "duplicitous".
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"We know that Huawei itself has been duplicitous and deceitful," Strayer told reporters in Barcelona.
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It took a few hours, but I'm happy to say that I'm duplicitous no more.
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Jingles, Bendayan agrees, can make a comeback by returning advertising to a less duplicitous time.
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Last season, Cersei — duplicitous she-snake that she is – promised her forces to Jon and Daenerys.
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While he may be Negan's bootleg version of Daryl, Dwight has never been the duplicitous type.
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They evoke Havel's focus on the duplicitous lives people adopted within the Communist socio-political sphere.
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The self-published author, a duplicitous Gemini and secret fan of our horoscopes, invited us there.
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She's been a vile, duplicitous monster for seven straight seasons and, hey... she's still got it!
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Keep in mind, the louder Tehran screams, the more likely it is the regime is duplicitous.
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It might help deter more wrongdoing as more duplicitous foundations learn that they could get caught.
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They're duplicitous; they'll snuggle with you, but they will also eat your corpse when you die.
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So why do things the hard way when it's easier to get rich by being duplicitous?
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When tasked with translating someone whose words they find reprehensible, translators can feel inauthentic, disingenuous and duplicitous.
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But be wary: several hide a duplicitous nature behind cod-medieval speak, weird riddles, or overt cheerfulness.
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The White House is not a whistleblower and nothing that I was shown justifies such duplicitous conduct.
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Initially, prosecutors claimed Butina's romance was "duplicitous," but they soon stopped weighing in on Butina's relationship status.
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Mr. Moore has been pilloried in press accounts of the episode as a duplicitous spy for hire.
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Equally unnerving (or duplicitous), though, are his evasions, prevarications, lack of legal knowledge and just plain stonewalling.
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But, when Fausto returns, he resumes to his old ways, as an obnoxious playboy, duplicitous and bullying.
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The impact of wartime propaganda that depicted the Japanese as cruel, duplicitous and subhuman left its traces.
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It's the sort of duplicitous, privacy-disregarding behavior that earned the company a $5 billion FTC fine.
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Optimistically described by the Dark Souls Wiki as being an "opportunistic trickster," he's really just a duplicitous twat.
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Shakespeare really gets going when he's writing for himself, chronicling his misery in a duplicitous bisexual love triangle.
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Instead, it's about getting back at what Khosla believes is a duplicitous executive by exposing his alleged misdeeds.
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This recent controversy should be the last time we as a nation have to endure this duplicitous game.
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And yet Kushner, who is truly his duplicitous father's son, did what New York real estate developers do.
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"Emails requesting donations from duplicitous charitable organizations are also common after tragic events," CISA wrote in the alert.
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Schwartz said Express Scripts is being "duplicitous" in its responses and his pharmacy operation has never mailed anything.
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The group is seeking monetary damages from the Saudi Arabian government, claiming it was "duplicitous" in the attacks.
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Its response to the crisis of soaring drug prices has been meager at best — and duplicitous at worst.
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This should not be an option to be accepted or rejected at will by a potentially duplicitous individual.
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The Ethicist was right on with his response; but I would have come down harder on the duplicitous daughters.
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We have failed to strike a lasting deal with the North Koreans because they are duplicitous and wicked, certainly.
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"She's not just the worst prime minister I have seen in my lifetime, she's the most duplicitous," he said.
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Former President Hamid Karzai frequently denounced American officials as being duplicitous on several fronts, including communication with the Taliban.
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It should also help both parties decide to stop being such duplicitous cowards when it comes to budget issues.
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The nine allegedly accessed the computer systems of U.S. universities through duplicitous electronic contacts, a scheme known as phishing.
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But the PTAB's wholesale and duplicitous assault on property rights in innovation is a bridge too far for them.
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" Roxanne McKee (Doreah) went from duplicitous Khaleesi handmaiden to ruler of Vega Claire Riesen in the Syfy series "Dominion.
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He is annoyingly wholesome and chauvinistically overprotective of the duplicitous Josie, and I like that he gets bamboozled by her.
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As a group, they're usually praised for their adaptability, especially in social settings, but they're also often denounced as duplicitous.
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For this, we need the same human instrument—faulty, romantic, and duplicitous—that brought Enron to that self-defeating point.
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A historic lack of regulation likely contributed to the current bitcoin bubble by facilitating market manipulation and duplicitous trading practices.
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But he's different than a lot of villains, who've done duplicitous things or hurt people in ways that aren't physical.
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From immigration to criminal justice, there were so many duplicitous narratives about Latinos that it was difficult to keep track.
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The devil is duplicitous, he holds forth the torch of love while hiding the skull of death behind his back.
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And while we're on reality, the administration's handling of tax reform in the budget falls somewhere between nonexistent and duplicitous.
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All of these initiatives were included in President Obama's agenda, and all were blocked by a duplicitous, obstructionist Republican Congress.
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By revealing duplicitous and corrupt behaviour among Mr Trump's team, and by bringing prosecutions, Mr Mueller has helped cleanse political campaigning.
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Compare that to the ease with which bogus Facebook or Twitter accounts were set up or a duplicitous advertisement was bought.
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Lane, also new to the fold, plays Kinnear's sister on the series, together forming a duplicitous duo with a clear agenda.
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" On small screens, shows like Homeland and 24 are full of Muslim character that are either "duplicitous spies or bloodthirsty terrorists.
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Many scholars today believe that the Sirens were considered to be manifestations of the human soul after death, and duplicitous tricksters.
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He also points fingers at duplicitous antagonists in Albany, where his plans for the stadium and congestion-pricing were both scuttled.
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McCain, an opponent of Obamacare, refused to play this duplicitous game and cast his famous thumbs down vote to kill it.
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That justice-seeking fantasy I've conjured persists and grows as I watch the masses tire of self-absolving, duplicitous corporate-speak.
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He was duplicitous, he was a liar, but he wasn't evil; he was screwed up from a childhood defined by abandonment.
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Yet another duplicitous captain betrays Burnham, who gets yet another chance to choose a path other than the most violent, destructive one.
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Arts | New Jersey It is tempting to describe the duplicitous doings of "Villainous Company" as a dramatic game of cat and mouse.
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She paints New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as a duplicitous operator, who helps unions mainly to advance his own career.
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"Scarlett brings such a different energy than she does to other things," Favreau says of Johansson's portrayal of the duplicitous python Kaa.
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It is true that duplicitous subjects may attempt to employ a ruse to get the officer to relax or drop his guard.
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Her lawyers also took aim at statements by prosecutors who described her relationship with Mr. Erickson as "duplicitous" and borne of convenience.
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And it is likely to compound Trump's sense of paranoia that he is surrounded by advisers who may be duplicitous and untrustworthy.
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The short documentary catches Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix admitting to manipulating elections around the world through potentially illegal, and inarguably duplicitous, means.
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In response to criticism for him supporting the accused, Žižek exerts himself to depict Ronell as merely eccentric and Reitman as maniacally duplicitous.
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" Per a former WH ally of Bannon's: "I've gone from being sympathetic to Steve to believing he's a genuinely bad guy, totally duplicitous.
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And so, back when he really was untreated, I would feel duplicitous, that all the things he suspected me of might be true.
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A top-ranking Hispanic Democratic lawmaker tells The Hill that GOP presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are "duplicitous" on immigration reform.
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Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, who intervened militarily last September to save Mr. Assad from rebel advances, may be up to duplicitous tricks again.
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Nicholas Kristof WITH presidential debates approaching, we in journalism are locked in a fierce dispute: How should we report on a duplicitous demagogue?
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This year has brought several examples of duplicitous acts carried out by individuals either unaffiliated with or at the fringes of the campaigns.
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The channel treats facts as an inconvenience and will tell any story that shows the West to be corrupt, in retreat or duplicitous.
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It would be physically impossible to report on all the duplicitous behaviour that happens at The Ralph every Sunday without careening into madness.
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Reflective of a more complex message, each mural conveys a duplicitous message, one side simple and pure, while underneath, the morality seeps through.
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Big oil companies set to meet with Pope Francis later this week are being "duplicitous" in their support for addressing climate change, Sen.
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The spitting stories provided reassuring confirmation that had it not been for those duplicitous fifth-columnists, the Vietnamese would have never beaten us.
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McMaster avoids opinion and relies on government documents, presidential archives and oral histories to expose the duplicitous and dishonorable origins of the war.
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His basketball legacy has left many in Seattle outraged to this day, believing Mr. Schultz to be either duplicitous or duped by others.
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She delivers an update on "I Dated a Fuckboy"—an earlier tale of a duplicitous suitor, which unfortunately was shared with the fuckboy himself.
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She bore twins, Esau and Jacob, favoring the latter (and younger twin) who turned out to be just as sneaky and duplicitous as she.
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While incarcerated and hoping for a pardon, Grace's only weapon is her ability to tell her own story, in mesmerizing, perplexing, and duplicitous ways.
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Imran Khan, elected to power recently, and yet to shake off his image as playboy of the Western world, plays a similarly duplicitous game.
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The logistics are too complicated, and the enterprise would put the duplicitous Trump administration in the driver's seat, which would calm no one's nerves.
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I think we did find a fascinating, difficult, duplicitous, and yet very human guy who is all his own and not a carbon copy.
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Albania Dispatch Depending on whom you ask, the People's Jihadists are Iran's government-in-waiting or a duplicitous terrorist cult that forbids sexual thoughts.
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Others found it duplicitous, given the rampant culture of sexual harassment that had been permitted to fester for so long in the state capital.
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And instead of bemoaning the GOP's dirty tricks, liberals should encourage Republicans to make even more duplicitous primary interventions on behalf of "unelectable" candidates.
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Skeptics view Kim's overtures as a duplicitous attempt to buy time, while others argue any real peace deal requires talking to the North Koreans.
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But the season finale reveals that for at least some of that season they were actually hatching a plan to take out the duplicitous Littlefinger.
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Like Chamberlain before him, Obama fell for the same duplicitous and deceitful behavior by ruthless despots that demands we not allow history to repeat itself.
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It demands that its duplicitous characters — and especially the aristocratic manipulators in chief at its center — be as exquisitely arch and artificial as their environment.
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Russell would indeed be playing J-Son, the duplicitous intergalactic monarch and father of half-Earthling Peter Quill, now leader of the newly minted Guardians.
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Success depends on the cooperation of Russia, a duplicitous player in Syria's tragic civil war and the main defender of Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad.
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The young king will be forced to don the virtually indestructible vibranium Black Panther suit and face a duplicitous world on behalf of his people.
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To this end, then, let the man be volatile, depraved and abusive, duplicitous if not hateful, creepy if not a rapist, feckless if not heartless.
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The very good cast also includes a fantastic Tatiana Maslany as a nightmare personified and Bradley Whitford, who's become a go-to duplicitous white guy.
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The conspiracy theory of the Jew as the hypnotic conspirator, the duplicitous manipulator, the sinister puppeteer is one with ancient roots and a bloody history.
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Depending on whom you ask, the group, the Mujahedeen Khalq, or People's Jihadists, are either Iran's replacement government-in-waiting or a duplicitous terrorist cult.
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"Pakistan is one of the most duplicitous governments I've had any involvement with," Senator Bob Corker, Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters.
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Duplicitous collectors have created a thriving ecosystem of stockpiling, hiding, and decoying that makes it well-nigh impossible to find a scooter in need of charging.
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Worse than a pretense of knowledge, the Democrat's platform demands a duplicitous straightjacket, consigning people to partisan dependence instead of reliably supporting their opportunity to flourish.
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Speier said Jeffries never reached out to her after the contentious race, and she lamented the "duplicitous" members who vowed support to Lee they didn't give.
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McCabe, like his equally duplicitous mentor and fellow book peddler Comey, apparently hopes to portray himself as a solitary moral bulwark against a corrupt, compromised president.
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I've seen it half a dozen times, and I still struggle to keep up with Kelly's apocryphal labyrinth of government conspiracies, duplicitous villains, and madcap schemes.
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Others questioned what his tolerance level would be for the game within the game, duplicitous to the level of dirty, according to recent allegations and reports.
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The Saudis are not in a position to reject Israeli demands, given global awareness of the Saudis' duplicitous behavior and current conditions in the Middle East.
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Cambridge Analytica obtained user data through duplicitous means, but similar data sets are widely and legally available; micro-targeting is commonplace on nearly all political campaigns.
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Or that James had put them in the mouth of the duplicitous Gilbert Osmond (to whom the trusting Isabel Archer is soon bound in unhappy marriage)?
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Users worked one another up into fits, concluding that these dangerous refugees, and the duplicitous politicians who shielded them, would all have to be thrown out.
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Any effort by Trump to take that to court is sure to draw criticism that he is being duplicitous, or at a minimum contradicting Justice Department lawyers.
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This doesn't mean you should be duplicitous or deceitful, but don't go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.
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Shiri Appleby brings Rachel's full duplicitous strength to bear as Rachel wavers over whether to expose "Everlasting," but Coleman clinches it when he triumphantly replays Quinn's confession.
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And Trump himself in recent days has worked to expose Cruz's own vulnerabilities on the issue, portraying Cruz as duplicitous on what to do with undocumented immigrants.
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Cost estimates from impartial scorekeepers, like those on the Joint Committee on Taxation and at the Congressional Budget Office, are tossed aside for wishful and duplicitous analyses.
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She's the royal you love to hate: duplicitous and nakedly ambitious from the get-go, but a savvy tactician and as ferociously brave as she is vicious.
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At best, she is someone who made a series of foolish choices, and at worst she is evidence that women as a whole are duplicitous and untrustworthy.
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Now we do have good reason to believe the source of this video is an incredibly duplicitous Subterfuge player, but that said this footage appears to be legitimate.
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As internal documents seeped out in the 1990s, a picture emerged of an industry that was stunningly duplicitous, callous and manipulative in its efforts to sell Americans cigarettes.
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It's not hard to understand why they resorted to such a duplicitous tactic: HB2 is costing North Carolina a lot of money: $395 million, according to Wired's estimate.
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" At Butina's arraignment, prosecutor Erik Kenerson argued that Butina posed a flight risk, because her relationship with Erickson was "duplicitous" and "simply a necessary aspect of her activities.
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My group prefers Mafia, and I will say you haven't really played it until you've played it with a dozen teenagers, gathered because they are duplicitous fuck-ups.
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Richards was approached last year by the showrunner Martin Gero to play, she said, an "aggressive, duplicitous C.I.A. agent," in a two-episode arc that aired in January.
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A famous mystery novelist, Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is extraordinarily wealthy, and he has accrued the duplicitous family that often comes with a vast estate in stories like these.
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And Mr. Rubio's opponents, for whom Mr. Schumer, a Democrat from New York, has become the ultimate villain, continue to depict the Florida Republican as a duplicitous establishment insider.
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The company also accuses the NTSB of being duplicitous, arguing that the agency has released statements about the crash at the same time that it told Tesla not to.
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This is deliberate obfuscation, eliding a polarizing nationalism that Trumps uses to divide the world into good Americans (those who support him) and "bad" people (criminal immigrants, duplicitous foreigners).
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Very late in the game, and in the face of all those smoking guns, Georgia tried to defend the apparently racist strikes with a brazenly duplicitous mind-game defence.
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The petition, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, suggests President Rodrigo Duterte is following through on his threats to destroy a movement he now regards as duplicitous.
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History is just as duplicitous a guide, filled with misleading parallels that lead us to assume we know more about how the future will play out than we do.
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While it is understandable that the Turks are rattled by the coup attempt, in which Mr. Erdogan said 237 people died, they are playing a duplicitous and cynical game.
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"...Amber was now going to leave him, threatening to lie about him publicly in any and every possible duplicitous way if he didn't agree to her terms," Stanhope writes.
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In "The Club," in Season 1, Al has just triumphed over a duplicitous nightclub owner and he and Earn are enjoying a well-deserved win in the parking lot.
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Now several emails between Hirshberg and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta released by WikiLeaks expose Hirshberg's duplicitous narratives and aggressive approach to push the Clinton campaign into the fray.
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And the character created as Hercules's love interest, the duplicitous but finally good-as-gold Meg, was conceived as a fetchingly cynical 1940s siren: Barbara Stanwyck in a tunic.
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Also on hand is Christopher Marlowe (Jamie Campbell Bower), a duplicitous weasel whose treatment for writer's block is to be circled and groped by a group of naked men.
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As tone-deaf, duplicitous, and just plain wrong as the tech world often is, there's still a good chance that it started to read the room over the last year.
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There are even a couple of new characters to better even out this balance, including a queen with potentially duplicitous motives (Tiffany Haddish) and her right-hand warrior (Stephanie Beatriz).
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But after a couple of days, the duplicitous Fitzgerald all but buries Glass alive and abandons him as winter begins to close in, eventually lying to Henry that Glass died.
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The Iranians we exquisitely duplicitous in steering everybody way from anything that was interesting to look at under their agreement that was signed then happily taken apart by President Trump.
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Despite his half-sister's warning about Ramsey's duplicitous and evil tactics, Jon planned a simple siege, and walked right into a snare set by the house of the Flayed Man.
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"Saudi Arabia was duplicitous," the suit said, noting its government did not notify the U.S. that the trio had passports marked with a secret indicator highlighting their al Qaeda ties.
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It remains a duplicitous and dangerous partner for the United States and Afghanistan, despite $33 billion in American aid and repeated attempts to reset relations on a more constructive course.
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Syria flaunted an agreement it had entered that Moscow and Washington brokered to eliminate all chemical weapons in Syria in 28503 and intensified outrage at the duplicitous conduct of Damascus.
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And yet, what comes across as extraordinarily duplicitous diplomacy and the erosion of trust in American foreign policy is what will ultimately be the most damaging result of the withdrawal.
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"Even if Xi Jinping and China are not viewed as duplicitous on North Korea, the Trump administration may come to see the North Korea problem as not readily fixable," Sutter said.
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Her cake-in-the-throat alto, which many allege is an affectation, has emerged over the past few years as one of people's favorite characters in the duplicitous saga of Theranos.
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For too long Qatar—as well as Turkey — has played duplicitous and often pernicious roles in the Middle East that increasingly appear out of step with the U.S. and its allies.
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Rebound: Spectrum was easily over-subscribed on this fund, reflecting a major reputational rebound after the firm was among those defrauded in 2009 by a duplicitous portfolio company called Canopy Financial.
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"This was a truly duplicitous question," said Dr. Philip Colaizzo, a pediatrician in Jupiter, Florida, who said that many of his patients with special health care needs were taken off CMS.
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Carroll, who wrote the true crime book Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder, is a devoted fan of true crime and an expert on all things duplicitous.
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But if the first summit in Singapore is any indication, Kim may still be interested more in deceptive and duplicitous diplomacy than in good-faith negotiations that could lead to denuclearization.
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Rather, the Shed is an attempt to artwash the gaudy and guilty privilege on display at Hudson Yards; it is a hologram of progress powered by empty rhetoric and duplicitous dollars.
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He quite correctly criticized Pakistan for the duplicitous role it has been playing, supporting some American efforts while also working its own relationships with the Taliban and the notorious Haqqani network.
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Cherry's genitalia is mutilated in one scene, though not shown, and Ava is presented as a duplicitous and deviant figure who is accused of having an incestuous relationship with her son.
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Investigators demonstrated with new details that the self-righteous Comey was insubordinate and duplicitous, and even used private e-mail for government business while he investigated Clinton over her private, unsecured server.
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If it's bad, we'll always have Jonathan, the duplicitous weasel Strong played on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Doyle, the nerdy motormouth who was Paris' boyfriend (and later husband) on Gilmore Girls.
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"E-mails requesting donations from duplicitous charitable organisations commonly appear after major natural disasters," warned the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), an arm of the Department of Homeland Security.
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Dimitri has duplicitous origins, but his moral compass wins out in the end when he falls for Anastasia and can no longer stomach the guilt of lying to her and everyone else.
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Tom Hiddleston has been a household name for Marvel fans ever since his scene-stealing performance as duplicitous God of Mischief Loki in the two Thor movies and 2010's The Avengers.
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That Wolff did so by being duplicitous—he got into the White House's good graces by publishing columns attacking the press for its treatment of Trump—only made the book more newsworthy.
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It's a fair bet that most Americans didn't sign onto a duplicitous "larger restructuring of the American narrative" by junior fiction writers when they sent Obama to the White House in 2008.
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Aloft in the PAV with a somnolent Huggit, I contacted my bosses at the Security Intelligence Service and let them know their duplicitous Sweepstakes, derailed by Prosnitz's larcenous derailment, could be rebooted.
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Sadly, based on your duplicitous handling of the net neutrality issue, and the way you are willfully ignoring the public you claim to serve, I feel you may need that term defined.
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He never made good on any of these promises, of course, but as duplicitous as he was, it showed that he understood even then the growing appeal of socialist policies and ideas.
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On North Korea, where he is exceptionally engaged with the country's notoriously duplicitous dictator, Kim Jong Un, who is talking up the hermit kingdom's denuclearization, despite the absence of real-world actions.
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"I think at this point the leadership, with their duplicitous words that do not align with their actions, has made a mockery of the movement that millions of women have built," Alterman said.
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Most people have probably encountered an Alex Trimboli (Calum Worthy), the duplicitous teen boy from the first season with the mouth full of braces and the constant smug, weaselly expression on his face.
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These questions are at times exceedingly personal and duplicitous, like asking what your biggest fear is or inquiring if you would resort to violence to gain information that could save other people's lives.
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Only one story betrayed any sort of connection to current political concerns: a mysterious, duplicitous stranger arrives at Asgard and offers to build a giant wall before the first day of summer arrives.
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The school's proximity to a movie studio allows Mr. Yang to comment both on his film and his characters as historical actors, not least when the duplicitous Ming is given a screen test.
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But it's duplicitous to expect to expand the game through the biggest multisport spectacle on the planet even as one of the game's most affluent and influential clubs refuses to expand its membership.
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The US and UK are both topped off by the crying laughing face, an accurate summary of our duplicitous political situations, while most other countries favor expressions of love, like hearts and kisses.
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His cheerful-sounding "Die Forelle" ("The Trout") — the song that gives the quintet the musical backbone of its fourth movement, and its name — champions the underdog, or underfish, betrayed by the duplicitous angler.
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"The US State Department — with a hundred-year history of anti-Semitism — promotes the payoff of corrupt Palestinians in exchange for their completely duplicitous agreement to support a two-state solution," Friedman writes.
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The following year, a report commissioned by the former governor himself put her at the center of the trouble, portraying Ms. Kelly as a duplicitous and overly emotional weeper addicted to male approval.
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Having acquired Publons, Clarivate hopes that linking researchers' citation records with their records as reviewers will make it easier for journal editors to select reliable reviewers and harder for duplicitous authors to deceive them.
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Some of the biggest expenses for any infrastructure project are compliance with numerous environmental laws at multiple levels of enforcement creating an immense and duplicitous amount of paperwork and studies raising project costs considerably.
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We'll have to wait and see if she stirs up this much drama in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, but if you ask us, this all-powerful, duplicitous enchantress deserves her own movie.
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The attack was a sign of American exasperation with Pakistan's duplicitous game of working with Washington to combat terrorism while sheltering the Taliban and its even more hard-line partners in the Haqqani network.
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In the year since Rouhani's charm offensive led to his securing relief from economic sanctions, he has shown himself to be just as duplicitous and deceptive as former Presidents Mohammad Khatami and Akbar Rafsanjani.
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The plot devices of "Belgravia" will be familiar to anyone who has a passing acquaintance with Victorian fiction: There are missing papers, duplicitous ladies' maids, gambling debts, dubious marriage lines and long-lost heirs.
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That "necessary yet duplicitous 'admission' that his writing was fictitious" left Mr. Lucas "discredited among editors and publishers," Professor Houlbrook wrote, though the episode was far from the closing chapter in his bewildering career.
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But really, that's more potentially dangerous because if he learns how to behave in a more measured, charming way on the surface, he can put a disarming face on harsh policies or duplicitous practices.
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Democrats and Republicans set forth their conflicting narratives about the man who once served Mr. Trump, either as a duplicitous disgruntled former employee or a fallen sinner trying to redeem himself by coming clean.
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However, it is not in America's interest to have that pluralism translate into a duplicitous foreign policy, where it could purport to hold a certain position one day, and an entirely different position the next.
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The Republican Congress may have been fooled by the chamber's duplicitous arguments that what Americans really need is access to bad financial advice, but I'm disappointed the chamber is now wasting the court's time too.
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As we rapidly move towards a world of heightened transparency, not only in politics, but in our day-to-day lives, the capacity for duplicitous marketing will inevitably diminish amongst millennials and generations to come.
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As a black feminist and a civil rights historian, I do not need to be persuaded that many black male ministers during the civil rights era were morally duplicitous, felt sexually entitled and slept around.
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Two episodes later, after the series had come back from its winter break, Dawson's Jane (who Petra calls J.R.) entered the scene as the duplicitous lawyer Petra hires after being accused of murdering her twin sister.
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But season 1 had another, more complicated villain: Jeri Hogarth is a high-powered attorney played by Carrie-Anne Moss, best known as Trinity from the Matrix movies and the duplicitous Natalie from Christopher Nolan's Memento.
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Teachers unions are responding with duplicitous and strong arm tactics, continuing to collect dues from many teachers without their consent, and seeking other means to expand their reach such as the strike effort in Los Angeles.
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More funding for investigators devoted to dissecting foundations the way Fahrenthold and the AG's office have would be a good start, and help deter more wrongdoing as more duplicitous foundations learn that they might get caught.
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After The Walking Dead's midseason finale, I fretted that Morgan's desire to stop the Alexandrians from killing anyone would be done for, now that the Wolf he had tried to save had proved duplicitous in the end.
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The great curse of Republicans in the midterm elections is that on issue after issue, many of them appear to be playing the role of Fredo Corleone, the hapless, duplicitous and incompetent sycophant in the original Godfather.
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As we know, the bumbling Gungan created by George Lucas first appears in The Phantom Menace as comic relief, then has a hand in creating the Empire as an advocate of emergency powers for the duplicitous Palpatine.
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It is this duplicitous behavior that has drawn the ire of the likes of Corker, Gabbard, and others who are now trying to block the F-85033 transfer in response to the Obama administration's notification of sale.
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The terror Sansa experiences at Ramsay's hands only ends once she — having learned a thing or two from Littlefinger about being duplicitous — calls upon the Vale to help her reclaim her rightful place as the figurehead of Winterfell.
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Now, having survived a brush with death in 2017, and armed with new funding and direct control of the company as its CEO (though no longer the majority shareholder), YT could continue this duplicitous push, these people say.
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If you only do and say things to elicit a good reaction in others, that's stupid and duplicitous, and sooner or later, people will realize you're full of shit, or at least acting good for the wrong reasons.
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Brazile's duplicitous behavior is a symbol and symptom of the Democratic Party leadership -- which remains unwilling to admit that its chronic alignment with Wall Street, big banks and harmful trade deals has been key to sagging electoral fortunes.
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The spectators, a duplicitous mob, would see him pause to ponder a dissatisfying line call, hands on hips, and would bay him onward, into the molten depths of the tantrum that they both craved and affected to deplore.
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The book is unsparing: Based on some 220 interviews, most of them anonymous, Ward argues that Ivanka is the president's "greatest weakness" and that she and her husband, Jared Kushner, also a senior adviser, are power-hungry and duplicitous.
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"Hell TF NO." By responding to this tweet, Love not only stood up for herself but also shut down harmful stereotypes about transgender women, like the idea that transgender people are duplicitous and manipulative and "pretending" to be cisgender.
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Future is a tragic Scorpio: While his Sun brings a sexual intensity and a possessiveness that craves sexual depth, his Moon in duplicitous Gemini and his Mars in free-loving Libra make him go in different directions at once.
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Why, they say, would Tehran, whose supreme leader regards Washington as duplicitous in any event, concede or even value any deal done with the president who just abandoned a nuclear deal so painfully negotiated with the last American president?
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" One reason, aside from our longstanding skepticism over synthetic imitations, may be the preponderance of malevolent or duplicitous artificial intelligence voices in science fiction, from HAL 9000 in "2001: A Space Odyssey" to Samantha in the 2013 film "Her.
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He's there in the hopes of committing ritual suicide in the palace court, a request the local lord has doubts about after a recent incident involving a duplicitous ronin who used the same request as part of a money-making con.
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It's one of many paintings that played a narrative role in the Hollywood film noir of the 1940s and '50s, where this artistic double fit with the self-reflexive nature of the cinema style, and the presence of duplicitous femme fatales.
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With both his Sun and Venus in the duplicitous sign of Gemini, Kendrick might tell you he can only do open relationships—but it's more likely that he's just convinced himself that he thrives on variety and gets bored easily.
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Regardless of the final outcome, Trump has proven that the traditional Republican Party has lost influence, so much so that a demonstrably duplicitous public figure, a man seemingly without conscience, can take the lead and hold it at least into March.
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Many millennials who might otherwise lean anti-abortion are troubled by the movement's union with a Republican Party that is in favor of the death penalty, hawkish in its foreign policy and often duplicitous in its attitude about ending abortion.
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WASHINGTON — Weeks before it is to reimpose another round of punishing sanctions on Iran, the Trump administration warned the world's banks on Thursday that Tehran might try to use duplicitous means to soften the sanctions' bite and continue to fund terrorism.
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" Stanhope, who said he was a friend of Depp's, wrote that Depp had told him that Heard was leaving him and "threatening to lie about him publicly in any and every possible duplicitous way if he didn't agree to her terms.
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Ms. Foray was probably most identified as two characters on "Rocky and His Friends" (later "The Bullwinkle Show"): Rocky the flying squirrel, protagonist and friend of Bullwinkle, the moose, and Natasha Fatale, a duplicitous spy and partner of Boris Badenov.
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Readers familiar with that book will experience this one as a detailed origin story fused with a history lesson about the Worldwide Church of God and its charismatic and duplicitous leader, Herbert W. Armstrong, who reschedules the Great Tribulation as necessary.
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Outsized personalities abound: the "dangerously monarchical" George Washington; the profligate, "sexy" Arnold, whose ego exceeded his status; the dissolute British general William Howe; the duplicitous commander and statesman Joseph Reed, whose zealous pursuit of Arnold may have precipitated his treachery.
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In a similar way, I do think there are Clinton haters (okay, okay, yes I admit it) who she repels but there is also a huge number of voters who simply find her phony, staged, duplicitous and quite frankly part of the problem.
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It's clear to new arrival Jack Silva (Krasinski) that the local security guards are worthless, if not totally duplicitous, that the ambassador's bodyguards are too green for the job, and that the "tech" (weapons, vehicles, gear) at their disposal are woefully inadequate.
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"When it comes to party loyalty and sincerity, it is absolutely not allowed to be duplicitous, to agree overtly but oppose in secret, or to be a two-face person, or lead a double life, or engage in political social climbing," it said.
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Combined with decades of anti-intellectual posturing and pernicious legislative attempts to hobble science education in America, outrageous displays like this, whether born out of willful ignorance or duplicitous political maneuvering, have rightly earned the GOP the title of anti-science party.
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After sharing years of tender affection with her childhood friend and beloved, Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw becomes a duplicitous snob and rejects her true love because of his low social status, poor breeding, and unkempt manner; Heathcliff, in turn, becomes incensed and runs away.
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It's a lot more diverse than most period dramas, with a fantastic main cast of east and south Asian actors that wage war, dress in a lot of flowing silks, and backstab the crap out of each other in the Khan's duplicitous court.
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Dueling statements about whether impeachment is or is not already happening will also undermine vulnerable red state Democrats who are wary of impeachment, by making them seem confused at best—and duplicitous at worst—to constituents who want to understand what's going on.
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Last May, a post started popping up in Facebook news feeds warning people about a scam involving a man who pretends he wants to buy the washing machine of unsuspecting homeowners, but once in the house, turns out to have slightly more duplicitous intensions.
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In the days after a baffling news conference last year in which President Trump, standing alongside Vladimir Putin, parroted the duplicitous Russian position that it did not meddle in our elections -- even though his own intelligence community had said the opposite -- Republican lawmakers shrugged.
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The visit begins rather disastrously with an ill-judged newspaper interview (cue a duplicitous journalist sung by a countertenor), mass demonstrations (more crowd scenes) and questions all around (cue voices from the wings—American senators asking, at tempo accelerando, urgent questions about that Russia investigation).
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Dean Winters—who played the duplicitous Irish American string puller and old romantic, Ryan O'Reilly—worked in a bar on New York's Upper East Side with his brother, Scott, who would go on to play Dean's mentally disabled on-screen brother Cyril in the show.
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A rush to reestablish the status quo would not only waste an excellent opportunity to change the behavior of a duplicitous regional actor but it would send a mixed message to America's allies who appear to be doing precisely what the president asked of them.
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And it's because they think there's a cover-up," he told reporters at a recent White House briefing, adding, "There must have been something really, really duplicitous, something really under-handed about how they handled this document, because there must be a cover-up.
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What happened next provides a glimpse into the often fraught and sometimes duplicitous negotiations between would-be informants and federal law enforcement, a dangerous and delicate dance full of pitfalls for people like Mr. Kourani, who seek to trade information for leniency or other favors.
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On the contrary, he's the face, however duplicitous, of a revolution against the Party of Davos, the network of elites whose economic and cultural prescriptions came to be seen by myriad voters across the United States and Europe as camouflage for a self-serving heist.
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In July 2016, people began spamming Swift's accounts with snake emoji because they believed she was duplicitous—partially due to situations with ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris and Katy Perry, but mostly because of a longtime feud with Kanye West (and, by extension, Kim Kardashian West).
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If Undine was intelligent enough to get herself into and graduate from Dartmouth and she successfully ran her own business in New York, as she is depicted at the start of the play, wouldn't she notice that her duplicitous husband was emptying her checking account?
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Jeremy Sengly's bud bird, Hazel Boulevard's disco turkey, and Bad Blueprints' platonic vaporwave vision of the featherless fowl all offer different flavors of the traditional Thankgiving staple—but the only who will actually get to taste it is probably Ethan Barnowsky's duplicitous pilgrim in the last panel.
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Those cyber attacks might originate from nation state sources – the attack on Sony Pictures attributed to North Korea, or the attacks on energy companies attributed to Russia – or they might come from organized criminal groups that have added sophisticated cyber crime to their inventory of duplicitous ventures.
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The release of a huge archive filled with arcana and gossip carries its own symbolic weight, especially during a moment of political volatility: an institution that seems permeable does not seem strong—and an institution with secrets looks duplicitous, no matter how benign the secrets may be.
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Tensions boiled over early after Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, and others suggested that Republicans might take up Judge Garland's nomination in the lame duck session — should Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders win the White House — and outraged Judiciary Committee Democrats called Republicans duplicitous.
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But what many assumed would be a liability turned out to be an asset for an electorate fed up with a governing class widely regarded as duplicitous and dishonest, said Joice Hasselmann, who was elected to Congress this month by tying her candidacy to Mr. Bolsonaro's.
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Recent efforts to pry into our national elections, duplicitous commitments regarding global peace, the annexation of Crimea, and the brazen financing of some of the most dangerous regimes around the world mark actions that warrant hard-hitting measures, a strong warning to Putin to back off.
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Film scholars have often discussed the double-crossing femme fatale as a sexist figure, made for consumption by the male gaze, but never to be trusted—a threat to all that is right, fair, and masculine in the world, and a cliché of the duplicitous female.
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But if the Post's reporting (based on multiple accounts) is correct, the White House knew that Flynn was being duplicitous for weeks—yet administration spokesperson and cable news punching bag Kellyanne Conway was going on MSNBC to say Trump had "full confidence" in Flynn hours before he resigned.
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What it is: When a man on a gigantic spaceship that takes generations to travel between stars wakes up from cryogenesis due to a malfunction, he decides to wake up one of the women passengers as well, in the most duplicitous Adam and Eve story you'll ever see.
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A study of A.I. representations in film and television by Christopher Noessel underscores the problem: We have lots of stories about the power and the duplicitous nature of A.I., but almost none exploring what he calls the "Untold A.I." themes: accountability, effective policy and broad literacy around these technologies.
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"You speak with Sisi and he talks about security cooperation with Israel, and you speak with Israelis and they talk about security cooperation with Egypt, but then this duplicitous game continues," said Representative Eliot L. Engel of New York, the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee.
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Historically, one of the biggest and most fear-mongering tropes about the internet is that it allows people to hide themselves from you, with the built-in assumption that if someone is hiding or pretending to be someone they're not, their motives must be purely duplicitous or malevolent.
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As a Russia analyst for many years, it also has appalled me that hosts who made their reputations as super-patriots and who, justifiably, savaged President Obama for his duplicitous folly with Putin, now advance Putin's agenda by making light of Russian penetration of our elections and the Trump campaign.
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This Breaking Bad prequel/spinoff, centered on Bob Odenkirk's morally duplicitous lawyer, reached new heights in its second season, as Jimmy McGill — the man who will become Saul Goodman — attempted to go straight and join a big law firm, only to find out how poorly he fits in the corporate world.
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This war, waged by the American Beverage Association and sugary drink manufacturers like Coca-Cola, includes a slew of duplicitous tactics, like funding research to give a hue of legitimacy to their anti-tax claims, pursuing social media influencers, lobbying at every level of government and targeting key journalists for persuasion.
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Indeed, some of the season's best material stems from Claire's apparent belief that other women will get in line behind her simply because she's a woman, when many of those women can see that Claire is duplicitous and amoral and perhaps not someone they want to sell their souls to.
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The director of the Knoedler & Company gallery in Manhattan, which sold dozens of fakes as the work of modern masters, was not duplicitous, but duped by paintings so expertly forged that they also escaped detection by several prominent art experts, a lawyer for the director, Ann Freedman, told jurors in court on Tuesday.
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"As a Russia analyst for many years, it also has appalled me that hosts who made their reputations as super-patriots and who, justifiably, savaged President Obama for his duplicitous folly with Putin, now advance Putin's agenda by making light of Russian penetration of our elections and the Trump campaign," Peters wrote.
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Add in the San Francisco setting, a possibly duplicitous blonde with multiple identities (Gretchen Mol in the Kim Novak role) and smaller touches like a flower-shop surveillance scene and a quiet moment on a bench inside a city landmark, and the first five episodes of "Chance" feel like an extended "Vertigo" tribute.
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Rod Rosenstein lied, McCabe lied -- nothing new for him -- and Yates and Comey and the rest of them all lied, and they all signed off on a warrant application based on a document that is so duplicitous even Steele himself in court proceedings and Great Britain conceded that the dossier was not confirmed or verified.
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In recent years, Canada has become a vocal advocate for international action on climate, so the hard push for the Trans Mountain Pipeline, a three-fold increase in the westward flow of tar sands petroleum products, and a seven-fold increase in tanker traffic in the waters off British Columbia and Washington state seems duplicitous.
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Some ex-Trumpites depart hoping to still parlay the experience; Sean SpicerSean Michael SpicerIn defense of Karamo Brown, and civility Ex-sycophants highlight the void of competence around Trump Conservatives lash out at CNN for hiring Andrew McCabe MORE is as duplicitous on the speaking stump today as he was as White House press secretary.
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The plot has some creaky elements—a duplicitous international art star and an estate named Summer Madness play important roles—but Gappah creates memorable characters, and illuminates Zimbabwe's society and politics in fascinating ways, especially in her depictions of prison life, and in her retellings of the harrowing stories that landed the inmates there.
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Among the episode's less successful gambits, both narratively and creatively, was Darlene's ploy to to use Agent Dom's badge to gain access to the F.B.I. The most effective lies being mostly true, Darlene outlined the stressers that have legitimately plagued her all season — the deception, the isolation — as part of a duplicitous seduction attempt.
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RELATED: John Roberts rejects requests for same-day audio of census citizenship arguments Urging the justices to defer to US District Court Judge Jesse Furman's findings regarding duplicitous Commerce Department explanations for the citizenship question, the former judges wrote that "reaffirming the legitimacy and competence of trial courts is particularly critical today" as the judicial system is under attack.
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While numerous statues of treasonous Confederate leaders still stare down bystanders in the U.S. Capitol, Paine's enduring challenge to our nation to resist duplicitous authority, uphold inalienable freedoms of speech and the press, recognize our country as a sanctuary for refugees, and "reinvent" the world in our own times, remains as vital as in his own Revolutionary times.
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The response by so many athletes to President Sentient Egg Avatar's "Get that son of a bitch off the field right now" statement during a speech in Alabama on Friday was wonderful but also indicative of our current reality: that the stupidest, most duplicitous people have hijacked the conversation Kaepernick started and placed NFL players in a reactionary position.
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The softboi is there, too, in the duplicitous response to #MeToo from figures like Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who went out of his way to write a comment piece lauding "this extraordinary feminist movement" less than a month after yet another tabloid infidelity scandal prefaced the news that he and his wife of 25 years were divorcing.
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But while Jones tries to frame Kelly as duplicitous, she does make it clear to him that she's going to ask about his controversies and her references to giving viewers some "red meat" and saying a portion of the show will emulate the famously combative 60 Minutes anchor Mike Wallace were clear suggestions that the interview would have some tough moments.
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There had been no major rumblings of difficulty on the set of the young Han Solo movie, which stars Alden Ehrenreich as a 20-something version of Harrison Ford's infamous smuggler, Donald Glover in the role of his duplicitous frenemy Lando Calrissian — originated in The Empire Strikes Back by Billy Dee Williams — and Joonas Suotamo taking over Chewbacca from Peter Mayhew.
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That Saudi Arabia should be using Kosovo as a breeding ground for extremists, or allowing it to be used as a breeding ground by any Saudi entity or citizen, is a cruel reminder of the contradictory and even duplicitous behavior of America's partners in the Persian Gulf and helps to explain why its relationships with those countries have become increasingly troubled.
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Season 2, streaming Friday, May 27, finds Danny haunting the Rayburns' dreams: not just those of his protector turned murderer, John (Kyle Chandler), brazenly campaigning for county sheriff, but also their siblings, the duplicitous Meg (Linda Cardellini), recently ascended to a New York law firm, and the perpetually buzzed Kevin (Norbert Leo Butz), now the master of his own boatyard.
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In the long-expected complaint, which was filed in Federal District Court in San Francisco, the F.T.C. accused Volkswagen of selling or leasing more than 550,000 diesel vehicles over a seven-year period, at an average price of about $30,000, using a duplicitous campaign that asserted the cars were environmentally friendly, met emissions standards and had a high resale value.
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Successive attempts at negotiations with the Taliban have failed for an array of reasons: the Taliban's enduring strength on the battlefield and support among some of the rural population; policy disputes within the Taliban that have hamstrung their negotiators; a weak Afghan government split over the wisdom of negotiations; and Pakistan's duplicitous role in nominally supporting negotiations while sustaining support for the Taliban.
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And in "Tree of Smoke" (2007), which won the National Book Award, a young intelligence officer finds himself caught in the wilderness of mirrors that was the Vietnam War — a war, in Mr. Johnson's telling, not so different from our recent, disastrous engagement in Iraq — where it's increasingly difficult to distinguish between the well-intentioned and the mercenary, the honest and the duplicitous.
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The book, denounced by Russia's diplomatic mission in Nicosia as "politically unacceptable," portrayed Moscow as a duplicitous partner that had for decades used disinformation, front organizations and other tools of subterfuge to woo support among Greek-Cypriots while working behind the scenes to stoke tensions to ensure that Cyprus never aligned too firmly with the West or became a NATO member.
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J. Peter Pham, an Atlantic Council Africa specialist who has been considered by the Trump administration for the job of assistant secretary of state for African affairs, suggested in a telephone interview on Tuesday that one reason for Chad's inclusion on the list was that the country has "played a somewhat duplicitous role against Boko Haram," and only cracked down on the group after its trade routes became endangered.
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" In his book The Persistence of Hollywood, film theorist and historian Thomas Elsaesser traces the ideological ambiguity of Hollywood film back to the Hays code of 1934, which put strict limits on what was allowed to be shown on film: "Classical Hollywood excelled in creating movies that were ambivalent and even duplicitous, without becoming incoherent: a strategy of multiple entry-points that permitted different audiences to have 'access' to the film emotionally and intellectually.
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For every plutocrat who diligently elevates a team to a global brand (Abramovich at Chelsea), there's a chicken consortium that sends a venerable club down to the Championship (Venky's at Blackburn), a human-rights-violating head of state (Thailand's Thaksin Shinawatra year of owning Manchester City), and duplicitous American financiers content to load a club with debt (Malcolm Glazer at Manchester United) or to treat it like a dull, lucrative, asset (Stan Kroenke at Arsenal).
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On Sunday, April 33, some 100,000 sports entertainment fans will descend upon AT&T Stadium just outside Dallas, Texas, to see veteran WWE Superstar Triple H defend his WWE World Heavyweight championship against divisive upstart Roman Reigns, and to see the returning Shane McMahon (who's the duplicitous, ungrateful son of WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon) face off against The Undertaker, who is dead, for control of Monday Night Raw, World Wrestling Entertainment's flagship television program.
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