There are plenty of idiosyncrasies and misdirections in the accruing, elliptical rhythms she creates.
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It's the reader's own mind that bends to the subtle misdirections and evasions of her storytelling.
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Even Mighty Ducks 2 threw us some misdirections before the good guys won in the end.
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It's the first of the novel's many misdirections, a bait-and-switch operating at many levels.
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It's astounding how those tiny misdirections fool your gut into believing that what you're seeing is real.
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Sure, some believe these piles and piles of misdirections to be a flaw in Game of Thrones' creators' storytelling.
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As with previous misdirections, hinting that Rich was responsible gave WikiLeaks a means of not implicating the Russian government.
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Crane was played by Janet Leigh in the original, and her inclusion was one of Alfred Hitchcock's great misdirections.
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A couple of misdirections I was fond of were clues for ESP and GLAND, and there were fun clues galore.
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In aggregate, over time, these thousands of solicitations and misdirections have gently but constantly made my inbox a worse place.
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The timeline of how the lie of Clinton's constitutional crisis was born and grew is full of Machiavellian-level misdirections.
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Thanks to the past few years of American politics, we've learned that not all of the media's little misdirections are benign.
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These type of misdirections can even happen as you browse the web, through poisoned pop-up advertising or deceitful, SEO-optimized advertising.
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Press secretary Sarah Sanders was caught lying several times in special counsel Robert Mueller's report, and now she's defending herself with more misdirections.
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To ask defenses to slow him down when engaged against a confusing stream of direct handoffs, misdirections, and off-ball screens, is impossible.
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Their system is back-of-your hand familiar, but the Clippers avoid stale predictability by running misdirections to create open looks with crafty screens.
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The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that our gun violence problem is also a language problem — euphemisms, distortions, misdirections.
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Although Washington emits baldfaced lies with startling regularity these days, I encourage journalists to refocus on the more pernicious misdirections, like Mr. Ryan's magic asterisks.
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Lest we get too focused on all the funny business involved in railroad mania, there are red herrings to sniff out and misdirections to blindly follow.
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In many cases, it will be a slight ramping up of the clues from the straightforward Monday — a few more misdirections, maybe, but still fairly straightforward.
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Both teams use lots of different wrinkles, secondary actions, and misdirections, but the staple of each offense is the pick-and-roll with elite shooters around the arc.
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There were a few good puns and misdirections, like ATF; I thought the clue for SPELL was great, and liked the pair of clues for APPLY and OPT.
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It alleged, through a series of allusions, tangential facts, and seeming misdirections, that law enforcement officials had abused their power in obtaining a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.
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Every clue has at least one form of trickery, you're rarely able to completely solve any clues with crosses, and the misdirections can be creative, frankly, to the point of mild lunacy.
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As far as misdirections, my personal notes included "recap" for SUM UP and that one little "N" instead of "E" that I'm sure others stumbled on — it was down a STEEP slope.
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As it turned out, the harbinger of what was to come here was not Neymar's injury, or Cavani's, or any of the other feints and misdirections offered by P.S.G. in recent weeks.
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This is improvisation-driven music, right at the corner of jazz and post-rock, but there are none of the showy, full-band misdirections that have become so typical of jazz today.
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And he seems game to play along, taking advantage of that history to deploy red herrings and misdirections, hinting at a twist-eriffic payoff when he's really interested in keeping things honest for once.
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But if Robert's Rebellion and the War for the Seven Kingdoms really are both based on misdirections and lies, then his larger point gains even more poignancy: Much of that death didn't need to happen.
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There were a few potential misdirections today if you were speed solving — "dug" for ORE as it was clued, "task" for DESK, "nil" for ZIP — I guess these happen every day, but I fell for a couple.
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Despite all of the malware's unprecedented deceptions and misdirections, Matonis could now tie Olympic Destroyer to a specific GRU unit, working at 22 Kirova Street in Khimki, Moscow, a tower of steel and mirrored glass on the western bank of the Moscow Canal.
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Manchester United's party wasn't entirely done, as Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a brace, the first goal of which involved a beautiful series of misdirections only to skip along a tidy little goal into the left corner from well-clear of the top of the box.
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Mr. Mueller's interest in criminalizing lies and misdirections "within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the Government of the United States," as Mr. Cohen's charging document states, is an admonition to anyone who has testified on Russia before Congress — a body, despite its recent fecklessness, that, at least to Mr. Mueller, is meant to provide oversight of the executive branch on behalf of all Americans.
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The "Thatchers" in the title cheekily refer to a series of destroyed busts of Margaret Thatcher; in the original story, the busts are the center of a giant mystery, but in the updated version, they're side jokes in an episode full of misdirections and side excursions into mini cases, montages, and flashbacks that serve no purpose other than to illuminate the frustrating genius of one Sherlock Holmes.
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Charles Merivale, History of the Romans under the Empire, ch. 34, 1864.Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, xv. 9. §3. As a result of Syllaeus' misdirections, the army took six months to reach Ma'rib, the Sabaean capital.
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Beside military tactics, characters in the manhua engaged in numerous misdirections and feints to confuse and befuddle their enemies, such as deliberately letting their enemy know their next move in a battle, going along with an enemy's plan to gain certain advantages and more.
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These failures amounted to misdirections and an approach on the wrong principles.87A/B - D/E. As to the relief sought against Ajax, the court found nothing to prove that it had induced Igesund to break his contract. The fact that Ajax had made an offer did not in itself prove an inducement.
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Until the mid-1860s, the place was usually spelt Cranley. The Post Office persuaded the vestry to use "-leigh" to avoid misdirections to nearby Crawley in West Sussex. The older spelling is publicly visible in the Cranley Hotel. The name is recorded in the Pipe Rolls as Cranlea in 1166 and Cranelega in 1167.
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MahaQuizzer was envisaged as a quiz that would test the contestant's ability to make informed guesses rather than his/her memory. It typically features 150 text-questions, which must be answered in 90 minutes. The questions normally run into several sentences and may contain clues as well as misdirections. Participants fill in their answers, and no negative marking is applied.
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One High Court judge said privately that he would have stopped the trial before it reached the jury.Levin, p. 85 The human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson has campaigned for the case to be reopened on several grounds, including the premature scheduling of the trial, lack of evidence to support the main charges, and various misdirections by the trial judge in his summing up.
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The three arrive at a six-story building known as the Bureau of Reclaimed Spaces. In the lobby they are told that in order to receive directions to Dogwood Drive they must first obtain an ingestion notice from within the Bureau. The receptionist suggests they seek out Lula Chamberlain, currently the Bureau's senior clerk. After a series of bureaucratic misdirections, the three manage to meet with Lula.
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The Scarab Murder Case (1929) is a classic whodunit written by S. S. Van Dine. In this book, detective Philo Vance's murder investigation takes place in a private home that doubles as a museum of Egyptology, and the solution depends in part on Vance's extensive knowledge of Egyptian history and customs, which enable him to sort through suggestions of godly vengeance and reveal the misdirections perpetrated by the real murderer.
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In its judgment on sentence, the trial court had not mentioned the appellant's personal circumstances, and had dealt only with the seriousness of the offences. The magistrate seemed to the High Court not to have appreciated the difference between the offences of which the appellant had been convicted, and the offences of murder and attempted murder. These amounted to misdirections that entitled the High Court to interfere with sentence. The appellant had a clean record.
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D' Este imposed conditions, however, and the projected deal, when news got out, caused much indignation. Through a series of misdirections and strategems, Medici convinced the cardinals that Montalto was not his candidate. Ludovico Cardinal Madruzzo, who was the designated leader of the Spanish faction, then arrived in Rome and had conversations with the Spanish and Imperial ambassadors before he entered conclave. Meeting immediately with d' Este, Madruccio learned of d' Este's dislike of his own favorite, Sirleto.
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In November 1942, the Pied Pipers had a disagreement with Dorsey when he fired Clark Yocum, a guitarist and vocalist who had replaced Billy Wilson in the lineup, when he mistakenly gave the bandleader misdirections at a railroad station in Portland, Oregon. The remaining three members then quit in an act of solidarity. At the time, the number-one song in the United States was "There Are Such Things" by Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers. Sinatra also left Dorsey that year.
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Jim Rose wrote the autobiographical Freak Like Me (Real, Raw, and Dangerous) with journalist Melissa Rossi in 1995 (). The book describes Rose's early years and features a stream of consciousness on-the-road account of the Jim Rose Circus tour with Lollapalooza. The book's title is a reference to Black Like Me. Rose also released the book 'Snake Oil (Life's Calculations, Misdirections, And Manipulations) in 2005. Rose was written about extensively in Marilyn Manson's autobiography 'Long Hard Road Out Of Hell'.
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Later, Nightmare was able to access human minds through the concept of the 'American dream'. Many people who were deeply patriotic or had achieved a degree of success through hard work were going on violent rampages. Nightmare was soon stopped by the combined forces of Captain America, Sharon Carter, and S.H.I.E.L.D. In the Tempest Fugit storyline of The Incredible Hulk it is revealed that Nightmare has been plaguing the Hulk for years with hallucinations, misdirections, and manipulations of reality, by empowering himself.The Incredible Hulk vol.
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While there were many plot twists and misdirections, fundamentally the entire season consisted of one defense case for Hoffman & Associates. In the second season, Benzali was replaced by Anthony LaPaglia as Jimmy Wyler, a former assistant district attorney who took over Hoffman's firm. The second season also featured this type of seriality, to a limited extent: three unrelated trials, over 18 episodes. The serial nature of the drama may have been problematic, leaving viewers who either missed episodes or did not see the series from its premiere at a loss.
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Operation Royal Flush formed part of Operation Bodyguard, a broad strategic military deception intended to confuse the Axis high command as to Allied intentions during the lead-up to the Normandy landings. Royal Flush developed a series of political misdirections in mid-1944 to support other deceptions between June and July. It evolved from Operation Graffham, a political deception aimed at Sweden between February and March 1944. Graffham was suggested and planned by the London Controlling Section (LCS) with the aim of convincing the Swedish government that the Allies intended to invade Norway, in support of Operation Fortitude North.
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A contract for 1,000 aircraft was placed initially with the Fisher Body Corporation, but this was subsequently cancelled and reallocated to the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company instead. On 7 December 1917, the order was doubled to 2,000 aircraft. On 25 January 1918, the first aircraft, which was given the designation U.S.A 0-1, was completed, despite the warnings and misgivings of Barnwell, who was not satisfied by some of the modifications made, particularly in the use of the Liberty L-12 engine.Bruce 1965, pp. 8-9. According to Bruce, misdirections attributed to Major E.J. Hall of the U.S. Signals Corps had led to roughly 1,400 production drawings produced by Curtiss being rendered obsolete.
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According to Jesse and Michael, Riley (Sonja Sohn) is the ruthless counterintelligence agent for the CIA who "wrote the book on counterintelligence". After Michael kills Card in cold blood, Riley is the first responder to the scene, capably countering effectively all of Michael's plans and misdirections. While Michael was able to capture Riley and tried to explain his side of the story, she was unconvinced and unmoved even after Michael let her go, swearing she will hunt Michael to "the ends of the Earth", and will do it at all costs. With Michael and his team in the wind, she focuses her attention on Madeline and almost catches her too, resulting in Michael including Madeline in the team's escape plans.
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