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1 Mr Ferguson is able to portray Mr Kissinger as an idealist partly because he has so little to say about the professor’s machinations in the pursuit and manipulation of power.

2 The machinations of Sabor are complex and engrossing, and one gets the sense that Fie’s journey is only one small peek into a much larger, expansive lore that Owen has created.

3 It’s the one about the theft of an 18th-century cow creamer and the machinations of the would-be dictator Roderick Spode, leader of the Black Shorts.

4 She added, “One of the most moving aspects of the project has been watching playwrights and actors dive into the machinations of these large scale plays.”

5 In many ways I feel like she outgrows the confines of their world together, but in a certain sense, despite all the petty machinations, his faith in her never wavers.

6 The Germans had accepted the Nazi propaganda that “they were caught up in a war of national defence, forced upon them by Allied machinations and Polish aggression.”

7 But it’s sometimes hard not to notice the plot machinations that are going on to make sure that problems are set up for the future and that its core conflicts are not resolved too soon.

8 For one thing, the plot machinations often were inscrutable.

9 His interests lie in the machinations of local and state politics.

10 Near film’s end, through various plot machinations, he is forced to pass as a “war bride.”

11 Others regard them as heroes who gave young African-Americans power and pride in the face of endemic racism, only to be brought down by Hoover's machinations.

12 Embroiled in the machinations of her godfather — a minister unseen during the opera, who plots to topple a corrupt regime in the Han court of China about A.D.

13 There followed many more years of wrangling over his estate, with the widow the object of family machinations to rival anything in Machiavelli.

14 Her relative anonymity allowed her to let loose in front of the small crowd, and those who clicked with the percussive, ululating machinations that filtered out of her USB hollered and jerked along.

15 The argument is that Let The Right One In was so original, so thought-provoking, so utterly insurmountable that it deserves to be left unmangled by Hollywood's suspect machinations.

16 In a memorable podcast, Ira Glass talked to a group of girls about their lives online, unpicking the machinations of their Instagram feeds as they watched the comments under their selfies roll in.

17 All the machinations of the complicated plot.

18 Spurlock has already established that this movie is about the machinations that corrupt artists and their art.

19 That the feeble machinations of this breathless action thriller are based in a semblance of spy-trade truth does help its hurtling narrative seem slightly less preposterous.

20 Her words tap into our interior lives and challenge our often naïve assumptions about both our own and the world’s machinations.

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