Word: machiavellianism
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...time, P.V. Narasimha Rao, in a modern variation of the Nero legend, slept while the mosque was being destroyed. Even his Cabinet colleagues were not allowed to disturb his sleep, according to numerous statements made by them (after he lost power). Rao rationalized his abdication of responsibility with Machiavellian rationale. The BJP was committing suicide, he argued. Why interfere...
ROBERT ILER plays Tony Soprano Jr., the doughy son of an enterprising, Machiavellian Mob boss on The Sopranos; he is also a child actor. Not since Drew Barrymore merged child acting with a vodka-filled gene pool has a young'un been so destined for a date with trouble. Iler, 16, joined the fabled ranks of Barrymore, Danny Bonaduce and the cast of Diff'rent Strokes when he and three associates were arrested last week. New York City police called it a case of strong-arm robbery, in which two teen victims were relieved of $40. Iler pleaded not guilty...
...understood too quickly. On the surface, it looks as if Condit has been guilty of disastrously bad public relations-concealing himself for so long from the press, seeming evasive, looking guilty etc etc. But think, if only for the sake of speculation: a deftly sinister and manipulative Machiavellian, if he were guilty of something far worse than adultery, might behave exactly as Condit has. That is, he might use an apparent ineptness at public relations, combined with grudging revelation of the affair with an intern (tacky, but comparatively innocent, under the circumstances) to mask an infinitely uglier offense. This would...
...Apologies are powerful. They are disarming. I would even counsel using them in a Machiavellian way. We must all stoop to conquer sometimes. Moreover, apologies preempt further animosity by palliating the aggrieved. What's so terrible about that...
...Tokyo, he enhanced his reputation as a calculating dealmaker. His critics describe him as Machiavellian, willing to break bread with anyone if it furthers his cause. In 1998, when Obuchi was having trouble holding together a fragile multi-party coalition, Nonaka approached an arch-enemy, Ichiro Ozawa, whose defection from the LDP in 1993 ushered the party out of power for the only time since its inception in 1955. Nonaka had called Ozawa a "devil" for that insult. But he went to Ozawa, hat in hand, and persuaded him to rejoin Obuchi's coalition. Once the relationship was cemented...