Word: machiavellianism
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Chatfield described the civil rights movement as "Machiavellian...
...simple, perhaps Machiavellian fact is that if the U.S. were consistently to apply its policy of economically penalizing any country with human rights violations, it would have no trading partners left. No state is morally blameless, because every state, by definition, is a political entity before it is an agent of morality...
...tremendous psychological and physical investments in their bodies In an article entitled "Eating Disorders in Males: A Special Case?" Anderson claims that both male athletes and anorexics abuse substances in attempts to achieve near-impossible goals of body weight or muscular definition. Whether it be steroids or laxatives, in Machiavellian terms the end is though to justify the means...
Better yet, watch Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson) face a similar problem in To Play the King, a wickedly entertaining BBC mini-series that has just debuted on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre for a four-week run. Urquhart, the Machiavellian party hack who schemed his way to the prime ministry in the 1990 mini-series House of Cards, is now ensconced in power but facing an unexpected challenge from the newly crowned King of England. The politically naive but idealistic monarch (modeled loosely on Prince Charles) has taken to delivering feisty, compassionate speeches about the poor and staging canny photo...
...Harvard's argument was challenged by aDelaware Chancery Court judge, who called it"dark" and "Machiavellian." The Universityeventually settled its feud with Marriott and thecompany's breakup went ahead as planned...