Word: machiavellianism
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...self-confidence and self-righteousness. He has a handsome easy manner and he uses his mobile (and bushy) eyebrows to great comic effect. From France, Lancelot has travelled to join Arthur's new order, the Knights of the Round Table, a chilvalrous fraternity dedicated to Arthur's new Machiavellian philosophy that might should be the weapon of right. Arthur welcomes him readily while the rest of the court initially is sickened by his conceit. This is a fine lively moment for the east and Meyers delivers some especially sharp jabs at Lancelot's lack of humility...
Meanwhile, in Washington, the eponymous city of the man who fought to have the inequities of hereditary privilege purged from a new nation, socialites and politicians were maneuvering like Machiavellian courtiers in order to meet the Prince and Princess. "It's the social event of the season," said former White House Aide Michael Deaver, who now heads his own p.r. firm. "This is one of those events that if you're not invited," said Sheila Tate, Nancy Reagan's former press secretary, "you'll plan to be away for the weekend so no one will know." Miss Manners, a.k.a. Washington...
...Says he: "If Baker blocked you, you could go to Meese or Clark. No more. Regan will nail up the back door." A Washington-based business leader sees another key difference in the Baker and Regan styles. "Let's face it," he contends, "Baker and those guys are Machiavellian operators. They'd tell you one thing, but you had no idea what they were really doing. With Regan, it's all on the table. You know exactly where he stands and what he thinks...
Behind this austere facade, Ackroyd finds a tormented and divided soul. Eliot shied away from attention while courting it with Machiavellian skills. Ezra Pound, another American expatriate, aptly nicknamed him "Old Possum." Pound had tried and failed to take over literary London through energy and bravado; Eliot succeeded through diffidence and self-denigration. He invited sympathy; friends who knew he was overworked were startled to see him wearing a green face powder that accentuated his cadaverous pallor. Yet he repulsed those who tried to ease his burdens; several plans to raise money that would free Eliot of his bank duties...
...insurance companies who have lobbied persistently for mandatory air bags rather than the intrusive, easily detachable automatic seat belts favored by the auto industry. "It's a bloody snare and a mischievous delusion," said Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader. "I didn't believe [the Government] could be so Machiavellian in giving the auto companies a chance to do in the air bag once and for all." The State Farm Insurance Co. and the National Association of Independent Insurers have filed a suit claiming that Dole's order is illegal in allowing state legislatures the power to rule...