Word: schemer
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...half-mad mystic wife Agnes and his devout but lustful brother Henry, while at the same time concealing her shameful origins and making sure her sugar daddy stays sweet on her. Sugar seduces us because Faber lets us see both sides of her at once, the magnificent sexual schemer and the angry, damaged teenager whose mother sold her to a stranger at the age of 13. When she holds Rackham's little daughter Sophie, the only innocent soul in the whole book, Sugar feels "more physical joy than she's felt in a lifetime of embraces." It's a wrenching...
...waitress at the Two Windmills cafe in Paris, Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) is one of the legion of shy solitaries that few people seek out and fewer movies think to put at their center. But inside this gamine child of 23 is a priestess of the imagination, a ruthless schemer, a canny do-gooder, a lover. She has mischief in her, and a kind of secular sainthood...
...cowboy on the ropes for a while. But after eighteen (or is it nineteen?) consecutive challenge victories, Colby looks to have outran and outlasted the curse, and the betting here is that resentment or not, the jury has probably come around to the fact that without a schemer-in-chief to take the Machiavelli prize this season, the man deserves the million on physical and mental prowess alone...
...right. Virgin's reams of cheerful consumer research notwithstanding, Branson came in third on bbc radio's lighthearted year-end Villain of the Year poll. And in December an unauthorized biography by journalist Tom Bower-which seems to try the fancy trick of painting Branson as both a Machiavellian schemer and a reckless fool-ranked alongside Branson's own autobiography on the Sunday Times business best-seller list. (Branson has sued Bower for libel over a newspaper article...
...friends) fall. The results are unsettlingly accurate. Among my friends, the I-banking wizards were labeled as Businessmen, the drama queens as Performers and the loudmouths as Politicians. In some cases, the similarities were even more striking. My close friend, the Mastermind, fits the profile not only as a "schemer" and "plotter," but even her forehead bears a strange resemblance to the rather large cranium possessed by the Mastermind on the Web site...