-
protestations such as "please don't
fling me in dat brier-patch"
refer to
guilefully s****ing
something by
pretending to protest, with a "briar patch" (a thicket...
- crafty, false-hearted; egocentric, insincere, deceitful, calculating,
guileful.
Theatrical histrionic (Variant of "pure" pattern) Affected, mannered,...
-
Diana decides to play Jacinda’s game and uses Vlad to s****
revenge on the
guileful judge.
After bidding farewell to his
colleagues in the
police force, Jonaf...
-
referred to by
Homer in the Odyssey. The connection, in this case,
between guileful tactics of the
Achaeans and the
Trojans in the
Iliad and
those of the later...
- Koen-Sarano,
Folktales of Joha,
Jewish Trickster: The
Misadventures of the
Guileful Sephardic Prankster. A
survivor of Auschwitz,
Moshe Ha-Elion,
issued his...
-
Indians "as p****ive, ignorant, irrational,
outwardly submissive but
inwardly guileful", the
Parsis were seen to have the
traits that the
authorities tended to...
- pp 156–158), who
refers to this "ancient story",
which is one of the "tales of
guileful deeds performed by
cunning gods,
mostly at a time when they had not joined...
- goddess-sorceress Circe. "Circe
would fain have held me back in her halls, the
guileful lady of Aeaea,
yearning that I
should be her husband". (Homer, Odyssey...
- with her and the two
children she
eventually bears him. Mani****tive,
guileful and
utterly shameless, she
favors using grand emotional gestures the emotionally-starved...
-
Third Age"
Tolkien 1977, "The Akallabêth", p. 267. "Yet
Sauron was ever
guileful, and it is said that
among those whom he
ensnared with the Nine
Rings three...
