How To Use Cloak-and-dagger In A Sentence
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Then, it was all murderous cloak-and-dagger stuff conducted far from the light of day, with scant regard for the law or human rights.
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cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines
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Donovan much later would call him “a real cloak-and-dagger boy.”
Wild Bill Donovan
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WikiLeaks suspect's trial near super-secure NSA The military intelligence complex an hour outside Washington where the WikiLeaks case goes to court this week is known as a cloak-and-dagger sanctum off-limits to the public - a reputation that's only party true.
The Seattle Times
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A recent case with facts that read like a cloak-and-dagger novel raises serious questions about the psychotherapist-patient privilege.
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But don't think there's any cloak-and-dagger spying going on.
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Because the networks handle the exit polls in such a cloak-and-dagger fashion, not every newscaster who talks about them understands their limitations.
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Some four decades back, he had been the kind of wide-eyed teenager who thought one could volunteer for the KGB, who had believed the cloak-and-dagger stories, only to find in the organs he had romanticized an atavistic bureaucracy staffed by anti-Semites, paper pushers, careerists, and more than a few sadists.
The Return
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In a bit of cloak-and-dagger grandiosity, the firms dubbed their collaboration Team Themis, after a titan of Greek mythology who embodied natural law.
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This government is better about it than most, but it's had its fair share of power-hungry cloak-and-dagger wonks.
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Doing it after school hours or in some organised cloak-and-dagger way is surely the opposite to what the school is trying to achieve.
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He saw me at the hungry i in San Francisco two years ago and that's when he had the brilliant idea to use me in a cloak-and-dagger deal.
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Publication has been shrouded in cloak-and-dagger security.
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These are some of the questions that the Punjab law, which was enacted in a cloak-and-dagger manner, has raised.
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The military intelligence complex an hour outside Washington where the WikiLeaks case goes to court this week is known as a cloak-and-dagger sanctum off-limits to the public - a reputation that's only party true.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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At stake amidst this cloak-and-dagger power play is the growth of not only black rugby, but of rugby as a whole in the region.
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While it's a little talkier and more reliant on suspense and mystery than trigger-happy American action shows, it should please any fan of cloak-and-dagger antics.
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Hollywood was always ready to bankroll cloak-and-dagger movies that played on those suspicions.
O: A Presidential Novel
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The military intelligence complex an hour outside Washington where the WikiLeaks case goes to court this week is known as a cloak-and-dagger sanctum off-limits to the rest of the world.
ABC News: Top Stories
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Hughes's dramatic arrival at the local airport seemed symbolic of the cloak-and-dagger air surrounding the US skaters.
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He engaged in cloak-and-dagger operations for Louis XIII and then for Louis XIV, the Sun King, who appointed him to lead the musketeers in 1658.
D'Artagnan Buried in The Netherlands?
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The Windows drive is patched with whatever the MS auto-update cloak-and-dagger process does to it.
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Exactly how cloak-and-dagger are the secret prisons?
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The last part of the story read like something straight out of Hitchcock, with all the cloak-and-dagger characters and international rendezvous of a noir thriller.
A Covert Affair
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He engaged in cloak-and-dagger operations for Louis XIII and then for Louis XIV, the Sun King, who appointed him to lead the musketeers in 1658.
D'Artagnan Buried in The Netherlands?
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It makes all this cloak-and-dagger stuff worthwhile.
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By their very nature, underworld deals are negotiated and sealed in cloak-and-dagger secrecy.
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There was a cloak-and-dagger element to the procedure, soured by a clandestine taint, like ducking out of a 1950s nightclub to smoke weed.
In the Plex
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Part of the misperception today stems from the cloak-and-dagger intrigue so prevalent in pop culture's version of international police work.
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So what did this man do to merit a cloak-and-dagger operation estimated to have cost close to £1m?
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A decade ago, a cloak-and-dagger novel of mine was roundly panned in the daily Times.
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He leaves our building at a trot, then saunters down West End Avenue, thrilling at the cloak-and-dagger fun.
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Most writers use conventions most of the time, of course; it is all part of the cloak-and-dagger craft of catching readers unaware.
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Or they can pull a cloak-and-dagger job and install taps at a cellular company's base station.
