intrigue

How To Use intrigue In A Sentence

• He needed somebody to trust in this morass of intrigue and double meaning that was called the royal court.
• It was this conviction that made the intrigues at OKH, the disregard and "mislaying" of unwelcome instructions, such a personal affair in the first summer's campaign. Barbarossa
• I'm also intrigued by this "heather in the 'shwa", being from the 'Shwa, myself. Don't Break Your Arm...
• The plot and intrigue don't come from a script, but from careful editing and control of the set.
• The movie would perhaps be better described as a suspenseful intrigue, but due to the inclusion of zombies, undead or not, it gets called "horror. Epinions Recent Content for Home
• American football, on the other hand, is a game of intrigue, strategies and intellect.
• He could not recall Plauen having talked much about the modern Empire, except to label it a weakling, lost in fantasies of its past, battling for life in a hostile age, constantly stalked by hostile intrigues. The Swordbearer
• _philosopheress_ Madame du Châtelet, who managed, at one and the same moment, the thread of an intrigue, her cards at piquet, and a calculation in algebra, was a very clever woman! Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
• But there's a falsity in the reaction to the disaster that both intrigues and disgusts me.
• Suppose we admit that Bernadette was not the shy, simple child we knew her to be; let us endow her with a spirit of intrigue and domination, transform her into a conqueress, a leader of nations, and try to picture what, in that case, would have happened. The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete