How To Use Scheming In A Sentence

The game is designed to be fun to play and a lighthearted approach to being a evil scheming megalomaniac, so although there are many different ways of being evil, there is no slavery or genocide.
She had been in New York for the past few weeks and knew little of the scheming that was going on in her absence.
In terms of scheming... there is a full court press going on right now to bring back the heroization of Chiang Ching-Kuo. Daily Links, April 10, 2009
Little did Thomas know that all his scheming would be moot in just a few hours.
Tabu does full justice to the spirit of Lady Macbeth; scheming, greedy, manipulative, yet not stonehearted enough to drink wine laced with blood.

Lillian Andrews, a scheming sexpot, seduces her married boss, causing divorce and general mayhem in the lives of those around her.
But his image belied a character which was scheming, ambitious and hungry for power. Times, Sunday Times
He heart was warmed by Pa'aga's caring concern for his well-being, and his own icy scheming melted away. Citizen of the Month
But they say, no one can equal a woman in scheming and planning, if she takes to it," said Eleanor. The Old Helmet
a scheming gold digger
Sexual or cold, scheming or honest, Huston seems as driven to triumph as Lily is.
They are scheming to get her elected as leader.
These are the people who make up the country, in his eyes, not the scheming gentry and generals who composed bourgeois nationalist parties.
In fact, it seems that the only people privy to the scheming duplicity of most of the contestants are the camera operators.
It's not everyday you see the grand thespian as a scheming womanizer who will stop short at nothing, save ‘a bit of crackling,’ to revive his stagnant career.
They are scheming and conniving and sometimes thoughtlessly cruel, too.
As a result of their scheming ways, the dastardly duo are clearly making enemies outside the house.
Home decorating and colour scheming advertorials might be offered by paint and wallpaper companies; indeed the opportunities are many and varied.
The Frasque had been scheming to sponsor civil war in the system, setting world against world.
There are extenuating circumstances, her ignorance, her naivety, her youth (not a crime, one character tries to reassure her), and another's scheming and deception.
They comply, but the scheming Lane has other plans.
She is scheming for Aimee and me to be betrothed before the season is over.
She's beautiful, which for some novelists is a recommendation in itself, and depending on which sources you believe, she may have been involved in a lot of scheming, which is good plot fodder. Nefertiti, by Michelle Moran. Book review
Those who assumed that somebody so ‘uncultured’ and naive was incapable of scheming found out their mistake too late.
They become betrothed, but the burgomaster Ghysbrecht, together with Gerard's scheming brothers and his outraged father, prevent the marriage and succeed in having the young man imprisoned.
I always thought this burg was Mecca for complainers, and anathema for lemmings and sheep who roll over for any scheming muckamuck who comes along. The "Go Back to Kansas" Argument
Without Thomas' scheming, the Vikings might rank last against the pass.
Napier may be best known as the scheming intelligence officer facing Sylvester Stallone in the 1985 "Rambo" sequel. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
There is much evidence that these officers spent much of their time scheming for their own political advantage and in hopes of being assigned their own regiments.
It's a talent that I've honed over my many years of scheming.
If by uppermost he meant right beside his constant scheming to restore his treacherous family to the wealth and power they had squandered in disloyalty, then I suppose he spoke truly enough. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
She's good at conniving and scheming and she knows it, no doubt she will twist the police against me.
A woman is sent to prison thanks to the scheming of her deceitful husband. The Sun
The films portray executives as scheming, manipulative and dishonest. The Sun
It was a secret operation that Michael had been scheming for years.
They must have learnt from the landlord that I had my ear to their window when he had arrived, and it is most likely that they, the devil priest in particular, would have recognised me from the tavern where I had first overheard their scheming.
A woman is sent to prison thanks to the scheming of her deceitful husband. The Sun
The first couple of times we meet her she seems to be a scheming, untrustworthy person willing to try any ploy to attract the attention of Maximus.
The situation becomes even more fraught with peril for Kate Daniels, as along with homicidal demigoddess aunts with a posse of undead mage servants, she also has to deal with scheming lycanthropes, bigoted knights, and being left in her undies, holding the dinner by big headed furry boyfriends. Archive 2010-06-01
After scheming for 13 years, hers is a cold and calculated act, working to a master plan.
The final outcome of his scheming, however, remains unknown because of the loss of the story's last six chapters.
She isn't a scheming adulteress - she's too naive, too hopeful.
Well! the Dujarrier was right," she said; "a woman's scheming works easier than a sinapism. His Excellency the Minister
The sculpture seems to accuse them of plotting and scheming, but that could just be me. Times, Sunday Times
It is clear that they are scheming against each other.
No. Plotting and scheming is not required, for complicitous in the under-development of Atlantic Canada, complicitous in the persistence of regional disparity are the very same national political institutions which have been set up to protect us. Canada. A View From the Regions
It's a plot fit for an evil genius, and Hallström's rapid-fire depiction of Irving's initial scheming is light and nimble. GreenCine Daily: The Hoax.
Members of the jury, we have given you overwhelming evidence leading up to the day of the plot; his plans; his actions; his plotting; his scheming.
The dire need for money is a constant concern for Lucy in the I Love Lucy plot lexicon, and this is one of the better examples of scheming gone sour.
His colleagues, meanwhile, were busily scheming to get rid of him.
Despite librarians' reputation for being riled only by noise, history suggests that they are a prone to scheming and political activism. Times, Sunday Times
He doubted she would be there, considering they were practically done with their scheming, but he was willing to hope for anything.
How on earth could we have put this scheming, mendacious little man and his miserable claque back in office for another three years?
However, her scheming ultimately leads to catastrophe.
I don't really care about catching up on how my beloved soap characters have been scheming and conniving.
The others are getting into it a bit more, the confrontations, scheming and arguments have started and we're barely a week in to the show.
Like the French Resistance, they're not taking it lying down, as they fight back with every scheming trick at their disposal.
In a commercial society, according to Rousseau, the people are "scheming, violent, greedy, ambitious, servile, and knavish . . . and all of it at one extreme or the other of misery and opulence. America's Enduring Ideal
Alas, it is becoming as tiresomely cliched as all the others, with its share of scheming women.
Four members of the family are remembered for their scheming and intrigue, including murder by poison.
Later in the movie, Pippo acquits himself as expected, scheming to save Elena with a tailor-made plan that should sew the plot up nicely - but the audience knows that it's about to get knotty.
Perhaps KB the wise old bird saw through the manipulation and the scheming of the pretenders, fakes, and exploiters, and was determined to keep the wolves away.
Prussia and put an end for ever to that secretive scheming of military aggressions which is the essential quarrel of Europe with Germany. What is Coming?
Its rigid structures and processes and predictable ways might stymie his unethical scheming.
Instead of actors following scripts in a studio, audiences can see people very like themselves plotting and scheming for advantage in any setting imaginable.
She's still the same girl, quite scheming, funny and quirky but she's got some new stuff to deal with.
Wall Street financial scheming is the easiest and lowest taxed money available, and I don’t think it’s a mystery why CEOs would be disinclined to work any harder for it. Matthew Yglesias » Financial Reform’s Missing Advocates
A little different here because the defense today -- very skillful job of portraying the alleged accuser, in particular the mom and the family, as basically scramming and scheming with a massive con trying to hit the jackpot for millions of dollars. CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2005
I hate it when she's like this because secretly behind her calm demeanor she's plotting and scheming.
The films portray executives as scheming, manipulative and dishonest. The Sun
Doubtless the politicians will enjoy plotting and scheming in the Jacobean nooks and corners.
Its holders see no beauty in the Universe, only scheming business people fleecing the commonweal.
Headline is a component of journalese, but it has peculiar features in diction, sentence scheming, etc.
He raised his price by leading an army paid for by Venice to victory over the French at Fornovo in June 1495, but his inveterate scheming led to imprisonment by Venice in 1509.
Enough of my “liberal whining” (I will condescend to that description – harharhar) – and back to Sarkozy/Iznogoud (famous French comic book character from the 1960s-1970s, a scheming grand vizir who is constantly thwarted in his efforts to be “califf instead of the califf”) Apart from the ambition they actually look alike. Matthew Yglesias » La France Multiculty
It's a glimpse into the golden age of kings, a lost world of luxury, political scheming, extravagance and hedonism.
Think bewildering numbers of parties, unexpected coalitions and backstairs scheming - but in the end it's the monopoly man that wins out.
And their scheming couldn't have been done at a better time.
The sallow-faced Salome averts her scheming eyes from what she has brought about.
In fact, they are scheming and cheating to get through it, or alternatively, are depressed and dissatisfied.
Sam is further wedged between the addictive scheming of Felix's bride-to-be Marjorie, and the vengeful counterplotting of his long-jilted mother Gloria.
I can think of no one in the whole world who could play a scheming windbag of a womaniser better than him!
She chats with me totally unaware that I'm practically scheming the whole time.
A scheming killer, this creature would play with its toys until they expired, and enjoy every minute of it if they did not make each move with great care.
I'm not sure whether the writers of The Prisoner were scheming to sensitize young viewers to a future appreciation of punk, Situationism, or Dada, but that's what happened to me.
With plenty of delightful romantic scheming from Dolly, this play is looking forward to a successful run.
Anyway, the Privateer, a former Manhunter who had apparently reformed, is revealed to be a scheming criminal mastermind. 26 « January « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
Event after event causes Philip to wonder whether Rachel is a scheming murderous or grossly maligned woman.
And, the obvious political scheming is equally indefensible to the point that unless I hear something that modifies, retracts or in some way qualifies what I think he is saying, I will no longer be able to speak on his behalf. Obama’s Chat With Bill Clinton - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Over the years it has been accused of everything from gross ineptitude and massive corruption to scheming for world domination.
His scheming boss and mob underling, Sykes, demands that Oscar pay up the clams he has borrowed during his get-rich-quick schemes.
The play bounces from scheming romance to high-camp comedy, leaving the audience torn between giggling and nail-biting over this complicated love hexagon.
a scheming wife
Even with all her superstar diva qualities, she's too lightweight, too soft to portray a scheming seductress.
His colleagues, meanwhile, were busily scheming to get rid of him.
In doing so, he must also outwit Francesca's scheming mother as well as her overweight fiancé, while schooling another admirer in the ways of love.
Egremont's perishable love, her own prudential forecasts and schemings, were stamped poor, worldly, ignoble, in comparison with this sacred and extinguishable ardour. Thyrza
Alison of course was doing some very careful scheming since Carleen's birthday was approaching rapidly.
In the television ad ... the apple character is named Bad Apple and is described as grouchy and sour and depicted as meddling and scheming," they wrote. Adland
Could he have been pushed into bumping off his main rival by his scheming wife? The Sun
Doug loved watching James Bond movies and idolised the bad guys, always plotting and scheming to become one himself, ‘only successful’ was his idea.
The authors of the 1834 report depicted unmarried mothers as scheming seductresses who entrapped young men into paying for their children.
Petit Jackson also accuses the Thriller hitmaker's mother, Katherine Jackson, of scheming to "abduct" her when she was nine in a bid to preserve the superstar's "reputation". Ottawa Sun
It's a glimpse into the golden age of kings, a lost world of luxury, political scheming, extravagance and hedonism.
Even with all her superstar diva qualities, she's too lightweight, too soft to portray a scheming seductress.
A woman is sent to prison thanks to the scheming of her deceitful husband. The Sun
Her portrait of this scheming villainess comes off as pure Hollywood camp.
‘You were plotting and planning and scheming again,’ Emilyn tried to explain.
I set about plotting and scheming, carving my gun from a piece of soap. 21 DOG YEARS
She will be the death us all if we do not beware of her scheming ways.
They weren't like Zach's eyes, that often gleamed from greed or scheming, but Mitch's eyes were like a child's on Christmas morning, full of innocence.
Sly-scheming Hermes "winked" knowingly at Jupiter when he was Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891
So, there comes his avaricious second wife, wicked, scheming and all that you would call ‘evil.’
When my friend told me about this aspect of the pre-interview my scheming humorist mind awakened like a sleeping giant.
A gigantic instance of his scheming was the coup-de-main by which he succeeded in entrapping 11,000 Paduan soldiers, only 200 of whom escaped the miseries of his prisons. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots
“Stop hanging around your good-for-nothing half-brother and that scheming bitch from Idaho.” Legend
The pub landlord has had enough of her scheming and warns her that she's out if she messes up one more time. The Sun
All of the ostensible scoundrels are scoundrels to the core, and their scheming, both inter- and intra-clan, is Byzantine to the point of being barely fathomable. 'Shame': Tracking The Travails of Lost Souls
They gathered last night for 36 hours of low-grade scheming, non-stop speechifying and back-slapping, commonly called the national conference.
They are scheming and conniving and sometimes thoughtlessly cruel, too.
Various dragons have been scheming, plotting, and trying to get him for years, and they've pretty much all ended up dead trying.
He became aware that people were scheming against him and called an emergency meeting.
This grandiose scheming is intercut with real news archive from the time, which shows the reverse - the siege descending into farce and defeat.
She was planning, or rather scheming, in her children's lives.
Semi-scheming, and living in the gray is a way of life. Semi-Scheming Way to TJ
Trapped by political scheming, he was left with little choice but to accept the military assignment.
Of course, contrary to the fantasies of the press, the strike was not the result of manipulation by ‘scheming lefties’.
Other conspirators include "Europeans [who] now see global warming as a means of hampering U.S. economic competitiveness" and yes, even Wal-Mart, the conservative stalwart, which is scheming to sell compact fluorescent bulbs rather than the cheaper but less efficient incandescent variety. Andrea Batista Schlesinger: 2007 Eye on the Right
Even with all her superstar diva qualities, she's too lightweight, too soft to portray a scheming seductress.
When she's not boffing the mail boy in the photocopier room she's scheming to get him fired.
In general, the gaggle of women scheming against Falstaff worked well with each other, complementing each other both vocally and dramatically.
Their own scheming behavior was equally if not more reprehensible.
Crazytown tastic! ... andy: all i can find for the word chancer is a scheming individual. no french translation. they must b mad! ... Life Without Toast - Sibling Rivalry
He had invented a silent, gliding movement as he lay scheming -- by means of strong tufts of grass he meant to gradually pull his body, snakewise, little by little away from the open into the wood. Queensland Cousins
She had black glittering, scheming eyes and was very blunt.
she was a deceitful scheming little thing
What a scheming, clever, manipulative little beast.
Intriguing, full of low malice and scheming, a "slanderer and substractor" he certainly was, but no fool. Marion's Faith.
Should Alaskans decide that meddlesome outsiders are scheming to do in their beloved “Uncle Ted,” spite alone will carry him to victory. The Man in the Middle
They have been described as scheming secret agents living in the shadows of the suburbs, but they looked no more sinister than bored parents in Federal District Court in Manhattan on NYT > Home Page
Doubtless the politicians will enjoy plotting and scheming in the Jacobean nooks and corners.
The innocent corruption of scheming, out-of-control teens will always be more compelling than all those witty rewrites of the lives of jaded middle-aged dilettantes who really have no excuse to be so soulless.
He became aware that people were scheming against him and called an emergency meeting.
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Set in the Depression in 1934, a charming but nefarious global financier Gregor Antonescu Frank Langella is scheming to save his multinational empire. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Man and Boy, Orson's Shadow
Regent, and still looked forward to a cardinalship as the reward of his scheming, his baseness, and his perfidy. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
But his image belied a character which was scheming, ambitious and hungry for power. Times, Sunday Times
Those three earsplitting beeps were a death knell: the demise of all my planning and scheming. The Dark Side of Innocence
But his image belied a character which was scheming, ambitious and hungry for power. Times, Sunday Times
She was incredibly intelligent, with a pristine photographic memory, and knew when someone was scheming for something.
HERE'S BLOOD IN YOUR EYE: Or at least the camera lens, as Starz' Spartacus: Vengeance gets underway (Friday, 10/9c) — or as I like to think of it, "Spurt-acus," thanks to all the gouts of blood, among other bodily fluids, that flow copiously throughout this lurid melodrama of savage swordplay, sordid scheming and animal carnality (a nice way to say sex, sex, sex). Weekend TV in Review: Good Wife, Luck, Spartacus, Hallmark's Moon
Shakespeares later play about Richard III, which cast the Plantagenet king as a scheming hunchbacked usurper who murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, so he could steal their throne for himself. Vanora Bennett - An interview with author
The antagonistic forces that fight with each other can't remain unscathed from their experiences since their scheming is bound to cause a deep change in the balance that both initially had.
He is a pleasantly scheming crook, with motley clothes and inimitable hairstyle; his definite traits are his love of rum, his philosophical resolve on revenge and his readiness to mock any expression of solemnity.
In fact, all of the dramatis personae are sketched as archetypes rather than fully developed characters - the noble and loyal warrior, the scheming courtesan, etc.
I don't really care about catching up on how my beloved soap characters have been scheming and conniving.
Kafka envisioned a man transformed into a gigantic insect; Homer described the plight of men transformed into pigs; in Shrek 2 an ogre is transformed into a human being, and a donkey into a steed; in Star Trek a scheming villain forcibly occupies Captain Kirk's body so as to take command of the Enterprise; in The Tale of the Body Thief, Anne Rice tells of a vampire and a human being who agree to trade bodies for a day; and in 13 Going on 30 a teenager wakes up as thirty-year-old Jennifer Garner. Is God an Accident?
I'd be lying, semi-conscious in my hospital bed, laid low by my flaky pods, defenceless against her scheming ways.
The bride'sfamily were scheming to prevent a wedding.
Their scheming ultimately led to Coriolanus' banishment from Rome.
I was kidding myself; why would a sweet girl like Andrea want to be with a rebellious, scheming character like me?
The innocent corruption of scheming, out-of-control teens will always be more compelling than all those witty rewrites of the lives of jaded middle-aged dilettantes who really have no excuse to be so soulless.
He was, and remains, a contentious figure, accused by some of scheming and power-mongering.
Lucky Kunene is a carjacker-turned-property-racketeer who exploits poor black tenants in Jo'burg's shabby housing blocks, scheming rent-strikes and squat-takeovers against nervy white landlords. Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema
Where business is concerned, the charming, scheming Antonescu is a poster boy for amorality. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Man and Boy, Orson's Shadow
Right, it wasn't the Democrats who keep us from drilling offshore, in ANWR and the shale, it was those eeeeevil Republican pit bulls in Washington scheming to keep oil prices high, while sending Karl Rove out to secretly underinflate everyone's tires and lull them into believing they won't need a tune-up for at least 100,000 miles or so. Damnum absque injuria

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