Machiavellian

How To Use Machiavellian In A Sentence

• This paragraph is a paradigm of legal Machiavellianism – and is pretty weak legal reasoning for an academic. The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the tax power infinite?
• Wolcott is referring to Niccolò Machiavelli, a philosopher and writer in the Italian Renaissance, who inspired the political term Machiavellianism, defined as "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct," according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Azcentral.com | news
• Even so, events could turn against Republican Machiavellians inasmuch as their obduracy is the best thing Democrats have going for them now that Obamamania has all but disappeared. Andrew Levine: Republican Machiavellians: Scourge of Democrats -- For Tea Partiers, Not So Much
• Scolese would be Griffin re-dux: the self-absorbed "I'm the smartest guy in the room" technical type, except more Machiavellian with less hard technical skill. Who's the boss? For now Christopher Scolese, Sort of - NASA Watch
• Nancy Reagan was reviled as a Hollywood airhead until she was reviled as a secret Machiavellian.
• Whereas the former was a Machiavellian autocrat with a fascist background, the latter is a straightforward, consensus-driven and politically moderate.
• By doing all of this, the Grotian school is supposed to negotiate a middle way between bare-knuckled "Machiavellianism" and excessively idealistic Hugo Grotius
• According to the Oxford English Dictionary 'Machiavellianism' is "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct", but as the quote above from 'The Prince' shows Machiavelli was also a pragmatic realist. ZDNet News - News Page One
• I don't know where he's weblogging now, but the Machiavellian Lawyer used to appear here from time to time. The Legal Underground:
• I made no attempt to argue because by that time my thoughts had returned to Lyle's Machiavellian machinations. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS