Intrigue

human activity reliant on cunning for effectiveness

Intrigue is defined a complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem. It also refers the plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters. Also refers to clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison.

Mary Nickson:Don't be so condescending. Our village life is a hotbed of intrigue and drama.

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Shana Alexander:Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.
 
Randolph Bourne:Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.
  • What I would love is a crossover between 'Royal Pains' and 'Burn Notice,' that we could be involved in some sort of gun play intrigue. I would really love that because we have no guns. We have nowhere near enough explosions and guns on the set.
 
Black Kettle: We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other.
  • People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.
 
Steve Martin:There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.
  • The semiology and phenomenology of hashtaggery intrigues me. From what I understand, it all began very simply: on Twitter, hashtags - those little checkerboard marks that look like this # - were used to mark phrases or names, in order to make it easier to search for them among the zillions and zillions of tweets.
  • My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.
 
William Makepeace Thackeray:To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
  • Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.
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