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Example sentences for: intrigue

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In 1846, during the course of an unsavory palace intrigue involving an unsolved murder, meddling by the queen, and the massacre of some 100 high-ranking court figures who had been lured to a palace courtyard, the instigator of these events became the power behind the throne.
Royal wedding intrigue dominates, with the Globe raising the possibility that Prince Edward may be gay--perhaps forgetting that only a week earlier, it had him confessing that he was actually in love with his late sister-in-law, Princess Diana.
All this political intrigue, even though, as the papers report, about three-quarters of all Israelis approve of the accord.
(The Washington Post , which usually plays up Capitol Hill intrigue, reefers this story.)
There is nary a mention in this thick book of any of the leading "alternative" weeklies, which are often stuffed with material that one might expect to intrigue Rosen.