Example sentences for: machiavelli

How can you use “machiavelli” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Galileo, Machiavelli, Ghiberti, and composer Rossini are all buried there.

  • If they're tired of feeling inferior to the latter task, I highly recommend my new book, What Would Machiavelli Do?

  • Just as McCartney started rumors of his death by appearing on the Abbey Road cover without shoes and on Sergeant Pepper wearing an armband marked "OPD" (alleged to mean Officially Pronounced Dead), so did 2Pac, on his new album, slyly adopt the name "Makaveli"--like Machiavelli, who, according to 2Pac's rapping confrere Chuck D, faked his own death to fool his enemies--and pose on the cover in a crucifixion pose, suggesting he intended a resurrection.

  • But even more, it proved, with the humanism of Leonardo and Michelangelo and the political realism of Machiavelli, to be the birth of our modern age.

  • In his masterpiece, The Prince , Niccolò Machiavelli offers a rather pessimistic view on human nature, in which ‘love is held by a chain of obligation which, since men are bad, is broken at every opportunity for personal gain’.


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