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Cixi has been blamed ever since for her profligate and selfish ways, combined with her Machiavellian rise from concubine to Empress, popularly held to be the cause of China’s weakness and the fall of the last dynasty.
A profile peels away George Pataki's Gomer Pyle exterior to reveal the New York governor's Machiavellian core.
The anti-hero of the movie is Kenneth Duberstein (Mandy Patinkin), the Machiavellian strategist who shepherded the candidate through the nomination process.
Is Henry the archetype of the Hero, Machiavellian or otherwise?
At best, these interactions enrich our society; at worst, they become ‘Machiavellian’ and exploitative.