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Example sentences for: scheming

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She thinks of herself as Portia, the clever lawyer in The Merchant of Venice . Republicans think of her as a scheming Lady Macbeth.
Immediately the president and his Oval Office confidants began scheming to protect what they portentously referred to as "the presidency" (meaning themselves) from revelations that would surely issue from any serious investigation of their administration: where they got their milk money, how they used the IRS as their own Internal Retribution Service, why they put Ted Kennedy on 24-hour surveillance, how they forged diplomatic cables to frame Jack Kennedy in a political assassination.
A mere half-hour’s drive from Bologna on the autostrada takes you to this stronghold of the high-living d’Este dukes — archetypal scheming, murderous, lovable Renaissance villains who ruled from 1200 to 1600.
The characters respond tellingly, either gloating, helping, or scheming.
There's a selfish scientist (Tom Skerritt) trying to take credit for her discoveries, and a national security adviser (James Woods) scheming to be elected to Congress.