You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble.
Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.
If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the expanding heteronomy, even if only as thought's powerless attempt to remain its own master and to convict of untruth, by their own criteria, both a fabricated mythology and a conniving, resigned acquiescence.
Here I had a wonderful man who cared for me and I was screwing around with a self-absorbed, conniving monster who'd betrayed me in the worst possible way.
If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.
Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.
