Donald Trump’s criminal trial is nearing its denouement at last. The prosecutors’ star witness is due on the stand imminently, at which point their tale of the former president’s duplicity will start to cohere: https://econ.trib.al/9bkqIfF
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How Xi Jinping Made His Power Grab: With Stealth, Speed and Guile
Prosecution QC Sasha Wass: "He targeted fans who were mesmerised by his fame and talents. He was a children's entertainer and they were beguiled by his singing and painting. And the penalty of their admiration was to suffer sexual assault"
By CHRIS BUCKLEY
Mr. Xi basked in applause at the opening of China’s parliament. But his plan to end presidential term limits showed his mastery of back-room politics.
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin died in St. Petersburg, Russia on this day in 1837 (aged 37). Pushkin was fatally wounded in a duel with his brother-in-law, and died two days later.
"What good is my name to you?
It will die, like the melancholy sound
Of a wave breaking on a distant shore,
Like night’s noises in the dense forest.
On the album page
It will leave a dead trace, like
The pattern of an epitaph on a tombstone
In an unknown language.
What good is it? Long forgotten
In new, stormy emotions,
It will not evoke in your soul
Peaceful, tender memories.
But... on a day of grief, in the silence
Pronounce it, pining;
Say: someone remembers me,
There is in the world a heart, in which I live..."
— Alexander Pushkin (5 January 1830) as quoted in PUSHKIN: A BIOGRAPHY by T. J. Binyon
It will die, like the melancholy sound
Of a wave breaking on a distant shore,
Like night’s noises in the dense forest.
On the album page
It will leave a dead trace, like
The pattern of an epitaph on a tombstone
In an unknown language.
What good is it? Long forgotten
In new, stormy emotions,
It will not evoke in your soul
Peaceful, tender memories.
But... on a day of grief, in the silence
Pronounce it, pining;
Say: someone remembers me,
There is in the world a heart, in which I live..."
— Alexander Pushkin (5 January 1830) as quoted in PUSHKIN: A BIOGRAPHY by T. J. Binyon
In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry–including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin–but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allure–fiery, restless, extravagant, a prodigal gambler and inveterate seducer of women. Having forged a dazzling, controversial career that cost him the enmity of one tsar and won him the patronage of another, he died at the age of thirty-eight, following a duel with a French officer who was paying unscrupulous attention to his wife.
In his magnificent, prizewinning Pushkin, T. J. Binyon lifts the veil of the iconic poet’s myth to reveal the complexity and pathos of his life while brilliantly evoking Russia in all its nineteenth-century splendor. Combining exemplary scholarship with the pace and detail of a great novel, Pushkin elevates biography to a work of art. READ an excerpt here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/13660/pushkin-by-t-j-…/
In his magnificent, prizewinning Pushkin, T. J. Binyon lifts the veil of the iconic poet’s myth to reveal the complexity and pathos of his life while brilliantly evoking Russia in all its nineteenth-century splendor. Combining exemplary scholarship with the pace and detail of a great novel, Pushkin elevates biography to a work of art. READ an excerpt here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/13660/pushkin-by-t-j-…/
Prosecution QC Sasha Wass: "He targeted fans who were mesmerised by his fame and talents. He was a children's entertainer and they were beguiled by his singing and painting. And the penalty of their admiration was to suffer sexual assault"
Armstrong’s Wall of Silence Fell Rider by Rider
By JULIET MACUR
Lance Armstrong kept the dark side of his athletic success quiet by
using guile and arm-twisting tactics on those who might cross him,
investigators and cyclists said.
A Genius for Deception
How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars
cunning
adj.
- Marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness.
- Executed with or exhibiting ingenuity.
- Delicately pleasing; pretty or cute: a cunning pet.
- Skill in deception; guile.
- Skill or adeptness in execution or performance; dexterity.
[名][U]
1 こうかつさ, ずるさ, 悪賢さ. ▼日本語の「カンニング」はcheating.
2 ((古))熟練, 手ぎわのよさ, 器用さ.
━━[形]（しばしば〜・er, 〜・est）
1 悪賢い, ずるい, こうかつな(crafty)
(as) cunning as a fox
キツネのようにずるい.
キツネのようにずるい.
2 〈装置などが〉巧妙な, 精巧な.
3 ((米古風))〈子供・小動物などが〉かわいらしい, 愛くるしい；〈物が〉しゃれた, 気のきいた.
[Middle English, present participle of connen, to know, from Old English cunnan.]
cunningly cun'ning·ly adv.cunningness cun'ning·ness n.
The Guangdong model
One Chinese province adopts a beguilingly open approach—up to a point
duplicity
Line breaks: du|pli¦city
Pronunciation: /djuːˈplɪsɪti , djʊ-/
NOUN
Origin
late Middle English: from Old French duplicite or late Latin duplicitas, from Latin duplic- 'twofold' (see duplex).
sedulous
(SEJ-uh-luhs)
adjective: Involving great care, effort, and persistence.
Etymology
From Latin se (without) + dolus (trickery, guile). Ultimately from the Indo-European root del- (to count or recount) that is also the source of tell, tale, talk, and Dutch taal (speech, language).
Usage
"Elizabeth Bishop was sedulous, pernickety, quietly determined; she would work on poems for years." — Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell; The Economist (London, UK); Nov 20, 2008. (© Wordsmith.org)
guile
n.
- Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit.
- Obsolete. A trick or stratagem.
To beguile; deceive.
- [gáil]
[名][U]((形式))腹黒い［陰険な］ずるさ, 悪知恵, 二心, 裏切り；((古))策略.
LACK OF GUILE
\Guile\, n. [OE. guile, gile, OF. guile; of German origin,
and the same word as E. wile. See {Wile}.]
Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit;
treachery.
Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. --John
i. 47.
約 翰 福 音 John 1:47 [hb5] 耶穌看見拿但業來、就指著他說、看哪、這是個真以色列人、他心裏是沒有詭詐的。
[kjv] Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
[bbe] Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel
To wage by force or guile eternal war. --Milton
beguile
(bĭ-gīl')
tr.v., -guiled, -guil·ing, -guiles.
- To deceive by guile; delude. See synonyms at deceive.
- To take away from by or as if by guile; cheat: a disease that has beguiled me of strength.
- To distract the attention of; divert: "to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming" (Abraham Lincoln).
- To pass (time) pleasantly.
- To amuse or charm; delight. See synonyms at charm.
beguiler be·guil'er n.
beguilingly be·guil'ing·ly adv.
ADJECTIVE
- Charming or enchanting, often in a deceptive way.‘a beguiling mixture of English, French and Italian’
ingénues
(ăN'zhə-nū')
also n.
- A naive, innocent girl or young woman.
- The role of an ingénue in a dramatic production.
- An actress playing such a role.
[French, feminine of ingénu, guileless, from Latin ingenuus, ingenuous. See ingenuous.]
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