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A French (translated into English) humorous image of a cabal. A cabal is a group of people who are united in some close design, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, a state, or another community, often by intrigue and usually without the knowledge of those who are outside their group.
Halloween, intrigue is used in haunted attractions such as haunted houses and halloween theme park rides; Roasting, comedic jabs and parodies or satire that features intrigue building; All pages with titles containing Intrigue; Intriguer, a 2010 album by Crowded House
Cover to the Italian comedy of intrigue, The Deceived Ones (Italian: Gl'ingannati, 1531). The comedy of intrigue, also known as the comedy of situation, is a genre of comedy in which dramatic action is prioritised over the development of character, complicated strategems and conspiracies drive the plot, and farcical humour and contrived or ridiculous dramatic situations are often employed. [1]
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further." [ 1 ] [ 2 ] While used by the CIA and other intelligence organizations, the tactic has become popularized in the corporate and political spheres.
M'Adam is the owner of Red Wull, a huge, violent dog who herds his sheep by brute force. The other dog is Bob, son of Battle. He herds sheep by finesse and persuasion. His master is James Moore, Master of Kenmuir, who acts as surrogate father to David. David and Moore's daughter Maggie become romantically intrigued by each other.
Pegging is where a person with a vulva wears a strap-on to have sex with a partner—it’s a play on power dynamics and gender roles that some people are intrigued by.
The term was first coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic W. H. Myers, [5] a founder of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), [6] and has remained more popular than the earlier expression thought-transference. [6] [7] Telepathy experiments have historically been criticized for a lack of proper controls and repeatability.