“Popular and familiar love songs underscore every bumbling error or ill-conceived machination of the lovers' various courtships.”

“Due to some unforeseen plot machination, your character is washed up on the beach of a tropical desert island.”

“You had to admire the sheer pluck of the woman, the marvellously unMachiavellian lack of machination or anything you might call strategy.”

“The picture could be a physiognomical paradigm of a conspirator, a machinator, a schemer, a Machiavel.”

“You stand there silent, but you are the machinator of this plot.”

“The mayor's young son is murdered, and even he, a persistent optimist and crafty political machinator, must confront the cynical disillusion that is the spirit of the times.”

“He reveals details of boardroom machinations and backstairs skirmishes which only a fly on the wall could have witnessed.”

“But Fontaine was also slowed by the gridlock created by internal Liberal Party machinations.”

“The convolutions eventually snare the corrupt powerbrokers in their own deceptive political machinations.”