"Wire-pulling" Quotes from Famous Books
... is a political novel as realistic as Anthony Trollope's, but more incisive in tone and wider in scope. Instead of confining her energies to the doings and conversations of one set of people, Miss Laffan looks at politics as they are mirrored in society, sketching not alone the wire-pulling and petty diplomacies, but phases of life resulting therefrom. In Hogan, M.P., we have a vivid coup d'oeil of Dublin society, with its sharp, irregular boundaries, its sects and sets, its manner of comporting and amusing itself. The field is a wide one, but Miss ... — Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various
... cutaway coat from wardrobe]. Well, one would never get anywhere without a little wire-pulling, you know. Here's your ... — Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter • August Strindberg |