In 2008, she was featured in play magazine's " Girls of Gaming " as one of the staff's top girls of PC gaming, placing tenth on their list, The Boston Phoenix ranked the number one greatest boss in video game history, while GamePro ranked her as the 12th " most diabolical " video game villain of all time, calling her " far more crafty than Skynet or the machines of the Matrix, simply because she's omnipresent and constantly taunting " and adding, " Simply put: you'll want to kill SHODAN more than you've ever wanted to kill any videogame enemy.

Whereas there was crafty artificial intelligence in the arrow-shaped crafts in Targ making the game very difficult, the enemy in Spectar is much easier to defeat, making Spectar a much easier game to play than its ancestor.

Until this episode Santa Anna's reputation had been that of a cunning and crafty man, rather than a cruel one ... together with the fall of the Alamo, branded both Santa Anna and the Mexican people with a reputation for cruelty and aroused the fury of the people of Texas, the United States, and even Great Britain and France, thus considerably promoting the success of the Texas Revolution.

* To Pull a Stroke ( Fast One ), term used in Ireland to describe " pulling a fast one ", i. e. to deceive people, often by elaborate and crafty means, for personal gain

He made unambiguous side glosses on his text, such as " Mark the apish pageants of these popelings " and " This answer smelleth of forging and crafty packing ", as Foxe's age was one of strong language as well as of cruel deeds.

Write, let no one hold you back, let nothing stop you: not man ; not the imbecilic capitalist machinery, in which the publishing houses are the crafty, obsequious relayers of imperatives handed down by an economy that works against us and off our backs ; not yourself.

Drizzt Do ' Urden: There is no one in all the world, I believe, more crafty and more ingenious than Jarlaxle of Bregan D ' aerthe, the consummate opportunist, a wily leader who can craft a kingdom out of the dung of rothe.

To call someone crafty is to identify them as clever and cunning In Greek, one would say to “ spin ” a plot.

The Gauls start chasing the boars, but one boar, however, is crafty and leads them straight into a Roman patrol.

Each story had the same fixed characters: the lovers, father, servants ( one being crafty and the other stupid ), etc.

Panurge ( from Ancient Greek Πανοῦργος / Panoûrgos meaning " He who makes everything ") is one of the principal characters in the Pantagruel ( especially the third and fourth books ) of Rabelais, an exceedingly crafty knave, a libertine, and a coward.

# The Flying Stingaree ( 1963 ) Intrigued by mysterious UFO sightings, Rick and Scotty battle against a group of crafty spies.

Michael's romantic adventures are enacted against the background of an era of gaudy decadence, crafty intrigue, and exotic, colorful pageantry.

As before, she is created by Hephaestus, but now more gods contribute to her completion ( 63 – 82 ): Athena taught her needlework and weaving ( 63 – 4 ); Aphrodite " shed grace upon her head and cruel longing and cares that weary the limbs " ( 65 – 6 ); Hermes gave her " a shameful mind and deceitful nature " ( 67 – 8 ); Hermes also gave her the power of speech, putting in her " lies and crafty words " ( 77 – 80 ) ; Athena then clothed her ( 72 ); next she, Persuasion and the Charites adorned her with necklaces and other finery ( 72 – 4 ); the Horae adorned her with a garland crown ( 75 ).

In film, television or video production, craft service or crafty refers to the department which provides food service and beverages to the other departments or crafts.

It has been necessary to adopt what other countries would probably be thought harsh measures, for the Filipino is tricky and crafty and has to be fought in his own way.

As a salesman for the Swedish inventor Thorsten Nordenfelt, Zaharoff was known for his crafty, aggressive and corrupt business tactics.

He had some aptitude for diplomacy, and his intuitive insight and perception of character sometimes enabled him to outwit the crafty politicians who surrounded him.

Sisyphus, who was commonly known for being a crafty king that killed guests, seduced his niece and stole his brothers ' throne ( Hyginus 50-99 ) and was banished to the throes of Tartarus by the gods.

Apter also reports that Smith put in minimal effort at Notre Dame, sufficient to gain pass marks, and quotes Smith as saying: " If you were crafty enough you could convince the teachers you were special: I did virtually nothing for three years.

In 2007, the Beijing Speaks Foreign Languages Program ( BSFLP ) reported they had, " worked out 4, 624 pieces of standard English translations to substitute the Chinglish ones on signs around the city ", for instance, " Be careful, road slippery " instead of " To take notice of safe: The slippery are very crafty.

But unfortunately for Cao Zhang, the crafty Cao Pi had secretly placed all the containers away beforehand, so Empress Dowager Bian failed to get the water ; Cao Zhang then died as a result.

The simplicity and innocence of his character, as chronicled by his contemporary John of Ephesus, disqualified him for rule, and put him in the power of " crafty and designing men about him, who turned him every way they chose, and used him as a means of establishing their own powers.

The wise and crafty Ulysses informs him that the army's troubles spring from a lack of respect for authority, brought about by the behavior of Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior, who refuses to fight and instead spends his time sitting in his tent with his comrade ( and lover ) Patroclus, mocking his superiors.

The whites believe she was psychologically broken by her brothers ' deaths, but the slaves believe that she is a crafty woman who is responsible for Mealy Mouth's death.

But unfortunately for Cao Zhang, the crafty Cao Pi had secretly placed all the containers away beforehand and so Bian Hou failed to get the water ; Cao Zhang then died at the hands of his own brother.

It was far from all that the crafty Pasha had wanted, but it was what he had to live with, for even in the ending days of the Syrian War, Muhammad was starting to show his age, and would find that he did not have much time left in the world.

Relative political stability followed as the initially oppressive yet highly politically crafty Balaguer would go on to dominate Dominican politics for twenty-two years.

Lyons was at his crafty best in 1930, when he posted a 22 – 15 record and A. L .- leading totals of 29 complete games and 297⅔ innings for a team that finished 62 – 92.

He is a crafty, cynical, sometimes bitter type, hates the Soviet government, often too smart for his own good and is sometimes portrayed as an otkaznik ( refusenik ): someone who is refused permission to emigrate to Israel.

In a decision relating to the 1982 Brazilian Grand Prix, Nelson Piquet and Keke Rosberg were excluded for their cars ' crafty use of water tanks as ballast to keep them under the weight limit during race conditions.

He also won acclaim for his roles as Brother Benedict in Lamb ( 1986 ), Grandfather George in John Boorman's Hope and Glory ( 1987 ) ( for which he received a second " Best Supporting Actor " BAFTA nomination ), the elder Robert de Brus in Braveheart ( 1995 ), and as the touchingly crafty villager in Waking Ned Devine ( 1998 ).

These include, for example, a reliance on proverbs or condensed wisdom for making decisions, epic poetry, and stylized culture heroes ( wise Nestor, crafty Odysseus ).

On March 28, 2007, he was suspended for the rest of the CBA championship series for his comments in an interview with the Albany Times Union newspaper, in which he stated that Jews were " crafty ( because ) they are hated worldwide.

Although he managed to amass great wealth, he also made many enemies, and was described by contemporaries as crafty and Quarrelsome.

There is also general agreement that he was handsome, well spoken and intelligent, but some see these attributes as a veneer, hiding a dishonest, cruel, crafty, violent nature.

He also bought crafty Brazilian Juninho from Middlesbrough for ₤ 12 million.

He also wrote that " Fijians generally perceive Indians as mean and stingy, crafty and demanding to the extent of being considered greedy, inconsiderate and grasping, uncooperative, egotistic, and calculating.

Although the Athlon was multiplier locked, crafty enthusiasts eventually discovered that a connector on the PCB of the cartridge could control the multiplier.

Soon her enemy and cousin, the " crafty and ambitious " Charles of Durazzo, representing the Sicilian Angevin line, was made sovereign over the Kingdom of Naples on 1 June 1381 ), and was crowned by Urban.

After some weeks ' negotiation, in the course of which the firmness and moderation of " The Great Commoner ", as he had come to be called, contrasted favourably with the characteristic tortuosities of the crafty peer, matters were settled on such a basis that, while Newcastle was the nominal, Pitt was the virtual head of the government.

According to Pierre-Louis Duchartre, his traditional temperament is to be mean, vicious, and crafty and his main mode of defense is to pretend to be too stupid to know what's going on.

Malenkov's ambitions and crafty politics bore fruit upon Stalin's death on 5 March 1953.

Not to be outdone, Harriman now came up with a crafty plan: Buy a controlling interest in the Northern Pacific and use its power on the Burlington to place friendly directors upon its board.

" Through it all, the platoon was generally loyal to Bilko despite their wariness of his crafty nature, and would depend on him to get them out of any military misfortune or outside mistreatment.

These most crafty enemies have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on her most sacred possessions ().

More critical historians during the prohibition era, like Logan Eseray, described Jennings as a crafty and self-promoting politician and focused on his alcoholism.

During the prohibition era in the early twentieth century, historians like Logan Eseray and Arthur Blythe wrote more critical works of Jennings, describing him as a “ crafty and self promoting politician ,” and dismissed his importance and impact on Indiana, saying the legislature and its leading men set the tone of the era.

An educated scholar as well as crafty politician, now retired in Mexico and writing from there on occasion

The narrator offers to excuse their crafty argumentation as accidental stupidity, but the nuns ' base behavior as they fail to share food with the courtesan raises a question mark if not necessarily on their story then on their altruistic motivation.

His best campaigns in Boston were spent on Boston's top power unit with His longtime partner Real Chevrefils and smooth, crafty Centre Don McKenney.

But only if the player can find the ten treasures ( props from Buddy's films ) that crafty Aunt Hildegarde has hidden on the grounds, that is.

Roderick alluded to the fact that Salvador was intelligent in a crafty way, after witnessing him making an attempt to cheat while betting on a robotic gladiator.

Seldon returned in 1992 with a victory over sometimes-dangerous Jesse Ferguson whom he stopped on an eye injury, but was dropped and outpointed the same year by crafty ex-champ Tony Tubbs.

A crafty businessman, Fuld sued companies whose talking boards infringed on his trademarks or patents.