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  • I wonder what you'll name my sin: Complicity?†   (source)
  • Kiowa, after all, had been a close friend, and for years I've avoided thinking about his death and my own complicity in it.†   (source)
  • He had held back, and by not saying what he knew—that she was his daughter—made her complicit in his silence.†   (source)
  • His lordship emerged to meet him and the two gentlemen appeared to exchange complicit glances before disappearing together into the drawing room.†   (source)
  • The entire Hill is complicit in our embrace.†   (source)
  • Dismayed by her own audacity, she seized Aunt Escolastica's arm so she would not fall, and her aunt felt the icy perspiration on her hand through the lace mitt, and she comforted her with an imperceptible sign of unconditional complicity.†   (source)
  • In exploring the social and domestic aggression that could cause a child to literally fall apart, I mounted a series of rejections, some routine, some exceptional, some monstrous, all the while trying hard to avoid complicity in the demonization process Pecola was subjected to.†   (source)
  • And then the eyes of the men sought his, inviting a wet complicity.†   (source)
  • The indictment charged eleven of us with complicity in over two hundred acts of sabotage aimed at facilitatingviolent revolution and an armed invasion of the country.†   (source)
  • Yet for the first time I really understood how my choices made me complicit in their suffering.†   (source)
  • But also sinfully complicit with some process she only half understood, the force in the world, the array of systems that displaces religious faith with paranoia.†   (source)
  • The penalty for staying behind was a brutal beating for complicity in the escape.†   (source)
  • The man had been innocent of any complicity in attempting to create a nuclear holocaust.†   (source)
  • He did not comprehend what I had been through, or how it could have happened without some complicity on my part.†   (source)
  • He was flushed and sweating and looked for all the world to the awaiting constable as if he was complicit in the murder of the man he had come to see.†   (source)
  • The narrow, complicit smile — as if he knew where all this might one day lead.†   (source)
  • She was waiting for him seated in her chair, holding Miguel's hand, the two of them deep in a mutual complicity from which, as always, Nicolas felt excluded.†   (source)
  • The fact that she'd been complicit in condemning Justin only made her anger toward the deception that blinded them more acute.†   (source)
  • We told ourselves it was none of our business, and now we were lying because we were complicit in a child's death.†   (source)
  • It was the solution that would totally distance the Soviet government from any involvement or complicity with either the Jackal or Medusa's Ogilvie should such distance be necessary in the eyes of the civilized world.†   (source)
  • If I glanced toward her, she'd smile complicitly, enjoying this game of ours.†   (source)
  • Hizdahr would be pleased to blame him for the locusts, all the same …. but the king may yet have need of the Stormcrows, and he will lose them if he appears complicit in the death of their captain.†   (source)
  • Among them was that Marilyn Monroe had had an affair with Bobby Kennedy as well as JFK, and that Bobby was complicit in Monroe's death.†   (source)
  • The movie industry today is more heavily promoted than ever, in mutual complicity with TV, once Hollywood's near-death experience but now its biggest fan club.†   (source)
  • Tradd said, looking at each one of us, sensing our complicity and his exclusion.†   (source)
  • Portugal and Brazil had no treaty with the British or United States regarding slave trade, and Cuba, with the winking complicity of the Spanish government, continued importing Africans.†   (source)
  • Perhaps they were simply too frightened, but Max feared there was a sinister complicity at work.†   (source)
  • Sometimes you glance toward a woman and she glances toward you and there is this subtle recognition, this moment of complicity, and anything might happen after that.†   (source)
  • Several months had passed since Gabriel was to have assumed control of the Office, and even the prime minister, who had been complicit in the delay, was losing patience.†   (source)
  • They settled on this complicity: they would not heal their rift — their mysterious rift — but bridge it, with manners.†   (source)
  • It seemed hardly to matter, and I was sick of the argument, sick of the fanaticism I was unable to counter or find shelter from, sick with the vision of Bobby Weed and—despite feeling no complicity whatever in the Georgia abomination—suddenly sick with a past and a place and a heritage I could neither believe in nor fathom.†   (source)
  • Only much later, at the trial, when he was charged with complicity in the strike but not with inciting it, did he learn the truth.†   (source)
  • The newly returned scientist was unmasked as an imposter, accused of complicity in the crime, and handed over to the police.†   (source)
  • Hearing him tell me of his suffering--and my complicity--is the single most humiliating experience of my life.   (source)
    complicity = act of helping in a crime or offense
  • Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity.†   (source)
  • She was not the only widow made to feel as if she had been complicit in an unspeakable crime.†   (source)
  • Call it oppression, complicity, stupefaction, call it what you like, it doesn't matter.†   (source)
  • Appreciative eyes that communicated some complicity she was excluded from.†   (source)
  • She puts an arm around me, gives me a little squeeze, a squeeze of complicity, of instruction.†   (source)
  • Anyone who left behind that aura of fun and complicity?†   (source)
  • I felt complicit with some unspoken function of the corporation.†   (source)
  • He was complicit with Teeleh; he accepted that now.†   (source)
  • Justin is complicit in the plot against the Forest People!†   (source)
  • A woman who had thumbed her nose at the tribes and was complicit in the hunt for them.†   (source)
  • You could be considered complicit.†   (source)
  • I've heard the long sigh go up, from around me, the sigh like air coming out of an air mattress, I've seen Aunt Lydia place her hand over the mike, to stifle the other sounds coming from behind her, I've leaned forward to touch the rope in front of me, in time with the others, both hands on it, the rope hairy, sticky with tar in the hot sun, then placed my hand on my heart to show my unity with the Salvagers and my consent, and my complicity in the death of this woman.†   (source)
  • Complicit?†   (source)
  • Not even Dr. Juvenal Urbino, with all his prestige, could persuade them to move it where it would not disturb anyone, until his proven complicity with Divine Providence interceded on his behalf.†   (source)
  • Certain that such an intricate relationship was understandable only with the complicity of his sister, he did not grant her the grace of an excuse or the right of appeal, but shipped her on the schooner to San Juan de la Cienaga.†   (source)
  • Everyone is complicit.†   (source)
  • For despite her austere conduct and penitential habit, Aunt Escolastica had an instinct for life and a vocation for complicity, which were her greatest virtues, and the mere idea that a man was interested in her niece awakened an irresistible emotion in her.†   (source)
  • At midnight he put on his Sunday suit and went to stand alone under Fermina Daza's balcony to play the love waltz he had composed for her, which was known only to the two of them and which for three years had been the emblem of their frustrated complicity.†   (source)
  • To his good fortune, every step he climbed in the R.C.C. brought new privileges, above all secret privileges, and one of the most practical was the possibility of using the offices at night, or on Sundays or holidays, with the complicity of the watchmen.†   (source)
  • There was speculation on the details of their relationship, the frequency of their meetings and how they were arranged, and the complicity of her husband, who was given to excesses of sodomy with the blacks on his sugar plantation.†   (source)
  • The only relatives who knew about it were Jose Arcadio and Rebeca, with whom Arcadio maintained close relations at that time, based not so much on kinship as on complicity.†   (source)
  • This eyewitness information has confirmed not only that Booth is at the heart of the plan but that Mary Surratt is complicit.†   (source)
  • They want answers, and you may be the only person other than those complicit in this plot to give them answers.†   (source)
  • It'll blow apart, as Lin Biao's conspiracy against Mao Zedong blew apart in seventy-two; and when it does, Peking will blame American and Taiwanese money in complicity with the British — as well as the silent acquiescence of the world's leading financial institutions.†   (source)
  • He even accused Father Antonio Isabel of complicity for having marked his sons with indelible ashes so that they could be identified by their enemies.†   (source)
  • "Mama, you have to help Amanda," Jaime pleaded, with the certainty that came from their complicity in matters such as this.†   (source)
  • I want everyone in this room to know that I deplore all of your actions tonight and I refuse to share complicity in them.†   (source)
  • I am with the Ministry of Finance, of course, and having admitted that, I absolve myself of complicity for being clear about my status.†   (source)
  • She walked away and another, older and plainer girl, who was also, however, very carefully dressed and made-up, came over to Cass, wearing a very different smile: a bawdy, amused smile, full of complicity and contempt.†   (source)
  • But as she turned around, Blanca could have sworn she caught a wink of complicity between her husband and the cook.†   (source)
  • The only affection that prevailed against time and the war was that which he had felt for his brother Jose Arcadio when they both were children, and it was not based on love but on complicity.†   (source)
  • Jack was greatly given to robust jokes that Esther hated and Klara kind of liked, the kind of joke you're supposed to like in spite of yourself, outdated stones with stupid stereotypes and a range of dialects, but sly in the manner in which they welcome the listener's complicity—Jack told jokes in which nothing ever changes.†   (source)
  • So that when she noticed the complicity between father and daughter the only promise she extracted from Aureliano Segundo was that he would never take Meme to Petra Cotes's house.†   (source)
  • Chelise is complicit, I tell you!†   (source)
  • They share a complicit grin.†   (source)
  • They embraced with the desperation of a parting and slipped down to their refuge suffocating with complicity.†   (source)
  • Alba too remembered the complicity of those trips to the country holding on to her grandfather s hand, the jaunts behind him in the saddle of his horse, the sunsets in the vast pastures, the long nights beside the living-room fireplace telling ghost stories and drawing pictures.†   (source)
  • Although they seemed to ignore what both of them knew and what each one knew that the other knew, from that night on they were yoked together in an inviolable complicity.†   (source)
  • She went by me like a gust of wind in her horrible long cotton skirts, with her incredible green hair like Rosa's, busy in all sorts of mysterious chores that she carried out with the complicity of her mother.†   (source)
  • So that Aureliano and Gabriel were linked by a kind of complicity based on real facts that no one believed in, and which had affected their lives to the point that both of them found themselves off course in the tide of a world that had ended and of which only the nostalgia remained.†   (source)
  • Aureliano tried to relive the times when they slept in the same room, tried to revive the complicity of childhood, but Jose Arcadio had forgotten about it, because life at sea had saturated his memory with too many things to remember.†   (source)
  • She was so sure of herself, so anchored in her solitude that Aureliano Segundo had the impression that no link existed between them anymore, that the comradeship and the complicity were nothing but an illusion of the past.†   (source)
  • They made love twice a week for more than three months, protected by the innocent complicity of Aureliano Segundo, who believed without suspicion in his daughter's alibis simply in order to set her free from her mother's rigidity.†   (source)
  • Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.†   (source)
  • She was able to see the name of the Estimable Senorita Rebeca Buendia, written in the same methodical hand, with the same green ink, and the same delicacy of words with which the instructions for the operation of the pianola were written, and she folded the letter with the tips of her fingers and hid it in her bosom, looking at Amparo Moscote with an expression of endless and unconditional gratitude and a silent promise of complicity unto death.†   (source)
  • It was, perhaps, like feeling that the most dangerouspart of a dangerous journey had been passed and that now, even if death should come, it would come with honor and without the complicity of their countrymen.†   (source)
  • A tired smile puckered her eyes and loosened her lips, but in answer to his sneering glance she gave him a sly wink of complicity.†   (source)
  • And she was still repressing the very meaning of Vernichtung until that moment in the drizzling dusk of Sunday when, hurrying with the bundle of typescript to meet her father and her husband, Casimir, in a café on the Market Square, she was smitten with horror at what he had said and written and what she, in her complicity, had done.†   (source)
  • He and Mr. Elsing are under arrest for complicity in a Klan raid at Shantytown tonight.†   (source)
  • Yes, 'accomplice' is the word that fits, and doesn't he relish his complicity!†   (source)
  • It was proved afterwards that she had been absolutely innocent of any complicity in the crime.†   (source)
  • But how could one explain his complicity?†   (source)
  • I must say also that he had no embarrassment because of me; he assumed my complicity and was teaching and leading me.†   (source)
  • Whilst probability in some cases is against certain people being implicated, yet we cannot say definitely that any one person can be considered as cleared of all complicity.†   (source)
  • He has dealt profoundly with the disaster that has overwhelmed our native tribal society, and has argued cogently the case of our own complicity in this disaster.†   (source)
  • The sick man's lips parted in a curious smile, and a look of humorous complicity flickered across the haggard face.†   (source)
  • Unless we are to assume the complicity of the real conductor, there was only one time when he could have done so-during the time the train stopped at Vincovci.†   (source)
  • Was I, too, not visited with consequences of the original offence in which I had no complicity?†   (source)
  • He had a motive for securing your innocent complicity.†   (source)
  • And also exactly what would be complained of in all the literature which is great enough and old enough to have attained canonical rank, officially or unofficially, were it not that books are admitted to the canon by a compact which confesses their greatness in consideration of abrogating their meaning; so that the reverend rector can agree with the prophet Micah as to his inspired style without being committed to any complicity in Micah's furiously Radical opinions.†   (source)
  • She felt complicity—that's neither here nor there, except as we want to revalue her ultimate stability and strength of character.†   (source)
  • It seemed to Madeline that Don Carlos denied knowledge of the boxes of contraband goods, then knowledge of their real contents, then knowledge of their destination, and, finally, everything except that they were there in sight, damning witnesses to somebody's complicity in the breaking of neutrality laws.†   (source)
  • …which went far beyond mere playfulness, and almost touched the border-line of roguery; he subtilised the refinements of good-fellowship into a wink of connivance, a hint, a hidden meaning, a secret understanding, all the mysteries of complicity in a plot, and finally exalted his assurances of friendship to the level of protestations of affection, even of a declaration of love, lighting up for us, and for us alone, with a secret and languid flame invisible by the great lady upon…†   (source)
  • He gave us the news of the country; that it was alive with red-coats; that arms were being found, and poor folk brought in trouble daily; and that James and some of his servants were already clapped in prison at Fort William, under strong suspicion of complicity.†   (source)
  • There had been no open complicity between mother and daughter, no open understanding but, though people in the house began to talk of the affair, still Mrs. Mooney did not intervene.†   (source)
  • She was persuaded that irrepressible passion was the cause of his impatience; and being an ardent admirer of impulsiveness (when it did not lead to the spending of money) she always received him with a genial twinkle of complicity and a play of allusion to which May seemed fortunately impervious.†   (source)
  • Then she went off to a boarding-school and heard the girls talking—so from sheer self-protection she developed the idea that she had had no complicity—and from there it was easy to slide into a phantom world where all men, the more you liked them and trusted them, the more evil—†   (source)
  • …that expression in which the two-fold desire to make the speaker be quiet and to preserve, oneself, an appearance of guilelessness in the eyes of the listener, is neutralised in an intense vacuity; in which the unflinching signs of intelligent complicity are overlaid by the smiles of innocence, an expression invariably adopted by anyone who has noticed a blunder, the enormity of which is thereby at once revealed if not to those who have made it, at any rate to him in whose hearing it…†   (source)
  • Ah! if he could only manage to prevent it, if she could sprain her ankle before starting, if the driver of the carriage which was to take her to the station would consent (no matter how great the bribe) to smuggle her to some place where she could be kept for a time in seclusion, that perfidious woman, her eyes tinselled with a smile of complicity for Forcheville, which was what Odette had become for Swann in the last forty-eight hours.†   (source)
  • …but when the door had closed behind Saniette, she had forced the normal expression of her face down, as the saying is, by several pegs, so as to bring herself on to the same level of vulgarity as Forcheville; her eyes had sparkled with a malicious smile of congratulation upon his audacity, of ironical pity for the poor wretch who had been its victim; she had darted at him a look of complicity in the crime, which so clearly implied: "That's finished him off, or I'm very much mistaken.†   (source)
  • " 'We announce,' he read, in the same tone with which he would have read a newspaper, 'that to-day, the 23d of February, will be executed Andrea Rondolo, guilty of murder on the person of the respected and venerated Don Cesare Torlini, canon of the church of St. John Lateran, and Peppino, called Rocca Priori, convicted of complicity with the detestable bandit Luigi Vampa, and the men of his band.'†   (source)
  • The day after my return to Lille, my brother in his turn succeeded in making his escape; I was accused of complicity, and was condemned to remain in his place till he should be again a prisoner.†   (source)
  • He drew up a placard, offering Twenty Pounds reward for the apprehension of Stephen Blackpool, suspected of complicity in the robbery of Coketown Bank on such a night; he described the said Stephen Blackpool by dress, complexion, estimated height, and manner, as minutely as he could; he recited how he had left the town, and in what direction he had been last seen going; he had the whole printed in great black letters on a staring broadsheet; and he caused the walls to be posted with it…†   (source)
  • He had petitioned the bishop for an edict which expressly forbade the Bohemian women to come and dance and beat their tambourines on the place of the Parvis; and for about the same length of time, he had been ransacking the mouldy placards of the officialty, in order to collect the cases of sorcerers and witches condemned to fire or the rope, for complicity in crimes with rams, sows, or goats.†   (source)
  • Smerdyakov never hinted at their complicity, though the actual murderer persisted in accusing him and declaring that he had committed the crime alone.†   (source)
  • He had, or thought that he had, a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity.†   (source)
  • By acting in this way, I shield you from complicity, I absolve you of all responsibility, since I myself make it impossible for you to see what you aren't meant to see.†   (source)
  • Some of the journalists I have shocked reason so unripely that they will gather nothing from this but a confused notion that I am accusing the National Vigilance Association and the Salvation Army of complicity in my own scandalous immorality.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Henchard shortly, though little dreaming of Jopp's complicity in the night's harlequinade, and raising his eyes just sufficiently to observe that Jopp's face was lined with anxiety.†   (source)
  • No one but an innocent man, who had no fear of being charged with complicity, could have acted as he did.†   (source)
  • You, in complicity with the bewitched goat implicated in this suit, during the night of the twenty-ninth of March last, murdered and stabbed, in concert with the powers of darkness, by the aid of charms and underhand practices, a captain of the king's arches of the watch, Phoebus de Châteaupers.†   (source)
  • He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.†   (source)
  • It was proved by the skilful and eloquent representative of the public prosecutor, that the theft was committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member of a band of robbers in the south.†   (source)
  • "But perhaps it was not a case of active complicity on Smerdyakov's part, but only of passive acquiescence; perhaps Smerdyakov was intimidated and agreed not to prevent the murder, and foreseeing that he would be blamed for letting his master be murdered, without screaming for help or resisting, he may have obtained permission from Dmitri Karamazov to get out of the way by shamming a fit—'you may murder him as you like; it's nothing to me.'†   (source)
  • Machiavelli's strong condemnation of conspiracies may get its edge from his own very recent experience (February 1513), when he had been arrested and tortured for his alleged complicity in the Boscoli conspiracy.†   (source)
  • "It makes no matter that thou hast not taken an oath," said Don Quixote; "suffice it that I see thou art not quite clear of complicity; and whether or no, it will not be ill done to provide ourselves with a remedy."†   (source)
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