He often began his broadcast: "Just back from-" Some European capital, or the home of a dignitary at which political high intrigue was discussed over dinner.

What subsequently evolves is high political intrigue and pressure smoothly applied to silence even the 'honest cop'.

'Meaning a black kid gets gunned down in a bad black neighborhood with a Baggie of rock clutched in his hot little hands doesn't exactly shout high intrigue.'

Now that they had been swept up into high intrigue, the making and unmaking of Powers, none of them would ever be as they had been before.

He checks his watch while the two prosecutors step to the back of the room, hands cupped to ears and lips, the hissing of whispers, high intrigue.

The village has its own link to high intrigue, too.

But the generals were huddled together in their usual world of high intrigue.

These high intrigues are too chancy for a simple fellow like me.

Maybe it ought to be the hotel for the highest intrigues as well.

So much for high intrigue.