intriguer

They whispered darkly about his "Teutonic strain" and suspected that his uncle Louis Mountbatten, a notorious intriguer, was proposing to use him as a Trojan horse to help bring the monarchy more into line with his own "rather pink" political outlook.

Hardy has a tiny role in Sofia Coppola’s film, playing Raumont, the discontented nobleman at Marie Antoinette’s court, a young intriguer who is a keen enough participant in the power politics of the day, but without the status to which he thinks himself entitled.

In Ukraine, Lutsenko was widely seen as an intriguer.

A former deputy of Mifsud’s at the University of Malta, Joseph Grech, called him a “hawwadi,” a Maltese word meaning “intriguer.”

While B-sides or rare studio versions crop up here and there — highlighted by the gorgeous, piano-dissected distress call “Turn It Around,” from 2010’s “Intriguer,” and the jazz-kissed, sad clown lament “So Dramatic” from 2007’s “Time on Earth” — the bulk of the extra material hews toward demos, live songs, studio outtakes and alternate versions.