In the year 2000, a man finagled his way into a meeting with John Antioco, the CEO of Blockbuster, and proposed a partnership to manage Blockbuster's fledgling online business.
Journalists who manage to finagle access can feel they owe a company and its executives and, in turn, write meek and sympathetic accounts rather than penetrating prose.
Muraveisky kept Goncharov's sardonic definition of the " English way" of opening Japan: enter the Japanese ports, disembark without permission, and if the Japanese object, finagle a pretext for declaring war.
As I try to finagle our objects into roughly the same arrangement of our painting, it becomes clear that while Peeters' items are incredibly realistically rendered, the view she provides us isn't photographic.