Sibilant and filmy-eyed, he serves the Si-Fan, a Chinese secret society with ambitions for world domination.
"Young nationalists and republicans do not want to join a secret society, " he said.
Mr Morsi joined the secret society, gaining a reputation as a diligent and competent organiser.
They might have been a secret society, meeting at odd hours in hidden nooks around the lake.
His observations became the basis for last year's best-selling book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists.
They are no secret society, though it must seem that way to those on the outside -- particularly to anxious parents.
The attorney general alleges they formed a "secret society" with links to the Muslim Brotherhood that plotted to overthrow the government.
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It was the Freemasons' turn and the narrative of a secret society plotting in the shadows has never gone away, says Cohen.
Characters break out into song at crucial moments and dance away the evenings in a night club yet a secret society run by the club manager threatens to turn their serious fun into frivolous danger.
"There is definitely that feeling of being in a secret society, " said actor Colin Hanks, who said he has been a Kings fan since his father, actor Tom Hanks, took him to his first game in 1987.
The favored became an exclusive club, or not-so-secret society, or conspiring cabal, depending on your point of view, who met at Johnson's notorious and exclusionary Century Club dinners where they settled the future of architecture and the built world.
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Particularly for those of us who have waited for our loved ones to return from a combat zone, it's like joining a secret society when you encounter another member of that society, not much needs to be said.
He manfully resists them all until he reaches a mysterious villa where a secret society gathers for a masked orgy: The men dress up first as monks, then as musketeers, while the women wear nun's habits, then nothing but veils.
All this moving of the goalposts is sounding a bit like the doctoring of the supposedly unalterable Seven Commandments daubed on the barn wall in George Orwell's Animal Farm, or some kids adopting a no-Horace policy in their secret society because they don't like Horace.
Fear that a secret society such as the Brotherhood might capture the presidency as well as parliament could boost rival candidates, among them Amr Moussa, the former Secretary General of the Arab League, who led in early polls, and Abdel Moneim Abolfotoh, a former senior Brother who was expelled for choosing to vie for the presidency without permission from the Brotherhood's leadership.
La Familia also has its secret-society mystique, which all crime groups have to some degree, but which is exaggerated by the macabre spiritualism espoused by El Chayo and his ilk.
An attractive and popular preacher, he soon became a moderator in the church and, at 25, the youngest-ever member of the Broederbond, the secret Afrikaner society his father had helped form.
If a society accepts that it needs secret agencies doing secret work on behalf of citizens, does that logically mean the secrecy can never end?
"Ours is an open society in which relatively few things are secret, " DeGraffenreid noted.
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The other dirty secret of higher ed is that it is not making society a whole lot more productive.
It is no secret that traditionally and culturally Japan is a man-centric society.
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Ms Abbott said in a speech on Tuesday that fast-developing technology and an "increasingly pornified British culture" has led to a "secret garden, strip-tease culture in British schools and society, which has been put beyond the control of British families".
It is no secret that Mr Habibie has courted support in strongly Islamic sections of Indonesian society, and that many Muslims resent the privileges some Chinese had under Mr Suharto.
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It is no secret that the Cali mob in its heyday bought support at the highest levels of society.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society came into being because of a roast pig we had to keep secret from the German soldiers, so I feel a kinship to Mr. Lamb.
Secret intelligence agencies are designed to act routinely in ways that violate the laws or standards of society.
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Waheeba, desperate for her daughter to fit in to Sudanese society and anxious that no man will want to marry her, circumcises her in secret.
If the payback is not large enough to justify the cost of the loan, although a tariff will certainly help the business owner get his trade secret without any cost to him, the cost of the tariff is diversified across all of society.
The Bush administration has generally dismissed concerns about the roughly two-dozen U.S.-Canadian-Mexican working groups beavering away in secret to produce tripartite understandings, rules and regulations that will "harmonize" virtually every facet of business and society in North America.
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