There is also a certain psychological cunning about the poses Mr. Neri selects.
Definitely not on my list: Janos Slynt who did, however, demonstrate a certain sly cunning this week.
If the distinguished members of our state's upper chamber are not quite the heirs of Solon and Cicero, they do have a certain animal cunning.
Graced with charm, drive, judgment and a certain bureaucratic cunning, Reston positioned himself as the quintessential journalistic outsider mingling amiably with the capital's governmental insiders.
Douthat, mercifully free of that syndrome but not of a certain priestly cunning, ended his column on Trudeau by excoriating "today's progressivism as a force that has consistently liberated adults at the expense of children's basic rights".
Other possible inspirations include Lieutenant Colonel Sir Claude Dansey, deputy head of MI6 and head of the wartime Z network, who achieved different interpretations of his character from those who knew him: Malcolm Muggeridge thought him "the only professional in MI6", whilst Hugh Trevor-Roper considered Dansey to be "an utter shit, corrupt, incompetent, but with a certain low cunning".
"They have so many things to deal with, so clearly this is a difficult thing to control and of course there is a certain amount of cunning that goes on,'' said Ettore Corsale, a spokesman for the city government.
Fallon: I think he has a certain Slytherin-esque cunning.
Although Andre Braugher's Claudius exudes a certain hefty command, he has no insinuating political cunning.
In fact, I find George to be a cunning, self-reliant guy — in a certain respect, a kind of conservative.
