"The prime minister's announcement is something of a cunning stunt, but it's a good one," he said.
Negotiating their own TV agreement, legitimate or not, may have struck Premiership Rugby as a cunning plan but, as Baldrick could have told them, genius is in the eye of the beholder.
Perhaps it was the slope, maybe it was the brilliant execution of a cunning plan but Siddle produced the perfect away-swinging yorker; Joe Root was utterly nonplussed and his off-stump non-existent.
Beaten down by the bickering, Gal flies to London to help out with the robbery; it's a cunning affair, but although it comes with a new trick — the boys break into the vault underwater, in goggles and trunks — you feel something stale and diluted leak into the story.
I used to think of myself as simply a cunning linguist, but now I realize that I am actually a meme replicator.
He is a deeply Scottish self-image, in the same way that Asterix (intelligent, fair-minded, moyen sensuel, never at a loss, cunning but not malign) is a deeply French one.
Agamemnon Otero, CEO of Repowering London, had a rather cunning but wholly rewarding approach: "We got 20 year old men involved [in gardening] by saying we'll grow hops, we'll grow our own beer" – Why didn't I think of that?
On the surface, the novel is about Chichikov, who travels around Russia buying up dead souls as part of a cunning confidence trick, but critics have always held that the novel's title does not refer to the trade in deceased peasants, but to all Russia, with her dead soul, her empty, heartless nobility and civil servants, and her drunken, lazy people.
Of course, releasing a record over a batch of singles might be a cunning marketing ploy, but when the music is this good, we'll happily overlook that.
Some of the methods used by the rebels reflected a cunning forged in necessity, but also an ability, at times, for brutality.
