Sentence examples for a cunning of from inspiring English sources

You didn't get to where you are with a faint heart, but with a cunning of steel.

The feature is both a brilliant distortion of perspective and a cunning approximation of the confusion of combat.

Mr. Richler's humor, he said, "is based on a cunning understanding of the sneaky motives of flunkies and upstarts".

Martyn analyzes a swiftly published account of the Kenilworth pageant — today easily misread as an act of homage — which veiled a cunning piece of mockery.

As Roland Barthes said, and I use this quote only to sound smart, "The photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity".

Sometimes the cloak of celebrity falls over genuine talent and real originality, and sometimes a lack of these is concealed behind a cunning imitation of them.

In a cunning bit of p.r., Horowitz donated a lockerful of Everlast equipment that appeared in the recent film Ali.

Medley for Morin Khur is a cunning weave of fiction ("The sound box is made of a horse's head") and definition.

That's your story, isn't it?" It's a cunning summary of Palestinian rage: Amir has a point, but of course he is a ghost.

Tolstaya's radioactive world is a cunning blend of Russia's feudal and Soviet eras, with abuse of serfs, mandatory government service, and regulation of literature.

Obviously there's a lot at stake for the people of "Race," especially for Charles, whom Mr. Thomas portrays with a cunning air of masochistic martyrdom.