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".
It argued either for a kind of restraint or a kind of low cunning in the training of the police.
Aldrich's Mike Hammer is a sort of low, cunning animal let loose in a cultural landscape he knows nothing about (emphasized by the film's frequent references to classical music, romantic poetry and modern art) and will eventually come close to annihilating when his blundering investigation of a murder leads him to a scientist smuggling atomic secrets.
The descent of the tabloid press has illustrated what constitutes "wrong" material, generated by journalists using a combination of low cunning and high technology.
Wilson is a man out of time, a daring highwire scholar operating without the safety net of the academy, a belletrist who, through low cunning and considerable talent, manages to thrive somehow in our hectic, post-literate times.
He records, with some pride, his skill at avoiding direct questions and showcases Castle's "guile and low cunning" comment below a chapter heading.
"I think, with a mixture of sweet reasonableness and low cunning, we should be able to fix it," Stowe assured Callaghan.
And here's me thinking that politics in America is a dirty business, where high ideals meet low cunning.
A love story, more than most stories, needs the most careful shaping, a strange combination of high inspiration and low cunning.
My boss isn't smart, but he possesses a low, animal cunning which has finally taught him to add at least another week to whatever deadline he's given me.
