Sentence examples for amount of cunning from inspiring English sources

Ireland have become a cuter side under their head coach, Joe Schmidt, but no amount of cunning could disguise their lack of pace out wide.

"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.

The fear is, here and everywhere, that this autumn's hardships are just the beginning: there will come a point when no amount of ingenuity, flexibility and cunning can stand in the way of empty coffers.

A remarkable, distinctive voice, deep enough to make a 20-year-old clench his toes with excitement; in appearance, striking rather than conventionally beautiful but, onstage, blessed with that natural god-given sexual attractiveness which no amount of acting artifice or cosmetic cunning can ever quite achieve.

There are all sorts of cunning flourishes.

To bypass taxes is celebrated as a mark of cunning.

My sense of cunning was increasing.

Without thinking, a flash of cunning in his eyes, Nawab lunged for the gun, but missed.

He had a lot of cunning, too.

Why shouldn't that kind of cunning include couture?

17 18 Future research could investigate whether a person's level of cunning, measured on a suitably developed scale such as the potential CCATBS (the Cunning, Conniving and All-round Tricky Bastard Scale), enables them to walk at slow speeds while still avoiding Death.