Sentence examples for as a cunning from inspiring English sources

He emerges as a cunning diplomat, a shrewd if ruthless leader and an administrative genius.

Some filmmakers employed candor as a cunning, if risky, marketing ploy.

Christoph Waltz is thought to have joined the cast of Skyfall sequel Bond 24 as a "cunning nemesis".

Trip, the businessman, can be seen either as a sadly isolated high-flier or as a cunning tactician.

Some have described this actor, 20 years in the business, as a cunning manipulator of her own image.

Even people who usually shun gambling as a cunning ruse for the state to raise taxes do it.

Paul Chahidi, for instance, is a bosomy wonder as the gentlewoman Maria, here configured afresh as a cunning, low-down figure of malice as well as mirth.

Words make the world go 'round here through repetitions, indirection, allusion as well as a cunning deployment of the barely said and the flat-out unspeakable.

On the big screen, those taking human form often now do so only as a cunning means of disguising their actual fantasticality.

But the raven is a clever bird, a fact noted by American Indian stories, in which it stars as a cunning trickster.

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".