Sentence examples for canny advice from inspiring English sources
Fonteyn gave the wry but canny advice, "Find a step you do well — and then do it well".
Now retired, he has a lifetime's canny advice up the sleeve of his Létt-Lopi Icelandic wool jumper.
He gives Ballindine such canny advice, both about the turf and about marriage, that he is utterly convincing as someone who knows and makes use of many intemperate men but will never be one himself.
President Coin is the anchor of the film, with her bold and canny tactics (she repudiates Plutarch's advice, telling him, "You're out of your depth" in a matter of war) and her quiet address of Katniss as "soldier".
Playing a canny old papa bear dispensing nuggets of advice to a flock of unruly cubs in "Feast of Love," Morgan Freeman, Hollywood's sage for all seasons, has a role he could act in his sleep.
And yet Cameron – who is five years older than his chancellor – has been canny enough to harness this to his own advantage: he already has the advice of Steve Hilton (Cameron's director of strategy) for blue-sky thoughts about Big Societies and the like.
He had a canny ability to recognize the battles that needed fighting and those that didn't, when to take advice and from whom to take it, and when to see himself both as leader and as a team member.
Canny survivor Euro-apartheid?
And it's ideologically canny.
