Sentence examples for canny control from inspiring English sources

(The term was misapplied to Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, which exalt a canny control).

As played with gentle warmth by Sterling K. Brown, Darden lacks both Clark's righteousness and Cochran's canny control.

But – as this enterprising revival of Mary Rose looks set to prove – his art is often at its deepest when it leaves an audience unable to decide whether the play is altogether aware of how extensive an emotional striptease its author is performing or whether it is fixing with a stare that dares you to question its canny control.

Psychedelic soul was popularised by canny, controlling producers with an agenda to unite rock and soul audiences.

A cynical listener has to wonder if the album constitutes a full-throated denunciation of masculine entitlement or just canny damage control, a way of repackaging the band's irrevocable white maleness for an increasingly woke listenership.

But Farah is now too canny, too controlled, too experienced to allow himself to bullied.

For others he is a canny manipulator, utterly in control of his reputation and place in the art world and market.

Rather she is canny, strikingly demure, in control of her own career and, it should be noted, author of her own songs.

Many of the people were reluctant to talk — it was well known that Ivanishvili hated publicity of any kind — but those I did speak to painted a picture of an essentially modest man: clever, canny, very much in control.

Many of the people were reluctant to talk it was well known that Ivanishvili hated publicity of any kind but those I did speak to painted a picture of an essentially modest man: clever, canny, very much in control.

"Social media have gone from being the natural infrastructure for sharing collective grievances and coordinating civic engagement to being a computational tool for social control, manipulated by canny political consultants and available to politicians in democracies and dictatorships alike," the report said.