Sentence examples for canny direction from inspiring English sources

Rajapaksa's folksy, gruff bonhomie and his canny direction of development funds to the countryside has paid dividends at successive polls.

Under Venediktov's canny direction, the main presenters for Echo have developed an ear for what is permissible and what is not.

And a real skater -- the legendary Erik Ellington -- agreed to don double-breasted Tom Ford under the canny direction of Magnus Unnar and David Vandewal.

The humanity of the characters was seconded here by Mr. Graham's canny stage direction.

Last fall, I reported that the New York Philharmonic, under the canny and courageous direction of Alan Gilbert, was waking up.

Haroun's direction itself — his canny sense of point of view, of what to suggest and not to show — is the art of looking thoughtfully, sensitively, and analytically at the world at hand; its politics are all the more powerful for their immediacy.

Using a cast that adroitly mixes young actors making their feature-film debuts (including former One Direction member Harry Styles) with canny veterans such as Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance and Tom Hardy, "Dunkirk" resembles previous Nolan films like "The Dark Knight" trilogy and "Inception" in concrete as well as thematic ways.

The building, which will turn 10 years old next month, responds to the lonely moonscape urbanism of Bunker Hill with a shimmering, canny gregariousness that spills down Grand Avenue in both directions.

What this amounts to is that Goldman is fast, ruthless, opportunistic and canny in its multi-billion dollar bets on the direction of financial markets.

Darren Haines, spokesman for Paddy Power, said: "The money says O'Neill but for many it would be a surprise as the canny coach tends to go somewhere heading in an upward direction.

Canny investments and the purchase of major competitors in 1888 and 1892 under the direction of financier Hiram Bond, TCI Corporate General Superintendent, saw the firm grow rapidly.