Sentence examples for canny fellow from inspiring English sources

But Seif is a canny fellow.

Stephen Sondheim, a canny fellow, evidently wasn't interested.

And if it all falls apart, most observers expect that the canny fellows at the BoS will be soon knocking at someone else's door with a bid.

Hans Haekkerup, the Dane chosen to replace him within the next few weeks, is a quieter, cannier, steadier sort of fellow, a consummate politician who, as Denmark's defence minister for eight years and a military expert before that, has been navigating the corridors of NATO, the Pentagon and the UN for at least 15 years.

(MacMillan is impressed because this 30-ish fellow has a canny understanding of what toys kids like to play with).

Brothers in arms and in religious conviction, the brethren of the title are the canny, austere celibate Jean de Sauveterre and his fellow captain Jean de Siorac, passionate, impulsive and courageous: the latter is also the admired father of the novel's narrator, Pierre.

Demonic protrusions grow from the skull of Radcliffe's middle-American schmuck, and with them comes canny insight into the darkest impulses of his fellow townspeople; it's a symbolically blunt adaptation of Joe Hill's novel, but Radcliffe and director Alexandre Aja go for it.

Canny lads.