Sentence examples for canny idea from inspiring English sources

These boldly branded, retro-flavoured pendant lights are a canny idea.

It's a canny idea, but it's possible, too, to regard it as the finale in some dread triptych that starts with Seventeen Seconds, gathers misanthropic pace with Faith and culminates here, with the Cure at their most magnificently bleak.

According to KFC Japan, one canny expat had the idea to fill the void of home-cooked roasted turkey with the Colonel's fried chicken.

Though the usual obstacles to enterprise may temporarily tether him, it is safe to assume that at least one concern that crosses the mind of all canny would-be entrepreneurs -- is this an impossibly hokey idea?

Many blockbuster products have their roots in bright ideas, rigorous research and canny marketing, rather than luck.

Gates, 40, is both at the same time, an enormous dreamer canny enough to make his outlandish ideas for the neighborhood a reality.

Canny film-makers have cottoned on to the idea, like James Cameron, who says: "You try to create one or more emotional, epiphanous moments within a film".

What the academy is really honoring, though, is the idea of Roger Corman: movie-loving independent, canny businessman, early adopter of (reasonably) intelligent pulp, and benign godfather to talented young filmmakers.