Sentence examples for canny mind from inspiring English sources

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If you've seen any of Mr. Brooks's movies or those television shows he wrote for or had a hand in creating, you know how he parodies genres and stereotypes with an open heart and a canny mind.

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In images such as these, she shows us her body; what she sells, meanwhile, is that canny, beautiful mind.

Michael, by contrast, is a competent actor with a canny business mind; but everywhere he's been, his dad always got there first.

Lanni, one of the canniest financial minds in Vegas and steward of the number two gambling company in the world, will break ground later this year on the biggest and most ambitiously different property Sin City has ever seen: CityCenter.

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?

And perhaps reinventing Freud as a literary figure on the order of Joyce, Proust and Kafka rather than presenting him as a rigorous cartographer of the mind is a canny way to keep him alive in the public imagination.

It programmatically plays down the suspense during the ultimate contest, which pits Kailey against Duncan John Jubackk), a canny, seasoned pool hustler adept at mind games.

That same year, however, Jagger lit up Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell's lysergic cult drama Performance, brilliantly portraying Turner, a drug-addled but canny rock star who messes with the mind of a fugitive gangster (James Fox).

And it can't hurt that the new (well, newish) Brooklyn gives bohemian early-20th-century Paris a run for its money when it comes to canny self-promotion, promising intoxications of the mind and body that appeal to college graduates looking for the next buzz and television producers looking for the next big thing.

This is not an account of the tragedy that plays down the politics (Stewart's low-key, canny portrayal demonstrates that Claudius is the subtlest mind in the play after Hamlet) but the production ends with the arrival of a burly Fortinbras who is left standing mute in the doorway.

(Anderson Young Jeezyy (Sunday) After wrapping his "Thug Motivation" trilogy of albums in 2011, this canny Southern rapper was bestowed a Grammy nomination for "Lose My Mind".

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