Sentence examples for canny professional from inspiring English sources

But a big part of me thinks that Mr. Laib is a canny, professional purveyor of New Age hokum, which he dresses up in suave, Postminimalist style.

A canny professional, he managed to scale down his sound while also grappling with a Steinway piano still new enough that the action may have been a little stiff (to judge from some of the rippling passagework in the Opus 28 Preludes, taken at blistering tempos).

That there are too many people who respond more thrillingly to the idea of themselves as writers -- and, therefore, make certain canned and canny professional moves -- rather than ones who approach the work as an almost priestly calling, like Roth who delivered this self-diagnosis in a recent New York Times interview: "If I did not do it, I would die".

Eager young devotees soon had their own stories published, and, as time passed, they became the hardened, canny professionals of the SF pulp world.

And whenever a major sporting event takes place, we are left in no doubt that everybody involved, from the canniest professional to the lowliest fan, is engaged in a daily round of rituals that makes the average Haitian voodoo ceremony seem a lacklustre affair.

But as luck would have it, Handy has also filed for the office, thus pitting the canny, cynical professional politician against the one thing canny, cynical professional politicians apparently fear most: "a genuinely honest man," as one of Cole's aides (the former child star Fred Savage) describes the relentlessly modest, affable Handy.

It is, without a doubt, a canny and professional work.

The Booker enjoys the canny and professional support of the Man Group, an influential, and well-endowed, international fund.