Sentence examples for clever operator from inspiring English sources

"Osborne is a very, very clever operator.

"You get this impression of Manafort as a maybe unethical but savvy, clever operator," Davidson said.

"She is clearly a clever operator who is not above using her considerable feminine charms to do things," Wilson said.

I think Mr. Hanssen thought he was a darned clever operator (he was right) and he simply wanted peer approval.

He thought he was a clever operator, but his political instincts were almost always wrong, and after the death of Joseph II he so alienated the emperor's successors that he was exiled from Vienna too.

Despite his versatility as a man of letters, Stephen Spender never lacked for hostile critics, and even his friends could not resist twitting him: Cyril Connolly once gibed that there were two Stephen Spenders — one "an inspired simpleton, a great big silly goose, a holy Russian idiot," the other a clever operator who was "shrewd, ambitious, aggressive and ruthless".

Similarly, tactics used in Iraq and Afghanistan are discussed, but if these interventions fail to produce stable governments, the United States may be worse off in the end despite the hard work of clever operators.

Get ready to be dazzled - the strategies employed will reflect the imagination of Washington's most clever operators.

Prescott is an intelligent man, and a clever political operator.

But Francis is also, in his own words, "a little furbo" – ie, shrewd, clever, an operator.

He came to be known as a powerful & clever bull operator, particularly adept in the art of squeezing short sellers.