Sentence examples for considerable cunning from inspiring English sources

The season is being sold with considerable cunning.

Boiling the concept of minimal interaction down to purest form, each level requires nothing more than a single screen tap, and yet Splode still demonstrates considerable cunning.

But now that Jay Taylor has written his comprehensive book "The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China," we are able to see Chiang as a man of considerable cunning, brutality and patience who skillfully played a weak hand against the Japanese and Mao's forces while extracting huge sums from the Americans.

The movie was written by Bryan Sipe and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, a filmmaker of considerable cunning, who takes predicaments that should by rights deflate the heart — an H.I.V. diagnosis in "Dallas Buyers Club" (2013), a psychological debacle in "Wild" (2014) — and turns them into nimble entertainments.

But, with considerable dramatic cunning, Wesker largely avoids that trap.

Octopuses, squids, and cuttlefishes display considerable skill and cunning in hunting, stalking patiently, or luring prey within reach of their arms or tentacles.

Of course, he wouldn't be where he is today without a considerable vein of cunning, and this can be gauged by his astounding art collection, built up by swapping prints for works by his subjects, who have included Mondrian, Ernst, Leger and de Kooning and nearly every other heavy hitter in the Modernist line.

Wilson is a man out of time, a daring highwire scholar operating without the safety net of the academy, a belletrist who, through low cunning and considerable talent, manages to thrive somehow in our hectic, post-literate times.

The judge said: "You employed a considerable degree of planning and cunning in gaining the trust of the parents of the children you abused.

His methodical execution of the plan was a mixture of the old Nixonian cunning and also pathos; considerable intelligence and focused determination.

The more wary among our swing voters chose words such as "cunning" and "skillful", but overall there was considerable appreciation of the plucky upstart.