Sentence examples for cunning combination from inspiring English sources

A cunning combination of sporty and sexy.

Langella's Nixon was a cunning combination of cornball and oddball: bitter, humiliated, astute, and vainglorious.

I wasn't too far off: most mini-series provided a cunning combination of class and trash, catnip for an audience seeking something deeper than a soap opera, but just as racy.

Cris Benton, the former chairman of the architecture department at the University of California, Berkeley, stood at the Faire, patiently explaining how he and his like-minded friends take aerial photographs by hoisting cameras on kites, a cunning combination of high tech and old crafts.

The Arts Desk said Matilda was "a cunning combination of gross cartoon, pitch-perfect professionalism and endearing feel good factor".

They never give interviews or pose for pictures, in part because they value their privacy and in part because of a kind of underground code of silence, exile, and cunning — a combination, perhaps, of vestigial Stasi-era paranoia, punkish disdain for the media, and an embrace of the techno-culture virtue of anonymity.

But armed with the general's brilliant combination of cunning and self-belief, France made itself indispensable to the construction of Europe.

Employing a combination of cunning and charm, he climbed the organization's ranks over two decades to become its deputy director.

Like his neighbor Saddam Hussein, Assad kept his nation intact using a combination of cunning, Baathist ideology, economic incentives, nationalism, and terror.

Arik Sharon, the hardliner, has always surprised friends with his combination of cunning and openness, familial constancy and political resilience, sense of mission and sense of humor.

Most MPs assume that the London mayor will declare for Remain and has been postponing the announcement through some combination of cunning and cowardice.