Sentence examples for cunning device from inspiring English sources

When we call now for measures to ensure ethical democratic practice, this is not a cunning device to impose ties and restrictions or a relinquishing of democracy.

This cunning device allows Rowling, every so often, to pop by her "Pottermore" website and post gossipy stories in Rita's voice.

This setup is farcical, and the telling is structured like a speedy whodunnit: we know from the start that the SAS end the siege, but this is merely a cunning device to leave mysteries.

The conventional bedroom-farce plot (filmed twice before) is about a couple who still love each other but have a tiff and file for divorce; during the period of the interlocutory decree, the husband has visiting rights to see their dog, and this cunning device enables Grant to hang around, romping affectionately with the dog while showing his (unstated) longing for his wife.

Putting it to a parliamentary vote was a cunning device to create a dividing line – or so the chancellor hoped – that would put the Tories on the side of hard-working "strivers" and force Labour to choose between endorsing a benefits squeeze that many in its ranks would see as a betrayal of its core values or looking like the defenders of idle "scroungers".

It is Roberts's conceit that the little people of "Gulliver's Travels" have been become slaves of the industrial revolution, prized for their unsurpassed skills in constructing "fancy machinery and cunning devices".

In case the connection between barbaric wildlife and barbaric people wasn't obvious enough, he portrayed one of these insects, that leaves a crescent-shaped marking on fruit, as a "little Turk" that uses "sly devices of cunning and fear", reflecting the racist stereotype with which Turks at the time were characterised in Anglophone nations.

I've also found that cunning lifestyle devices such as not buying records by Afrojack, and not volunteering to go and have cakes thrown at me at Steve Aoki gigs, have been almost 100% effective in keeping my EDM consumption on a scale of my choosing. .

Ehrenburg's book is as cunning and oblique as the device used to make it, turning the conventional view of Paris – all boulevards and romance – on its head.

Small failures go on continuously in the system since nothing is perfect, but the safety devices and the cunning of designers, and the wit and experience of the operating personnel, cope with them.

Last week Dell released its new Inspiron Duo, a hybrid device that, through the cunning use of hinges, can go from a tablet to a keyboarded portable in a short flip.