Sentence examples for cunning effort from inspiring English sources

The decision reflects an information policy that either is tone-deaf -- ignoring the fact that The A.P. is the only source of international news stories for hundreds of newspapers and radio stations -- or a cunning effort to limit information about the Rumsfeld trip.

It was a cunning effort that they had the integrity to document in their show.

The book tells the story of Pran Nath Razdan, born in early 20th-century India to an English father and an Indian mother, and his cunning efforts to obliterate his past and make a life for himself in a world in which he has no natural place.

A cunning attempt to trick you, as it were.

Or really something simpler: a cunning and desperate effort at money.

I hadn't read "Washington Square" in years — since high school, in fact — and if you'd asked me about it before I revisited it for this discussion, I would have said it was about a cunning and desperate effort at social ascension.

Amy has twice the brain, and ten times the cunning, but, despite the best efforts of Rosamund Pike, her character, onscreen as on the page, feels cooked up rather than lived in.

An intriguing sub-plot involves the efforts of the cunning Madame de St Cymon, a woman ostracised for some unspecified sexual misdemeanour, to win her way back into high society.