Sentence examples for cunning enough from inspiring English sources

Her mother was cunning enough to know when she was not wanted.

(This assumes that the terrorists aren't cunning enough to disguise themselves).

Only one man is cunning enough to do the necessary dirty deed.

Terrorists will always manage to kill people, if they are cunning enough or pick easy enough targets.

But would someone cunning enough to have returned a phoney skull not have put back the other missing bones too?

(He was cunning enough not to paint the Second and Third of May, which depict French killings of 1808, until Napoleon was routed years later).

For years Pepe has been a neat symbiosis of Fagin and Bill Sikes, both cunning and with enough muscle to back it up.

What can men learn from animals? – and with them created a world-conquering ubermensch every bit as enduring as his own boy hero, full of animal strength and cunning, and human enough to appreciate it.

Although only 16 years old when she meets and falls in love with Jason, Medea is cunning and unscrupulous enough to help him possess the Fleece and to dispatch her brother Apsyrtus, whom she resents for being the heir to the throne of Colchis.

Nicola Barr Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Lao She's unsentimental tale follows peasant boy Hsiang- tzu, who is drawn to Peking by dreams of independence and comfort but whose strength and cunning are not enough to save him from despair as he pulls a rickshaw from dawn till dark.

Just like in Aesop's fable, the highly cunning New Caledonian crow has enough reasoning ability to drop rocks into tubes of water and raise the level of a floating snack.