Sentence examples for cunning game from inspiring English sources

Enter "Game Change," right in the nick of time for Steele to pull off his own cunning game change.

Knowing the strength of Real's desire to sign Bale, Tottenham have played a cunning game all summer with regards to their star player's departure.

These objects may be useless and his rendering of them less than adequate, but this is, in part, a cunning game: they fetch a higher price as artworks than the originals ever will.

Shalini Randeria noted India's cunning game with its partial execution of the reform policies: partial privatization of public sector institutions, partial compliance of rupee devaluation, non-compliance with the privatization of the labour market, and the total compliance with the removal of unprofitable agricultural subsidies (Randeria, 2003 20077).

The cunning game of appointing young ideologues to the bench has paid off handsomely for the corporate power structure.

But then Peter is killed in a car accident … Brookmyre plays a cunning, careful game, allowing Diana to co-narrate so plausibly that we are never sure if she is genuinely empathetic (and therefore unfairly maligned as a psychopath) or just brilliant at emulating emotion for our benefit.

It's guys like Santoro, the off-speed, changeup, fleet-footed backboard with the cunning head games and underspin two-fisted forehand, who have driven Federer to distraction in the past.

My professor's pronouncement felt too didactic, too political, and, although I tried to put it out of my mind and enjoy "Lolita" 's cunning, surprising games with language, I could no longer pick up the book without feeling the weight of his judgment.

HITMAN: CODENAME 47 -- This tactical, problem-solving game emphasizes cunning over carnage.

He claims for the longest time that he can't remember whether he did away with her or not, and for the rest of the book Faulks gets to indulge in the unreliable-narrator game of cunning ellipses and selective, gradual revelation, which he manages competently.

A wise cynic might suggest that the operations researchers on both sides were playing a cunning strategy in a game over funding, one that involved them cooperating with one another in order to convince their politicians to allocate more resources to weapons.