They are the cunning hand of history: inevitability, but in the form of drift.
For the land has been shaken as by an earthquake, and the foundations of industry are dried, the arm of the worker is palsied, the cunning hand is motionless, and the hum and stir of a busy commerce are changed to the dejected silence of a day of national fasting and humiliation.
Those questions are answered, or at least intriguingly complicated, by a stream of revelations, setbacks and power plays that Perera, a British lawyer making an impressive screenwriting debut, dispenses with a cunning hand.
Faced with this problem, Benjamin Britten found a way to deceive the ear and comfort the voice: in the closing bars of War Requiem, he executes a cunning sleight of hand by passing an F sharp in one voice to a C in another so that nobody has to make the actual dreaded leap.
The tradition may contain imaginary elements but also traces of history: fairies and goblins on the one hand, cunning beldames and stepmothers on the other.
"The nation state is such a cunning instrument in the hands of capitalism now.
Jones had been a stout, dependable right guard, which required a quick first step, strong hands and cunning wit.
Indeed, if the campaign did work with Vladimir Putin's Russia to boost Trump to the presidency, then a cunning foreign leader's hands may have deep reach into our country's current affairs, potentially influencing domestic and foreign policy decisions, as well as military strategies.
The group with the imposing name Institute for Applied Autonomy found video appropriate for presenting a cunning robot that will hand out leaflets and write graffiti as a surrogate for a human who might get arrested doing the same.
As we have no cunning nun disguises to hand, there follow 10 minutes of hammering and pleading at the stage door before it's finally unchained and these two objects of adoration can slip, unnoticed, inside.
