Sentence examples similar to cunning knowledge from inspiring English sources

William Feehan, the Fire Department's second-highest official, whose knowledge and cunning in battling fires himself made him the stuff of legend to his firefighters, died Tuesday when the south tower of the World Trade Center collapsed on his command station.

Galileo's myth is not unlike the fat knight's, the story of a medieval ethic of courage and honor supplanted by the modern one of cunning, wit, and self-knowledge.

And with patience and cunning, he built up the knowledge he needed.

Sometimes there was concern over the existence of "cunning men and women" with inherited knowledge based on a cosmology incompatible with the new Protestantism.

In his counter-response to Hutton, Ward accepting that Pickingill could have been associated with "some apparent supernatural control or knowledge of horses" as Taylor had claimed, but that this did not automatically make him a cunning man, for which there remained no contemporary historical evidence.

Here: "Cunning?

Cunning, eh?

Or "Cunning at math".

The Italians' cunning plan?

Cunning, yet oddly simple.

Very cunning, very shrewd.