Not only can a cunning person lie to other people - she can also lie to herself.
Like the film The Great Escape, it celebrated that mixture of derring-do and cunning that lies at the heart of any leap for freedom, whether from a prisoner of war camp or a penal dungeon.
(Professor Black has his own Web site at www.thelockerbietrial.com) A defense lawyer, Richard Keen, accused Mr. Bollier of being "mired completely in a web of deceit, cunning and lying of your own invention," and the prosecution admitted it had considered charging him as a co-conspirator.
Give your opponent a false sense of security by faking an attack they will use their momentum to block, then attack them using your own power and cunning to lay your opponent out for the count.
The idea that cunning, stubbornness and lies were to be expected from a criminal — that it was in order to deal with such people that the police existed — didn't seem obvious to them at all.
Just possibly, however, his overture to the Pakistani Taliban could be part of a cunning plan to lay the ground for a military response, once he has conclusively proved that seeking peace with the Pakistani Taliban is a fool's errand.More likely, says Hasan Askari Rizvi, a security analyst, Mr Sharif's call for talks is a reflection of the country's muddled thinking about the TTP.
She politicks unscrupulously, she is cunning, and she lies a lot.
As with many of the skills a cunning person uses, lying can be improved with plenty of practice and smart planning.
There is some finery that even the most cunning personal shopper cannot lay her hands on.
And he was the saviour of communism in Cuba, his aid keeping the Castros in power while slowing the transition to capitalism in a bankrupt island.Theatre, cunning and oilTwo things lay at the heart of Mr Chávez's success.
