'cunning man' is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it, for example, as a title when referring to a male person that is particularly skilled or clever. Example: "He has been a cunning man in his business negotiations".
"The Cunning Man", the first volume, was published in 1995 and is a fine book in its own right.
The former was actually a very cunning man who played a somewhat controversial part in the history of Britain.
"A very cunning man; if we try to demonize him, we're going to lose".
"A very cunning man; if we try to demonize him, we're going to lose". And the World Trade Center?
Wise Children, by Angela Carter Boy's Life, by Robert McCammon The Cunning Man, by Robertson Davies All of them celebrate story, all of them celebrate life.
Sometimes there was concern over the existence of "cunning men and women" with inherited knowledge based on a cosmology incompatible with the new Protestantism.
This was especially the case when the cunning men and women were taking over the casting of spells and incantations that had been the province of the Catholic priest but were not the province of the Protestant minister.
There are elegant essays, on apple-green paper, on grouped themes - dragons, fairies, witches, bottomless pools, cunning men and (separately) high magicians - but also on individuals such as the murderers of Thomas Becket, on Shakespeare, Boadicea and Oliver Cromwell.
The images commissioned early on by the railroad companies highlighted the public-service aspect of the construction, hiding the wealth it created for a few "cunning" men.
Naturally, however, many observers were left wondering things like, "Why did Trump go on Russia's state-owned news channel?" Or, "How did they not know how this would go over?" The Trump campaign's day-after excuses boil down to: "We were duped by one of the world's most cunning men, Larry King". .
