These centroids should be placed in a cunning way because of different location causes different results.
The late Nicholas Tomalin famously wrote that "the only qualities essential for real success in journalism are rat-like cunning, a plausible manner, and a little literary ability".
Less derisively, Nicholas Tomalin, a war correspondent for The Sunday Times of London who was killed in 1973, coined a more flattering job description: "The only qualities essential for real success in journalism are rat-like cunning, a plausible manner and a little literary ability".
"RATLIKE cunning, a plausible manner and a little literary ability"—the qualities of a successful journalist, according to Nicholas Tomalin, one of the breed are not traditionally valued in think-tanks, the semi-academic institutions that come up with ideas for politicians.
Their tips had been cut and bent into all manner of cunning moons, diamonds, and tildes.
The furious archbishop demanded that she return, outraged that a Christian woman should have acted in so "cunning and nefarious" a manner.
He's too consciously zany; he's funny at times (and he uses a Groucho turn of phrase like a shiv), but he's heavy-spirited and cunning, in the Anthony Newley manner.
Or — and this is where the Prime Minister and the film itself reach toward a third, more quizzical option — do you, in the midst of your impatience with an encrusted élite, start to ask yourself what manner of cunning, even of wisdom, has led it to survive so long, and whether, on the sly, you might learn from its example?
By means of what journalists recognise as rat-like cunning, allied to a personable manner, he wormed his way into Freud's confidence and became a regular breakfast companion.
The lyrics to the Scottish songs include locutions like "that pawky quean," a phrase I intend to use (pawky means "shrewd and cunning, often in a humorous manner").
He said they had acted in "a manner so sleazy and cunning as to deserve the ultimate punishment".
