Sentence examples for cunning of the from inspiring English sources
That'll be up to the quality and cunning of the people in charge.
Obama — bolstered by the political cunning of the House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi — succeeded.
Too often this rough-and-ready recycling destroys the force, and the cunning, of the "Iliad".
There is no doubting the cunning of the director, Niels Arden Oplev.
New details have since emerged about the cunning of the plot.
Armstrong was simply the best organized, most cunning of the dopers.
When, through the cunning of Loki, the trickster god, she and her apples were seized by the giant Thiassi and taken to the realm of the giants, the gods quickly began to grow old.
Their story is a classic case of what Hegel called "the cunning of reason": the way apparently random or anomalous events later turn out to be pieces in a larger historical design.
Small failures go on continuously in the system since nothing is perfect, but the safety devices and the cunning of designers, and the wit and experience of the operating personnel, cope with them.
He possesses the brutishness of Stalin, the cunning of Napoleon and the guerrilla swagger of a Gaddafi or Saddam.
The award-winning Radio 4 dramatisation of all eight Le Carré books featuring the tubby, bespectacled spymaster with "the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin".
