Sentence examples for cunning on from inspiring English sources

Pete plays the situation much as you'd expect: short of sympathy on the one hand and with cunning on the other.

LOS ANGELES — The retired racecar driver Dan Gurney perhaps best summarized the life of Carroll Shelby at the Petersen Automotive Museum on Wednesday: "He was a man of contradictions, kind on one hand and very cunning on another.

Previous coaches gave him that one because his sticky fingers and cunning on defense turned up so many steals.

Indeed, I am fairly sure almost all Conservative MPs will be herded into the "Maybe" camp by a twitch of deferent loyalty on one flank, the cracking whip of strategic cunning on the other.

The historical epic centres on the fierce rivalry between Union general George Armstrong Custer and Confederate colonel John Singleton Mosby, nicknamed the Gray Ghost for his stealth and cunning on the battlefield.

She was reluctant to admit that this might be evidence of any narrative cunning on her part, but this seemed more like an unwillingness to use a certain literary-critical vocabulary.

What makes it stand out, a number of educators say, is the artful way that Mr. Rogers and his successor wielded old-fashioned ward politics and Machiavellian cunning to play on the ethnic divisions of one of New York's more checkerboard neighborhoods.

"They have so many things to deal with, so clearly this is a difficult thing to control and of course there is a certain amount of cunning that goes on,'' said Ettore Corsale, a spokesman for the city government.

Mr Khare blames Mr Singh for not having the pluck to take on cunning civil society activists and rogue corporate interests who are trying to discredit his government; he also criticises him for not using his considerable intellectual heft to challenge government auditors who the government believes have exaggerated the revenue losses due to sale of telecom licences.

Maybe for the first time in the history of male competitiveness, winning depends not on pedigree, or brute force, or cunning, but on the right amount of paprika.

"Revenge," a new drama on ABC, has found its own cunning take on the procedural, with a protagonist as charismatic as Dexter, and maybe even nuttier.