Sentence examples for cunning play from inspiring English sources

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The Northcott, Exeter, has a revival of Pinter's cunning play, Betrayal, which works backwards from the end to the start of an affair.

ANNOUNCER: Now it's Mrs. Patmore with a booming kick to midfield, and Mr. Barrow makes a cunning play for it, completely blindsiding Lady Edith, who crumples to the turf.

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Scouting the enemy formation was a subordinate issue, although contemporary descriptions indicated that formations and maneuvers, showing ingenuity and cunning, played a large part in the outcomes.

Any other wise fools making it to the White House will be hard pressed to fill his cowboy boots.Barry Cornell of Sevenoaks, Kent, wrote:My nomination is the person who has, through his cunning, played a major role in the defeat of communism, and through his idiocy helped consign the third world to a poverty induced largely by his opposition to birth control.

His cache of Call Outs, Mirrors, Peacocks and Baits were cunning plays on a monster competitor, the U.S. intelligence community.

During his 35 years in power, President Dos Santos has developed remarkable cunning in playing off one foreign power against the other, just like he does in domestic politics.

This is fortunate for Giuliani who, whenever Judith is around, acts and looks like Uncle Fester in Addams Family Values under the spell of the cunning nanny played by Joan Cusack.

This one-man show, which comes to the Berkshires by way of Berlin, does away with discrete disciplines to challenge the laws of physics and play cunning tricks on the eye.

Under the direction of Jimmy Fay, "Ages of the Moon" has the loose banter and percussive rhythms of Shepard's early plays — it even has an eleven-o'clock "aria" — but the evening has more splash than sizzle; nonetheless, since Shepard is a cunning craftsman, the play's charm is insinuating.

Nor does the book explain the new economics of sport or how a cunning general manager plays his cards in the confusion of college drafts, costly free agents and payroll ceilings.

The former was actually a very cunning man who played a somewhat controversial part in the history of Britain.

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