The narrative moves along the line of intersection of contrasted planes, such as the fantasy world of Don Quixote and the cunning horse sense of Sancho Panza, or is made to oscillate between them.
Nicolas Sarkozy is obsessed with François Mitterrand; his cunning, his tactical sense, his ability to sense his countrymen's pulse.
His mediocrity hid a ruthless cunning and a sense of political opportunity.
Big, rumpled, embodying common sense, cunning and patience – with a touch of genius.
Who knows what she was really thinking, but it seemed to make a cunning kind of sense.
Anne's energy, strength of will, cunning, and political sense enabled her to overcome the difficulties threatening the kingdom, the most important of which was unrest among the magnates, who had suffered under Louis XI's callous oppressions.
Spain should be contenders but for all their young talents - Cesc Fábregas is four years junior to the youngest France could offer - they lack what the French boast in abundance: cunning and a sense of timing.
It can be rendered as glibness and superficial charm, manipulation, cunning, coldness, grandiose sense of self-worth, lack of remorse and empathy, emotionally shallow, calculating, and refusing to take responsibility for their own actions (Boddy et al. 2010; Williams et al. 2002).
My sense of cunning was increasing.
"We have to look for smart ways to bring in new members".Bringing Venezuela certainly was smart in the sense of cunning rather than wise.
