Sentence examples for cunning skill from inspiring English sources

He also deploys the rather cunning skill of using quotations to get at thorny issues.

"Forthwith Medea made Aeson a sweet young boy and stripped his old age from him by her cunning skill, when she had made a brew of many herbs in her golden cauldrons". The story goes that Heracles was besieging Themiscyra on the Thermodon and could not take it; but Antiope, being in love with Theseus who was with Heracles on this expedition, betrayed the place.

In his report to the Committee on Public Lands, he concluded that if the bill failed to become law, "the vandals who are now waiting to enter into this wonder-land, will in a single season despoil, beyond recovery, these remarkable curiosities, which have requited all the cunning skill of nature thousands of years to prepare".

Another man can marry and make you happy' " (Man in community mixed sex FGD) Furthermore, in men's view, women used cunning skills to outwit their spouses, subtly and gradually eroding the latter's influence and authority while covertly engaging in extramarital relationships.

He was known as the "Little Magician" to his friends (and the "Sly Fox" to his enemies) in recognition of his reputed cunning and skill as a politician.

There is the Warholian logic to the iTunes chart: the artist who appropriates a particular time period with the most cunning and skill feels the freshest.

The difference is that, quite apart from using his own intimidating physique to impressive effect, Bony's game is much more about guile, cunning, subtle skill and intuitive positional sense than Altidore's.

But of course I choose not to believe them.' His wiliness in convincing the world that he had only humanitarian motives in annexing the Congo, in persuading the Belgian government essentially to pay for his purchase and in buying up journalists, including the great explorer Henry Morton Stanley, to promote his cause show both cunning and skill.

They couldn't comprehend my journey from far off lands, left to my own cunning and skill.

And he marvels at Lincoln's cunning media skills, as when he went to The Tribune and corrected newsroom proofs the night of his Cooper Union speech, the pivotal address in his election campaign.

And Odysseus, that god-like man who possessed "a poet's charm for bringing the past to life" through his cunning narrative skills, is always at the centre of the maelstrom: wilful, arrogant, irrepressible, indomitable both as story-teller and man of action.But that indomitability is only part of the cunning truth.