Sentence examples for exceptional cunning from inspiring English sources
However a chief of exceptional cunning realized that the Humans, although out-numbered, had prevailed through the use of superior tactics, organization, and by magic.
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's rise from poverty-stricken farm boy to become one of the world's most successful drug traffickers who broke out of two maximum-security prisons is often attributed to exceptional cunning and careful planning.
According to veteran Turkish journalist Kadri Gürsel, the credit should go to Erdogan as "the architect of an exceptional tactical victory achieved with Machiavellian cunning".
Like Stalin, too, he had little of the flair or colour of other 20th-century despots, little mental brilliance, less charisma, no redeeming passion or messianic fervour; he was only exceptional in the magnitude of his thuggery, the brutality, opportunism and cunning of the otherwise dull, grey apparatchik.
Broner is an exceptional fighter in the ring with power in either hand, fabulous speed and a cunning eye for an angle.
Spinoza read and admired Velthuysen as a "man of exceptional sincerity of mind," and was thus disconcerted when Velthuysen denounced the TTP as the work of a cunning atheist (Epistles 42 and 43).
Although he praised their "sublime" poetry and claimed that the "Jewish race" contained "imagination, romance, loyalty, probity and humanity in an exceptional degree", he also thought that centuries of persecution had led some Jews to exhibit "avarice, servility, falseness, cunning and the rest".
The Italians' cunning plan?
