Sentence examples for looking cunning from inspiring English sources

There's Leno, his eyes hooded in shadow, looking cunning and agile, ready at the quick with a joke that would sound less mean than it was.

So he looked for cunning ways of doing it.

By last week, however, the move no longer looked so cunning.

The map is large enough for you to race about looking for cover or cunning vantage points; but it's small enough to ensure the action is frantic and demanding.

1.24pm: Peter Moore is all in black – he looks like a cunning magician.

What looked like a cunning ambush when first announced in September 2005 has turned into a wearying slog, due to a change in the political Zeitgeist and worries that Porsche cannot manage a growing mountain of debt in such uncertain times.

They have taken up residence in the remaining university geography departments in this country, and have started turning out protégés and publications, promoting a new, more cunning way of looking at maps.

Spin bowlers are cunning fellows, often looking for clues in the batsman's body language (Shane Warne, for example, noticed that Carl Hooper glanced down to his feet first if he was coming down the pitch) but Moeen must be unique in telegraphing his intentions to a bowler in the morning papers.

In his partisan cunning, Mr. McGahn would even bar them from looking into possible violations publicly reported in news media and on the Internet.

Instead, the moment I saw Francis most clearly—his charm, his rage, his cunning and even his regret came later, when no one was looking.

As the British crime fiction writer Julian Symons has said, it "showed clearly that if there are no brand new tricks to be played on the reader, the old ones can be made to look new in sufficiently cunning hands".