Squalid dealings by his poisonous inner circle were exposed to the light of day; yet at the same time he lacks a leader's necessary political cunning.
He wanted to shape a mind-set, to teach violence when necessary, intestinal fortitude, cunning.
A. These new conditions make it necessary to shackle cunning, as in the past we have shackled force.
Wall understands that cunning is necessary, too, when dealing with an obsessive teaser and connoisseur of farce.
But, in recent years, far removed from Arsenal's glory days, Wenger's teams have come to seem twinkly and fussy, lacking the cunning and toughness necessary in moments of crisis.
In a biopolitical regime (i.e., in a regime where power of command, life, production, affects and communication are intertwined and meshed as in a maze), jumps are difficult if not impossible -- in the old politics, things were like this, too, and when there were jumps, sometimes heroic, it was almost always necessary to retreat, covering in cunning institutions a terrain too hastily crossed.
Only one man is cunning enough to do the necessary dirty deed.
"I lack the cunning and the dissimulation," she says, "necessary for a normal affair".
Yet through pure selectorial cunning, Gatland has contrived to indulge his necessary interest in experimentation without throwing caution to the gentle winds blowing in off the Pacific Ocean.
A cunning person never draws more attention to himself than is necessary.
