Sentence examples for only a cunning from inspiring English sources

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Only a "cunning charlatan" with no magical ability responds.

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On the big screen, those taking human form often now do so only as a cunning means of disguising their actual fantasticality.

Not only can a cunning person lie to other people - she can also lie to herself.

Putin is a poor economic manager but a cunning politician.

Of the scores of playwrights who caught the new Off Broadway wave, only a few had the craft and the cunning to travel beyond it.

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf, and we ought to be equally against both..

I used a cunning and recondite technique known only to experienced sleuths: typing "40%" in the search bar at the top of the page.

And when it comes to light that each woman was a victim of her own worst nightmare (the cobra bite was quite nasty), he knows he is dealing with a killer who is not only cunning but exceedingly cruel.

A bit of cunning trickery that only a complete idiot would dream up should see me home".

As Roland Barthes said, and I use this quote only to sound smart, "The photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity".

Unlike some designers, his fashion is not just about presenting a fantasy of a certain lifestyle, they actually require one to live it: it is difficult to imagine where else one could wear a long dip-dyed chiffon gown, slashed up the front and with only some cunning knots and twists maintaining one's modesty, other than on a yacht party in Cannes.

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