Lord Mandelson's connotations of scandal and over-cunning faded during his long exile in Brussels; but he still carries an electorally useful whiff of steel and success.
This smile, mostly absent from Janacek's two later operas, "The Makropulos Case" and the harrowing "From the House of the Dead," hovers over "The Cunning Little Vixen".
Sometimes there was concern over the existence of "cunning men and women" with inherited knowledge based on a cosmology incompatible with the new Protestantism.
ALL tyrannies are virtuoso displays over many years of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.
In the fallow first half Tuesday, it was Robinho who most imaginatively tried to penetrate North Korea's defense with his cunning step-over moves and a quick spin maneuver that forced a save on a hard rolling shot.
Crewe were vibrant from the kick-off and the opening strike, from a move engineered at Arsenal's London Colney training ground during the team's final preparations for the clash, was a treat: Byron Moore's low corner was aimed at Harry Davis, whose cunning step-over allowed his captain, Murphy, arriving behind him, to sweep the ball beautifully into the top corner.
HITMAN: CODENAME 47 -- This tactical, problem-solving game emphasizes cunning over carnage.
It was only then that she took Nigel Farage to task over that vile, cunning Breaking Point poster, asking the former Ukip leader if it was racist.
Eve, who was naked, disobedient and all powerful over Adam, her cunning ways led him to eat from the forbidden fruit, which resulted in man's fall from Grace and God.
But machines and rails don't yield to cunning — they can be won over only by pure goodness — and you can't afford to wound them, because they don't heal.
