Sentence examples for sheer cunning from inspiring English sources
"sheer cunning" is a valid and usable phrase in written English
It is an idiom, often used to describe someone's shrewdness or resourcefulness in navigating difficult or tricky situations. For example, you might say: "He outsmarted his opponents through sheer cunning, despite being outnumbered."
The Mill awoke this morning and hatched a plan unparalleled in its sheer cunning.
Drawn by her runaway imagination to investigate crimes that have become part of local legend, Emma uses sheer cunning and devious methods of interrogation to pry information from the colorful characters she finds at well-trafficked spots like the Rainbow Cafe.
We are the public," said Robert James (not his real name, by the way – the sheer cunning of it – in case you are tempted to say hi on Facebook), a smartly turned out, unemployed anarchist in his mid-20s, according to Rob Booth and Marc Vallee's enjoyable account.
There is no doubt that an attack on Iran would be unprecedented in the level of sophistication, planning, and sheer cunning that it would require.
Tony is nothing if not ambitious: soon enough he's seized control of the whole bootlegging racket, through sheer cunning and good ol' fashioned homicide.
Pétanque is thus a game of dexterity and technique, but also of gamesmanship, bad behaviour and sheer animal cunning.
An instinctive and normally unerring sense of political timing combined with sheer animal cunning has enabled him blithely to escape from setbacks and scandals that might well have derailed a lesser politician.
Either you can buy a catalogue, which includes more of both these things than the show (yours for £45), or you can just give yourself up to the clothes and, trying hard not to worry too much about the leather gimp-style masks with which they are so often accessorised, allow yourself to be confounded by their sheer audacity and cunning.
Whatever its intentions, however, the hallmark of the administration hasn't turned out to be Machiavellian cunning but sheer ineptitude.
Da Vinci's Demons Demoralized by the cunning and sheer numbers of their Turkish adversaries, Nico and Zo (Eros Vlahos, Gregg Chillin) turn to an old enemy for support for the Crusade in this new episode.
This son of a Suffolk trawlerman has ruled Formula 1 for nearly 40 years with a combination of astuteness, cunning, sharp practice and sheer intellectual power arguably unmatched across business and sporting worlds.
