All the rhetorical groundwork the president has now laid — on Iran, Israel-Palestine, the Muslim world — will come to nothing if high principle is not matched by street-smart cunning and maneuver.
To pull off a heist successfully, so I've heard, you need a combination of smarts, cunning, bravery and stealth, and Ms. Hovanec, who has been responsible for coordinating the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament for Will Shortz since 1993, has all of these qualities in abundance.
But how could she compete with a woman who was so smart and cunning, whom so many men found irresistible?
Milan (Goran Bogdan) for one is keeping the tradition alive, especially in the smart and cunning plan stakes.
December 20 2014 Richard Eyre's new staging of "Le Nozze di Figaro" would seem to be the kind of production — accessible and entertaining, but smart and cunning, too — that Peter Gelb has been praying for these past eight years.
Graeme Swann is No 2 in the world rankings and is an outstanding, smart and cunning spin bowler but he is probably not an authentically great cricketer and he probably knows it.
"The regime that controls this country is very smart and cunning and sly, and he who thinks otherwise is under an illusion and naïve, or it wouldn't have preserved such a large nation in the refrigerator of stillness and subservience for 30 years," wrote Magdy el Gallad in the Feb. 23 issue of the independent daily newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Generations of small and unsquashable girls have internalised the lessons of Sophie and Matilda, to learn that smarts and cunning prevail over force and fury.
According to Donald Trump, Mexico's leaders are smart, sharp and cunning.
Morley Safer, one of the show's first correspondents, compared Don to the great fictional character Bugs Bunny, cunning, smart and always one step ahead of everyone else.
