Sentence examples for so cunning that from inspiring English sources

You sense his identification with the man who, in Ovid's telling, made a labyrinth so cunning that he was almost trapped in it himself.

"We have no choice but to call Speer's writings the most cunning apologia by any leading figure of the Third Reich". The trouble is, it's so cunning that it's mendacity is difficult to swallow in digestible lumps.

Some of his fakes are so cunning that they weren't discovered to be fakes, or his, until long after he was dead, partly because he was remarkably discreet (Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead) and partly because he was a practiced mimic.

"Realism," his byword, describes less his method a talented mélange of cunning and not so cunning, brazen artifices than effects that stupefy the mind as only reality, when it overloads the senses, can.

So cunning, in fact, that it sometimes feels as if we're being duped – that Ishiguro is leading us on an elegant but deliberately dizzying dance rather than a real emotional journey.

Federal agents wired an informer, who proved so cunning a rat that he almost won his stripes as a made man.

They are infected, in short, with a disease so cunning and powerful that they don't even realize they've been hit: the disease of short-termism.

"Realism," his byword, describes less his method — a talented mélange of cunning and not so cunning, brazen artifices — than effects that stupefy the mind as only reality, when it overloads the senses, can.

Indeed, the scheme the thieves devise -- involving simple props like a fire extinguisher and an umbrella -- is so cunning, yet so plausible, that the film was banned in several countries out of fear that it might inspire real robberies.

It is so cunning in its deception that we only see and value the material world of forms.

His whereabouts was unknown, but the possibility that even so cunning a man might recover authority seemed remote.