Sentence examples for the cunning of from inspiring English sources
Hegel calls this the "cunning of Reason".
Such is the cunning of political history.
Well, here is the cunning of Libby's ploy.
Too often this rough-and-ready recycling destroys the force, and the cunning, of the "Iliad".
There is no doubting the cunning of the director, Niels Arden Oplev.
Who can but admire the cunning of an inquiry that exploits our basest craving for revenge?
As a figurative painter, Bacon had the cunning of a Fragonard.
"If all the cunning of Islam is with you, it should be a piece of cake," McGrath said.
He possesses the brutishness of Stalin, the cunning of Napoleon and the guerrilla swagger of a Gaddafi or Saddam.
There's a kind of canniness to her, what Hegel calls 'the cunning of reason' — insofar as there is reason in the art world.
But my intellectual hero, Georg Hegel, had a great phrase to sum up a situation such as this: He emphasized 'the cunning of history.' That is, you just never know what twists and turns history will take, but you have to be ready for any of them, to exploit every possibility.
