Sentence examples for was a calculating from inspiring English sources

The 1.4-ton refrigerator-size machine was a calculating monster.

Beneath the Bible-thumping earnestness was a calculating and ambitious pol".

If he was a calculating bastard, she had chosen to be with him.

Mr. Bowman said he pondered the question all night before deciding on Monday morning that Mr. Muhammad was a calculating, ruthless criminal who would kill again if allowed to live.

To the end he was a calculating, tough-minded, pragmatic idealist who deeply believed that America — mistakes like Vietnam and Iraq notwithstanding — is the best hope of the world and has an obligation to fulfill that mission.

With time, Khodorkovsky would be known for his clash with Putin, the ten years he served in a Russian prison, and his political activism from his new home in London — but, back in the mid- and late nineties, he was a calculating and not particularly munificent member of the post-Soviet oligarchy.

This was a calculated move.

For him it was a calculated risk.

The decision was a calculated risk.

"It was a calculated risk," he says.

"Signing Jamie was a calculated risk," Kear smiled.