Sentence examples for wily characters from inspiring English sources

Over the years, Capaldi, a mainstay of U.K.-based TV and film, has popped up in everything from "World War Z" to "Torchwood" and "The Hour," typically playing intelligent, wily characters who don't suffer fools gladly but who also exude a palpable decency.

Wily Characters are renown for their sneakiness.

Being wily in the presence of librarians is highly dangerous, simply because librarians are the arch enemies of all wily characters.

He was a rugged defender in his playing days and a wily character as a manager.

"She's such a wily character," Ms. Jones said of Mrs. Warren.

A wily character, he initially refused, saying the deadline was impossible.

Rebecca Ryan makes a charming Margiana and Andrew Mackenzie-Wicks offers a wily character-study of her daft father, the Cadi.

Over five brilliant HBO seasons, The Wire is exemplified by the superbly wily character of anti-hero Omar Little ("It's all in the game, yo!").

The events of April 30th also shed light on the personality of Strauss, a supremely wily character who maintained a lofty position in German music through the Kaiserreich, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, and beyond.

The movie starred the wily character actor Harry Dean Stanton (and his mournful countenance) in the role of Bud, an existential philosopher who happens to make a living repossessing cars for the Helping Hands Acceptance Company in Los Angeles.

Some Arab viewers took particular exception to Amjad's father, a wily character who does not hesitate to cheat his own son out of a few shekels and who has taught his granddaughter that eight plus three equals a Jack.