Sentence examples for wily man from inspiring English sources

Yet the wily man remains a force.

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Described by his pursuers as a wily man with survival skills, Mr. Waagner made numerous stops for only a few days at a time, officials said.

But when I'm on the Nes I feel I'm about to run into a tall, handsome, wily man who in his day favored lace collars and a twisty little mustache.

As this wily man (the husky bass Conal Coad, excellent at deadpan comedy) fantasizes about the prospect that his Elisetta (the bright soprano Georgia Jarman ) might marry a count, he goes through states of glee, avarice, determination and anxiety.

"Hotel Rwanda," which was written by Keir Pearson and Terry George, who also directed, is the true story of a brave and wily man who never made a speech or indulged an instant of stiff-backed righteousness.

Chess is a metaphor as well for the intricate, often lethal gamesmanship that passes for political give and take in this nation that respects only strong, brilliant and wily men as its leaders.

In a lively new book, After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Party That Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905 (HarperCollins, $26), author Patricia Beard tells how this spoiled and callow youth became the fall guy for older, wilier men bent on wresting away control of Equitable's huge moneybag.

Me, I'm the wily old man.

He is a wily, cynical man, and well briefed.

Prosecutors portrayed Ms. Sumasar as a single mother duped by a wily confidence man intent on malicious vengeance.