Well, pretty much as we are: wise, cunning, manipulative and very clever too.
Although these portrayals vary considerably, kitsune are generally depicted in accordance with folk stories, as wise, cunning, and powerful beings.
Stalin appears as a wise and cunning strategist who divines the trickery of the allies and warns the chief of Soviet intelligence not to be outfoxed a reversal of the bumbling role assigned him by writers during the Khrushchev period.Moreover, even some of the high‐level Nazis come across as believeable men with complex motives, especially in the final crumbling months of the Third Reich.
She was just a modern ambassador for an ancient tradition of wise women and cunning folk, her powers submerged in yards of tulle and masked by a treacly voice.
It seemed, in fact, as happens with the most felicitous unions, that the virtues of the parents were magnified in their offspring, since, at least in the beginning, they were more powerful and faster racers than their Thessalian mothers, and a good deal wiser and more cunning than black Cam and their other human fathers.
Eliade was also a novelist, but this novel was found in a Bucharest attic in 1986 (the year of his death), a circumstance so fitting – his narrator is fond of his own attic room, where he composes his diary – that I almost suspect some fabrication at work, as if the book were not by a 17-year-old but had been contrived by a much older, wiser and more cunning author.
He is sometimes, like Odysseus, cunning and wise in counsel, but a hero is not usually given to much subtlety.
I'd just rather people weren't hoodwinked by the messages out there, which are getting more cunning as we wise up".
"We have to look for smart ways to bring in new members".Bringing Venezuela certainly was smart in the sense of cunning rather than wise.
The cunning insects are wise to conventional ant poisons, he adds.
Even then, there's no guarantee the wise owls won't use all that cunning for their own purposes.
