cunning

In exterior he resembled a butcher in a poor neighbourhood, and his eyes had a look of sleepy cunning.

The man must be designing and cunning, wily and deceitful, a thief and a robber, overreaching the enemy at every point.

He had never been hunted by a bloodhound nor had he ever seen that brute's unerring instinct baffled by human cunning.

They watched the seller' s expression, trying to understand his cunning or find the defects of the animal.

A look of cunning came into her eyes.

Back at our desks come Tuesday, sunburned and a bit disoriented, we flash a cunning grin when a co-worker asks, "How was your weekend? "

You could try being sneaky and setting your son up on a "blind date" with your newly hired man servant, but you need not be so cunning.

The red fox's resourcefulness has earned it a legendary reputation for intelligence and cunning.

The cunning female moneylender suggested that they let Providence decide the matter.

he fashioned in the depths of the sea a throne of cunning device , which he sent to his mother.

He was a fully developed John Bull of the outrageous type--with a huge beak of a nose, cunning eyes, and a yard-long chin.

And this the more surprised me, for I thought he had never shown himself so cunning as he did then.

Can even weapons, cunning, and martial arts madness prove to be enough to let someone survive?

That's a cunning remark but you miss the beauty of that story if you don't see that truth is not to be sought after.

His face opened suddenly, as if lighted with simplicity, as when a flower opens out of the cunning bud.

We enter the realm of cunning will, stubbornly determined to turn the forces of the world to its own advantages.

The little girl is an artful dodger; she can get anything she wants from her parents by her cunning talk.

Wolf is too cunning, but for a while two wolves have been hacked to death, the animal deception to how much? Only give them increased humor.

In the end, his entrepreneurial friends' cunning failed to protect him from the consequences of his own relative innocence.

I am like the cat plying on the egress, trying to seizing this cunning mouse even though out of reach now.

Verily many things are wondrous, and haply tales decked out with cunning fables beyond the truth make false men's speech concerning them.

At first glance it may look like a fearsome snake but this rearing creature is actually a small caterpillar with a cunning means of defence.

Whether it is a cunning piece of revenge or not, I don't know, but at any rate Marlowe is paying Carl back in good coin.

It came toward us slowly and patiently, like some enormous, cunning, and murderous beast, ready to devour, impossible to escape.

But he gave no sign. He became immensely wary, for he was wise with knowledge of the low cunning and foul vileness of his kind.

Lilith, cunning as the temptress demoness was, found a way to return to Sanctuary and continued her efforts.

A cunning strategist, Swain was decorated after every battle he fought, regularly hobbling in contemplation at the front of the assault.

Peter seems to have set a cunning trap for you.

They possessed a large share of that singular cunning which characterizes this form of dementia.

I have been cunning and purposeful in possessing, and with that same energy I can now begin to inquire into the freedom of the mind.

Thinking optimistically, it is just possible that all this flimflam is actually a cunning plan to scuttle the shuttle once and for all.

The tribe's elders are renowned as cunning and merciless , but they are known for arrogance and ambition just as well.

For players, the factotum class is a cunning wanderer, a jack-of-all-trades who can cope with anything the dungeon throws at him.

By contrast, the Rat, whose year is now ending, is said to be charming and clever but cunning and selfish.

Will Haller's legal cunning be enough to keep readers coming back for more, or will they tire of his cynicism?

Her words were said with no appearance of cunning or deceit, but with an unsuspicious frankness that BORE the impress of truth.

Love is not of the mind, it is wholly independent of thought with its cunning calculations, its self-protective demands and reactions.

We used to hunt bush meat together as kids, huh? Baboons, they were the hardest to catch. They're. . . They're cunning. Cunning creatures.

Shadow Lord cubs regale their tribal leaders openly as proud, dignified, cunning and aloof. No doubt because they fear them so much.

President: Fast and cunning of his words, together with the popular, fashionable and unique taste of the dissemination of dress.

Of their wisdom I cannot speak, but they do not lack for cunning.

While there may be a cunning plan to release this beer in good time, we worry about the longevity of these thirsty folks.

More than any other tribe, the Red Talons decide their hierarchy by strength, cunning and endurance .

Her mouth fell into a deepness, into a look of unconscious cunning.

But was this low-key outing to Yao Ji Stewed Liver just a PR stunt, or a cunning political attack on China's currency regime?

It was such a cunning animal that it definitely was werewolf!

There was a glimmer of cupidity in those small , cunning eyes of his .

Faced with such fierce cunning of metamorphosis, the young Jackie is able to courage, to regain confidence?

All this smacks of a desperate, if cunning, gamble.

It is a gripping tale of high geopolitics and low cunning, and it is all about who gets to sit where.

"Now, Marmee, that is very cunning of you to turn our own stories against us, and give us a sermon instead of a romance! " cried Meg.

Dai Li was a natural for the job: he was the classic rise from obscurity to great power through cunning, intelligence, and deviousness.

That they weren't is more a tribute to cunning diplomacy, bribes, and the fact that some local princeling was always willing to cut a deal.

Yes, the former Spurs man can hold the ball up, can pick a pass, has outrageous skill and provides tremendous cunning.

Sometimes, he was referred to as the One-Eyed Dragon, as, according to Chinese lore, a dragon symbolizes power and cunning.

Whatever facts are adduced to knock them down can also be taken as evidence of the multi-layered cunning of those behind the plots.

In the performance of the details, many of the children cunning trick Nongmozhongcai description of the many-fold .

He was preeminently cunning, and could bide his time with a patience that was nothing less than primitive.

He was on his own ground now, well-trodden with cunning arguments and quotations.

But what I am calling the cunning of the reasoner is there to make us aware of an essential dimension, which one has to be careful about.

Their country does not appear that the wording of evil, such as: cheating, suspicion, cunning, and so like the word.

'We all know you too well, ' said the birds when they had heard him. 'You are full of cunning and you are ungrateful.

Black is a cunning man, but he has finally become a victim of his own scheming.

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.

I know we had a nice boost over the last couple of days, but elections are cunning things.

The mind is too subtle, cunning and restless to be controlled and made still.

He is so cunning that nobody wants to make friends with him.

and if he read little, he had need have more cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.

Diaoyu Islands are China's, this lack of self-confidence through the cunning you can be best reflected, and also that nonsense?

Power-hungry and cunning, Ventress took great delight in toying with her victims before she killed them.

Cunning words, foul language, and philistine habits must be avoided at all costs.

Dont think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget otherMens: A cunning Man is over match'S by a cunning Man and aHalf.

No, if Barcelona are going to play football of that quality, English football needs a cunning plan.

Perhaps your hand is recovering some of its old cunning momentarily lost through long lack of practice.

The cunning orange sheath with the pleated waist that she wore to receive the heir to the Japanese throne?

Somehow curious heart it continued to urge on, I'm going to take risks, and so I will visit through as seen, you see the cunning.

Locals swap stories of cunning borrowers who buy second homes for a song before deliberately defaulting on their first mortgages.

They would be fantastically strong and possess superior intelligence, cunning and intuition.

Subsequently, honest and good Aladdin and cunning and greed of prime minister cheat to have boundless mana absolute being light.

but whether the damage is inflicted by a cunning ex-wife or a blow delivered by the object of our affection.

For Kasporio the Cunning, ten thousand dragons. The same for Inkpots, whose true name appeared to be Tybero Istarion.

A raccoon dog; a cunning animal. A small greyish-brown animal with black markings on its face and its thick furry tail.

Good-natured, confiding, and forgiving AS I had been, I became revengeful, cunning, and wicked, or rather, immovable AS fate.

The cunning thief stole the money out of the man's pocket.

Talk only about what you are sure of. Do not use cunning or flowery words.

How far does this go whose devices, in short, means of navigating he gives us: exile, silence, cunning?

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Even so, Mr Coulson's old publication stands out, routinely crushing rivals with a blend of hard work, money and cunning.

the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

Want to be a good man, not to offend people, is essentially a cunning man, useless people.

Their cunning and skill puts them in control of the battlefield and lets them minimize the onslaught of their enemies.

Setup prices may vary as I search for someone with a cunning vision for the task.

If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.

Murdoch fulfilled a long-held ambition to own The Wall Street Journal after making a stunning, cunning, $5 billion offer for Dow Jones &Co.

His countenance, I thought, were a mingled expression of low cunning and perplexity.

Since joining the race for president she has exhibited a flair for organisation and a political cunning above the ordinary.

Man worships thought, admires its subtleties, its cunning, its violence, its cruelties for a cause.

So sweet was her voice that he forgot his nets and his cunning, and had no care of his craft.

The Parisian police, so much extolled FOR acumen, are cunning, but no more.

Rhapsody in blur, a school of yellowtail fusiliers (Caesio cunning) swims near the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Rhapsody in blue, a school of yellowtail fusiliers (Caesio cunning) swims near the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

The cunning demon lord, under orders of his master, Sargeras, was plotting the Burning Legion's second invasion of Azeroth.

In it is a great deal of cunning, slight deception, a tinge of hypocrisy, a put-on behaviour.

Beijing has consistently rejected that compromise, portraying the Dalai Lama as a cunning master of double-speak.

The devil was quite satisfied with that, but the cunning peasant had planted turnips.

In a cunning economy, Mr Sauter uses the battery pack itself as the bob of the pendulum.

There are thousands of cunning programmes, and it depends on people if they see through them and do not get controlled in this way.

A creature of great patience and cold-blooded cunning. Someone who kept the town supplied and protected for weeks, even months.

Soft ray of moonlight through the window, cunning and sweet to look at me.

Perhaps the most cunning Disney trick is to take fairy tales in the public domain and reinvent them as corporate property.

Cunning Hollywood script doctors had to approach he European originals not as finished portraits but as sketches in need of coherence.

A cunning psychopath with more than an axe to grind murders the kindly mailman in a small, placid suburban town.

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

The Fox, not unmindful of its ancient cunning, will bite the Boars left hoof and sever it completely from the Boars body.

It was a cunning piece of detective work.

Everyone would laugh and who could still have the strength to run? Very cunning! Hahahaha! ! !

She was very cunning in her witcheries.

however , the plan itself is reliant upon cunning individuals like hardin and mallow to make wise decisions , and capitalize on the trends.

The cunning bit is to turn the maths into an effective card trick.

But in this other matter you have become very cunning, you think one thing and do another.

He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What will he say when he returns?

Our cunning financial sector fabricated such assets wholesale, from those "subprime" ingredients, with results we now see.

And T-bag was cunning enough to escape from Bellick and Bellick was shot by T-bag.

As they work to tease out clues from suspects, they ask their questions with the cunning of poker players.

Some wise warriors employ even stranger methods, like street-savvy trickery, political activism and cunning intrigue.

Their cunning plot is to overturn our government. It is of the thinnest.

Yes, but along that way lie deceit, self-deception, cunning and hypocrisy, unless one is supremely intelligent and constantly aware.

The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.

When you are not total, whenever you are in the head -- thinking, brooding, calculating, cunning, clever-- you are not total.

A cunning animal, to be sure, but in possession of no true self-awareness or sentience.

They're cunning and competitive programmers with shrewd business sense, questionable social skills (about the same age) and tenacious drive.

This cat had often shown himself capable of performing cunning tricks.

And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

Although driven primarily by greed, they exhibit exceptional bravery, cunning and resilience.

was the president sick or cunning?

Those cunning commies in Beijing have studied capitalism and found its Achilles' heel: corporate governance.

If relationship is based on cause it is cunning adaptation, and therefore inevitably leads to another form of dullness.

The world is not so many flowers fall, and cunning, and the world will always be a cool, the simplest and most ruthless.

Runs came at a premium, earned with difficulty through cunning, aggression and patience.

showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.

President Obama's Cairo speech characteristically blended idealism with cunning.

Legend lu's wife is a cunning workman cloud. The "jade crumbs of accounts, she is still the inventor of the umbrella" .

You could kill yourself by too much cunning .

Their communication is natural and direct, without subterfuge or cunning, and every movement has meaning.

The war is over, although strong cunning enemy, or be eliminated.

Grand Admiral Thrawn, a cunning Imperial mastermind, devised a brilliant strategy to retake the Core Worlds.

Some people devise cunning methods to try and obtain a seat; and after a long wait, they finally get a seat.

With a madman's cunning, Makar Alexyevitch eyed the Frenchmen , and lifting the pistol, took aim.

She wore a dress cunning to embrace the shape and flutter loose about her.

And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.

Relying on cunning and guile, were rats kept down the population of humans when they became to numerous.

Miss Moneypenny: You always were a cunning linguist, James.

For example, the cunning Cao cao is usually painted white, while Bao Zheng, an upright official in Song Dynasty, is usually painted black.

His cunning tactics and unerring strategies brought the Empire to the brink of victory five years after the Battle of Endor.

The cunning and resilient Scorpio enjoys sports that test their mettle and require strategy and endurance.

If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

Cunning wolf too, but while two wolves have been killed, and beasts of deception can there?

Detectives who grill suspects in Homicide (TV series)do it with verbal cunning, not strong-arm bullying.

It's a simple question, really, but a cunning one, because the answers are so embarrassingly, voluptuously personal.

But the various cunning tricks devised to enable text entry in different languages will be needed for some years yet.

The largest land-dwelling member of the weasel family, it is strong, tenacious, sharp-toothed and cunning.

The real Chinaman may be cunning, but there is no deep malignity in his cunning.

I see that your cunning associate suppressed my name.

Professor von Senger is a refined and amiable gentleman who would hardly seem an expert in craft and cunning.

He simultaneously seduces and withdraws , flirts and forbids . He is the most cunning , provocative tease in Asian showbiz .

Our present society, whether Western or Eastern, is the result of man's cunning, deceit, greed, ill will, and so on.

They are persevering, ingenious, cunning, and thoroughly versed in the knowledge which their duties seem chiefly to demand.

The crime was unprecedented in its cunning and murderous results.

So I'm telling you that in the pursuit of freedom, you have to be smart. You have to use your cunning.

Can a computer be programmed to be cunning yet fallible?

Housed in it are nearly 30 varieties of stalactites chiseled into every manner of exotic imagery by the cunning labor of nature.

But patching up the monetary union took cunning.

it shows you are a, cunning little fox, and nobody will put faith in you any more.

"It's odd to say a 50-year-old man knows what a 13-year-old wants to read, but I do, " says Mr Cunning-ham.

This makes her vanity, simple and practical, but no lack of cunning, not good at thinking about the problem carefully.

THE Winter Olympics in Turin is the site of brutal combat, dramatic rivalries and tests of cunning and will.

And forget about that cunning cardboard box disguise -- a suspicious box will be properly aerated first.

Although the cunning fox, but the cunning alone will not defeat a powerful opponent.

Seeing the chasers were just women on roller blades, the cunning thief hurriedly headed for the congested Daduhui area.

Getting rid of the plant may be tricky, although scientists do have a cunning plan: import neutered rabbits.

Freedom from guile, cunning, or deceit; simplicity or artlessness .

We are equal in this world, there is no distinction between rich and poor, there is no pure distinction and cunning.

Rescued Xiaomei Maccabi his family's arms cried it, but the cunning criminal suspects who had fled the wind heard.

What most people call intelligence is merely deftness in some technical activity, or cunning in business or political chicanery.

German thought: "Romanians really cunning, he steal a kiss, I secretly beaten, bad luck. "

Yu-ming in Shahe Interchange off after glancing at the taxi's, but still cunning eyes atheism.

However, the high point of this cunning is not where one thinks it is.

This is called ability to accomplish a thing by sheer cunning.

Foxes are often characterized as cunning.

And they shall make the ephod [of] gold, [of] blue, and [of] purple, [of] scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.

The city has its cunning wiles , no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter.

The international capitulationists are likewise pursuing a cunning policy to induce China to surrender.

The tactics it deploys on the media front are as cunning and punchy as those its army has been wielding against Hamas in Gaza.

We might think we're strong and cunning, and if armed with technology, we might put up an impressive fight.

I must be cunning enough to eat up both of them.

Rather than simply being instinct-driven, the group says fish are cunning, manipulative and even cultured.

North Korea had rejected those offers, calling them "cunning" deceits.

Love alone can purge the cunning pursuits from the hidden recesses of the mind.

The polar bear is a cunning predator, hunting seals, walruses, and beluga whales.

The baatezu are more cunning fiends, with orderly hearts.

Megatron's cunning, along with his massive fusion cannon and raspy voice, makes him very cool.

These cunning, malefic beings once served as the demon Kil'jaeden's most trusted lieutenants.

Cunning and vicious people often come to the shop to provoke unwarranted trouble.

It is a game of patience and cunning, but a loss can result in death.

Eyes bright with cunning sweep over his little fleet.

I hold it ever virtue and cunning were endowments greater than nobleness and riches.

May the Swift Wind reveal the cunning things that are hiding in the shadow. . .

I will remember the eight tenets of thieves: cunning, sinister, heartless, cold, concealed, low-key, freedom, moral.

Why did they call him "a cunning old devil" ?

a game of skill, agility, cunning. a game with one simple rule. dodge.

"We must run away if anyone comes, " replied the cunning animal, "so you had better not eat too much. "

a cute kid with pigtails; a cute little apartment; cunning kittens; a cunning baby.

For the cunning and strength of the workingman 's hand.

Would you be wise? Then come closer and I will unlock your inner cunning.

But there are good reasons to be sceptical of Europe's latest cunning plan.

clever, intelligent, cunning smelting n.

No consideration of athletic skills or cunning essays or alumni donors in the family or well-roundedness, etc.

As time goes by, Peter becomes more cunning, he often outwits his competitors.

Everything was nice and quiet in the hen house, till the cunning cobra has penetrated it.

It is not because Anglophones have devised a cunning plot to destroy the euro; they are not that clever.

This beast was massive, and Susanoo had to use cunning to defeat it.

for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful .

If you're keen on stunning kites and cunning stunts, buy a cunning stunning stunt kite.

If you're keen on stunning kite and cunning stunts, buy a cunning stunning stunt kite .

It's a cunning plan, but there are those who doubt people will be willing to stump hard cash for the service.

I have again found that misunderstandings and indolence are perhaps the cause of more disturbance in the world than cunning or malice.

adj. of, pertaining to or like a fox cunning.

Psychologists at the University of Toronto subjected students to a series of cunning experiments (pdf).

By a cunning trick he become heir of the rich widow.

And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes.

Some animals have a great deal of cunning.

I am master of a hundred tricks, and in addition to that I have a sackful of cunning. I feel sorry for you.

To surpass(another)in cleverness or cunning; outsmart.

Simplicity flourished in the golden age , cunning in these days of iron.

He has a smart and cunning look. He looks absolutely perfect in a villain role!

In that sense, they paled next to the female hobgoblins, who were both as cunning as crows and as fierce as bobcats.

Perhaps the most cunning use of an evolutionary algorithm, though, is by Dr Koza himself.

Live entirely in your intellect and in your verbal manipulations, your cunning arguments.

With artful cunning, Nabokov proceeded to reveal a mystery that is only now, 33 years later, on the brink of being solved.

Tales of cunning entrepreneurs abound.

So I can put the second half of my cunning plan into effect.

He's intelligent, treacherous, and cunning.

The funny cunning runner uses his gum gun before sunrise or after sunset.

He has a cunning face. 44. You might be misleading him.

The funny cunning runner uses his gum gun ahead sunrise or after sunset.

The funny cunning runner uses his gum gun ago sunrise or despite sunset.

He was really not so cunning as dull and anxious to get along .

Gillard will have to lead the way with cunning and care.

"I wouldn't be too surprised to find such cunning and devilish ploys being adopted by Shark Bay's bottlenose dolphins. "

The funny cunning runner uses his gum gun my oh my ead sunrise or after sunset.