Far from being instinct-driven dunces held back by a three-second memory, fish were cunning, manipulative, cultured and socially aware. |
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We cannot be exclusionary in our quest for recognition for our armor and cavalry troopers who are in harm's way against a cunning foe. |
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They star as two of the kids in a cunning casting move designed to appeal to the tweenager crowd. |
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In some scenes Bond brazens it out, fists flailing or guns blazing, to pick off the enemy, but most of the time greater cunning is needed. |
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I think he is a man of limited intelligence, considerable low cunning, self-esteem born of blinkered privilege and a mean spirit. |
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He acquired a reputation for being bloodthirsty and ruthless, to go with his reputation for cunning. |
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Azmoth the Clever, a master at leadership and full of cunning, was the scouting and skirmishing army for the One. |
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Come next year these unexceptional throwbacks might have mutated into cunning reinventors. |
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Anthony, while fully deserving his Man Of The Match award, could do with some of his Roman namesake's cunning. |
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Those raised in urban Western understanding of the psychology of the animal kingdom tend to view the fox as a cunning, sly, deceitful animal. |
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Diplomacy as a game values the sly, the cunning, the underhanded, the crafty. |
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She was a rather cunning and sly teenager by nature, accented by her narrow brown eyes and usual smirk. |
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Indian netizens faced with the ban would have to resort to cunning methods to circumvent the block. |
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I'm worried that it's just another covert and cunning way for Labour to try and neuter other parties. |
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His cunning, speed, condition, and endurance can tax the physique and patience of his pursuers to the utmost. |
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Nevertheless, we should at least expect some caprice or cunning from our thieves. |
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Do not play games with me, lovely, for my ferocious wit and cunning is sure to cut you to pieces! |
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The cunning sniper up on the hill in the first mission certainly had my number. |
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I hereby make a vow, not to cheat, but to win quizzes here on in on my wit and intelligence alone, forbearing all use of my fox-like cunning. |
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But increasingly it seems that there is no plan of any kind, cunning or otherwise. |
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I feared her cunning, her strength, the way she could manipulate me like clay in ceramics class. |
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You have to react to the opponent's move, try to outguess his next move, and surprise him with a cunning countering action. |
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But the serpent was as subtle and cunning as ever, more than any other beast who dwelt within the garden which the Gods had made. |
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His expression smoothly dispensed of his surprise and assumed a look of cunning which Em didn't like overmuch. |
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Use all of your skill and cunning to beat your opponents in a breathtaking game of Cheat! |
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The Germans, being as cunning and devious as they are known to be, soon developed the 9mm Parabellum for their Luger military pistol. |
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Brahmins began to be described as cunning, parasitic exploiters and authors of the iniquitous caste system. |
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Australia had native predators of its own, but foxes hunt in a different and more cunning way and have a broad and adaptable diet. |
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It was not evil, but cunning and cold, and Jaro new, with ice-cold certainty, that if he saw it in the eye, his soul would be shattered. |
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He thought me a child, a helpless, useless creature, incapable of cunning and deception of any breed. |
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The catalyst for the plot and exploration of these ideas is a cunning plan one of the trio comes up with. |
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Imaginative and cunning, his dark visions are compulsively watchable, if not exactly pleasant. |
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They lazily, but with intense, concentrated cunning, manipulate the lives of those around them for their own ends. |
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Neither of us could summon up the interest even to attempt concocting a cunning plan for our next assault on a region of France. |
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From Wingate, Dayan learned the importance of surprise, cunning, compassion and the instillation of fear. |
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They will send hunters to trap me or bring me down, but all will fall to my clever traps and animal cunning. |
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We reckon it's nothing more than a cunning ploy to get more stuff written about the band. |
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My opponent became increasingly frustrated by my beginner's luck and masterminded a cunning ploy to level the scores. |
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It was obviously a cunning ploy to secure column inches for a particular company. |
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The Geordies love him, opponents loathe him but he's crafty, cunning and still top class. |
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He pieces together the history behind the crafty tricks and cunning plans of conflict. |
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There they have been disguised in many cunning ways, for example inside garden sheds. |
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His portrayal of the cruelly cunning main character is what ultimately drives the film. |
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He is full of charm when he gets his way, full of menace when he does not, unscrupulous, cunning and deceitful. |
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First, it has to be said that the game scenario is a very cunning one, cleverly designed to lead the unsuspecting player astray. |
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She's a cunning manipulator one moment, an adorably guileless charmer the next, one who tosses off winsome smiles like strike-zone fastballs. |
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The truth is, though, sometimes spies really do resort to cunning disguises and hidden cameras. |
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He was supposedly a cunning manipulator who lured his adversary into a fatal trap. |
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Now, even if these are just sneaky sites by cunning marketers, they're working. |
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The lies he fed me to achieve this were cunning and elaborate, and indeed, I was fooled. |
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Observations suggest they try a cunning psychological ploy to prevent their partner fleeing the nest. |
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Fortunately, in an effort to cheer myself up, I've devised a fiendish and cunning plan to turn myself into a local celebrity. |
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He subsequently discovers the whereabouts of the photograph by a cunning ruse. |
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Tom however, through cunning reasoning skills, is able to get what he needs. |
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It's a cunning skill, even more so as you can reverse the stroke in order to go backwards. |
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A little cunning skill is obviously useful, and luck is a vital ingredient that I like to enjoy in large measure. |
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Today's aggressor is cunning, ingenious, pragmatic, and at the same time not limited by any moral constraints. |
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This year the ingenious Councillor has thought up a cunning plan that will see the town's streets swept clean of dog dirt. |
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That's right, not only is it my birthday today but by a piece of cunning design today is also the day we complete on our new home. |
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He is a very ingenious and cunning writer and it's fun to see him skewer the targets he aims for with acerbic wit and intelligence. |
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More than once he bailed his master out of dangerous situation not by using force, but cunning tricks. |
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If they had any skills other than devious animal cunning, they would have looked closer at the boy. |
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This was their big chance, so why not employ a bit of cunning to achieve it? |
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Imagine the tenacity, the motor skills, the sheer reptile cunning involved. |
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She seemed so innocent, her previous deviousness and cunning gone in a flash. |
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She showed no weakness, instead attaining her goals through cunning, skill, and brutality. |
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Only with the cunning of the fox can you extricate yourself from these grim precincts. |
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The ward bosses' unanticipated about-face was not motivated by conversion but cunning and deceit that cynically betrayed public trust. |
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These are two young bucks full of guile and cunning, mobile and versatile in the modern fashion and eager to wreak havoc with Dutch organisation. |
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The audience is tempted to appropriate the position within the play it believes possesses the most cunning and insight into the play itself. |
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Rommel was supposed to have gained victory over the British through his superior military skills and cunning. |
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His eyes showed an intelligence and cunning totally at odds with his grandfatherly appearance. |
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On the other hand, no computer could match human cunning, which was different from mere intelligence. |
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Perhaps you will forgive me replying to the contention that animal cunning will be overtaken by human ingenuity. |
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The monk's legendary alter ego was a rebel against his feudal leaders, fighting with supernatural strength, cunning, and skills. |
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His pale blue eyes, sparkling with intelligence and cunning, caught my gaze and held it steadily. |
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She loathes cunningness, and thinks a cunning person is definitely dishonest. |
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She easily captures this grasping floozy, with just a curl of her bee-stung lips and her eyes alternately vacant and cunning. |
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This results in a personality which is cunning and devious, and refuses to grow up and take responsibility for itself. |
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They can be cunning and devious, but overall goblins are not very intelligent creatures. |
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The couple are full of praise for the courageous cat who has all the cunning of a guard dog. |
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The London Underground system finds ever more cunning ways to make itself disagreeable to the sorry traveller. |
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Either way, it would clearly take all of the cunning and guile of an evil criminal mastermind to penetrate such online defences. |
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They seem to have got some grim kick out out of their cunning, duplicity, guile and secrecy. |
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As always, the key to success in this business lies in the cunning use of guile. |
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Being able to think and reason the survival of the fittest wasn't just down to strength but also wits, guile and cunning. |
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Both efforts seem like cunning attempts to fob off used goods on a gullible reading public. |
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Genetic endowments may be responsible for native intelligence, tenacity, cunning and will. |
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Those who excel in this struggle distinguish themselves through nothing more exotic than boundless cunning and ruthlessness. |
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Both are cunning predators that can evade any attempts of capture or extinction. |
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You'll dislike this show while watching it, but an hour later you'll be dumbfounded by its cunning. |
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To bring us exclusives, documentary film-makers, like journalists, depend on a mixture of luck and cunning. |
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After all, when it comes to cunning stunts, we may have a natural advantage. |
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Houdini relied on great skill, low cunning, and keeping tiny metal picklocks concealed about his person. |
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The friend and I both have the same cunning plan, and liberate some of the cups for drinks. |
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Oh well what a cunning plan and who do you think that it is that unintentionally ruins the plan for him? |
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His face has a slightly rakish quality to it, his eyes gleaming with charm, and cunning. |
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Akin to an artist to his canvas, he plays with an adroit cunning that is matchless to his peers. |
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I rather think he was hoping to be able to foil their wicked searches with cunning legal hacks and so on. |
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I had no idea such cunning and wily interrogation techniques were still permitted in the Western world. |
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Similarly, representations of the loyal house slave contrasted with representations of the field slaves as cunning and rebellious. |
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However, the cunning female kept dodging them, taking temporary refuge in the grounds of Fermoy Soccer Club. |
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She looked so cunning with her dark green cloak setting off her green eyes. |
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A zombified society, passively allowing itself to be hypnotised by every cunning conman with a used monster to sell. |
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Far from a road to Damascus moment, the agreement was rather a modus vivendi by cunning, ruthless political operators. |
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We loosed off a few shots at the various damaged crockery I had scavenged and then I thought I would try a cunning scheme. |
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The sheep are cunning and will not be worked by sheep dogs, loppies, leathernecks or rouseabouts. |
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The Liberal Party has always been a mix of idealism, pragmatism, opportunism and low cunning. |
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He was the personification of the kind of low cunning to which Nixon himself aspired but could never quite achieve. |
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But in the end he lacked the sagacity or the low cunning to do the one thing necessary. |
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Gabriel often relied more upon cunning and tactical exploitation than raw power which the others seemed to possess. |
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Wrong is correct in emphasizing how Mobutu, the cunning Machiavellian prince, managed to acquire considerable outside help. |
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Most of them, with Machiavellian cunning, were refusing to answer their telephones. |
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It would seem a shame to turn down such a cunning manoeuvre without a compelling need. |
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But, for Homer, there is a calculated pun on words too, because his hero is a cunning schemer. |
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Emerald was a cunning, quick, but brutal girl with a temper as bad as tempers come. |
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My opponent became increasingly frustrated by my beginners luck and masterminded a cunning ploy to level the scores. |
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Getting a good start was imperative to finish in the top 10 and this meant some cunning seamanship around the start boat to ensure a clean start. |
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With a few cunning camera tricks and makeup, he literally becomes a paralyzed man, both of body and of heart. |
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We also tried formulating a cunning plan to discourage a girl who's after him and needs to know she's barking up the wrong tree. |
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Indian men must shed their moral self-righteousness and acquire a practical sense, a manipulative, this-worldly cunning and aggressiveness. |
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We think they are too thoughtless and laid-back, they think we are cunning and manipulative. |
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His stupidity served his turn on this occasion better than cunning would have done. |
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These cunning warriors are trained from birth to hunt, track and trap the most dangerous beasts in the wild. |
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I'd lined up other discs just in case it, in fact, turned out to be Scandinavian doom metal or a cunning front for an area smooth jazz combo. |
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I'm very suspicious of websites that confront you with bells and whistles and all manner of cunning design. |
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She was a cunning old besom and had seen instantly through Janet and my efforts to be professional and pleasant. |
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But caution must be adopted that nobody underestimates the treacherousness, cunning, craftiness and the ruthlessness of the regime. |
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It is only because of his cunning tricks that my mother agreed to help him. |
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But this is simply a cunning trick to make you forget that you're over-paying for this protection! |
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The most effective move known to womankind involves stimulating three erogenous zones with one cunning hand trick. |
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So our concern is not to answer the relativist by some cunning intellectual or metaphysical trick. |
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There is a very cunning trick to the site, but it took me some time to spot what it was. |
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As the sigil of House Tyrell is a rose, the sobriquet is a play on her cunning and prickliness. |
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Still, spacey endows Frank with a reptilian intelligence, a cunning that gives him an edge over everyone he encounters. |
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But can the governments really have been to blame for inducing irrational exuberance in the bidders through the fiendishly cunning auction processes they devised? |
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Although good ethics exist in the profession of law, nevertheless the profession is not without the unscrupulous cunning, and designing fellow members. |
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The emergent self is protean, shifting, cunning, humorous, unencumbered, sometimes angry, but equally capable of accepting its own absurdity and inconsequentiality. |
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Her early work gave way to more chilling visions that echoed fairy tale evils, sinister forests, cunning wolves, and grandmothers ready to eat you. |
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Police say he was manipulative, dishonest, cunning and intimidating. |
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Switching up sexual orientation is a cunning way of compensating for flagging sales and aging characters. |
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Portrayed as having a good degree of street smarts, cunning Carver seems to have played along in the interest of getting ahead. |
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Ider, upon learning of the threat of Kerridac's army, sealed his men into his fortress, which cunning construction and placement of manpower then made nearly unbreachable. |
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In the coal-fired kitchen, you'll learn the cunning ways that mothers bulked out mince pies with apple and carrot, and baked Christmas cakes in the shape of Anderson shelters. |
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The directness of the message, which is somewhat bluntly conveyed, is a somewhat disappointing end to an extraordinary novel that is full of subtlety and cunning. |
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The association of the fox with the devil through shared vices is carried forward to cumulate in the portrayal of the Jesuit as a devilish, vicious and cunning character. |
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History is replete with instances of misguided leaders believing they were statesmen and entering into parleys and talks with intractable and cunning enemies. |
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What was important, Jordan told Irons, was to convey the man's cunning intelligence and steely resolve. |
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His methods are crafty and cunning, he is the master deceiver. |
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Thus far, she had failed to show him either skill or cunning. |
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All it takes is a preternatural sense of musical trends and history, a cunning knack for timing, and the willingness to completely reinvent yourself. |
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One can only presume, therefore, that all the tactical blunders and propaganda goofs which have characterised events so far were all part of this cunning plan to begin with. |
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I listened intently, for he was right, his plans were very cunning. |
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He's otherwise dull, demonstrating few signs of intelligence or cunning. |
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The latter confronts Wilde with the logic and cunning of his profession. |
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Even more cunning, some of the gorillas pretend to be tranquilized. |
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Pleasure turns to horror when the realize that they have walked into a cunning trap, where the harder they try to run, the worse their predicament. |
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Cleopatra Thea of Syria was reputed to be far more beautiful and cunning than Cleopatra VII, yet she is always overlooked in favour of her descendant! |
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At all levels, cunning teachers allied with overbearing students. |
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Its surprisingly short length is a cunning trick, since this tantalizing opening leaves you sitting on the edge of your seat wanting to hear a few more snippets. |
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This involves cunning compression strategies that throw out inessential data and crams the essentials onto tape using a head that rotates at 9000 rpm. |
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But Daniel Day-Lewis is splendid as Lincoln, and Sally Field almost as good as the cunning, half-mad Mary. |
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Unfortunately, the laptop didn't fall for their cunning ruse. |
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The first embraces trickery and cunning, the second embraces manipulation and deception, with no lie being too great, no friendship not worth betraying. |
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Reluctant to muzzle her guest directly, Ross hatched a cunning plan. |
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You've been tricked, the defamation of this cunning flower tricked you. |
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The Dead Dog was back, only this one barked and yapped for an hour as it tried and failed to make the cunning old bull make a mistake and stray into the stunning pen. |
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Of course, there is the catch that Nancy has always been a bit more cunning and self-centered than Piper. |
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Here he personifies folk cunning, good humour and common sense. |
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What remains is a traditional case of a national paranoia being manipulated by a cunning business establishment to protect its entrenched interests. |
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What he may lack in finesse or cunning, he makes up for in raw firepower. |
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But the longer the half wore on the sense a tad more craft, guile or cunning was needed to break through the formidable and sizeable Shrewsbury defence grew and grew. |
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And while the common law judges, with the prestige, wealth and cunning of the national government behind them, were ascendant forces, they had to tread rather softly. |
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Ray was oblivious to my cunning and sly plan, and I kept it that way. |
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Police hunting cunning car thieves who use fishing poles and hooks to get their hands on the keys to high powered cars have made a series of arrests. |
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And to survive you have to negotiate it with all the cunning of a fox. |
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There are the capricious gusts of sea wind that sweep in unsuspectingly, the cunning bunkers, the enigmatic kicks and bounces, the blatantly tormenting results. |
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This braggart weaves astonishing tales of cunning and will while stalking game, and even more preposterous stories of superhuman feats of boozing. |
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Even though she doesn't invent what she does, she has the cunning and intelligence to pick up on other people's style so immediately that it's like she thought of it. |
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Entertaining used to require intelligence or a measure of wit or, at least, peasant cunning. |
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And he makes me think, well, this is one of the ways in which conservatives are cleverer and more cunning than liberals. |
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And it is, say those familiar with previous inspections, a plodding, unglamorous business involving diplomacy, boring leg work, cunning and much analysis. |
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Locating the center of mass at the optical center with the requisite accuracy, however, involves both care and experimental cunning. |
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I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island. |
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An obvious choice to endorse ChapStick, Mr. Smith knows that ladies love a cunning linguist and a moist mouth. |
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And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work. |
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This features a cunning blend of pop vocal harmonic construction and flailsome, fringe-rock accompaniment. |
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There are yet one or two instances of this cunning latrociny which occurs to us as too rich not be noted. |
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To a lesser extent, Wicca also drew upon folk magic and the practices of cunning folk. |
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In England, the provision of this curative magic was the job of a witch doctor, also known as a cunning man, white witch, or wise man. |
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Operating out of Jamaica, he carried on a war against Spanish interests in the region, often using cunning tactics. |
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These developed the character of the stage Scot, often a clown, but cunning and loyal. |
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The cunning Fox is commonly found in Native American mythology, where it is portrayed as an almost constant companion to Coyote. |
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Indeed at this very moment he's slipped away with the utmost cunning into a form that's most perplexing to investigate. |
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Al-Zawahri, an Egyptian-born surgeon, has been credited with bringing tactical and organisational cunning to al-Qaida. |
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Brilliantly, the toilet wasn't actually fixed to the floor, like some kind of cunning booby-trap for the weary contortionist defecator. |
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Perhaps this isn't a cunning strategy, but the failure to form one. |
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So fruity has connotations of sweetness, liquid of runniness, and courageous, apparently, of cunning. |
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A cunning machine politician and businessman, who had never even attended any protest of that kind. |
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This is where you can outsmart the regime with cunning patience. |
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But he is, looming large as a shrimpy, gimpy psycho with oversize plans and the cunning to execute them. |
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He was squatting on the ground like a blackfellow, quiet and still and cunning. |
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Even my Judy, a snuggly little snoozer of a cat, could be quite cunning when confronted with a carrier and a trip to the vet. |
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Plus getting supermarkets to reduce their cunning ploys to sell high-fat and high mark-up products like sweets at the till. |
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If you are cajoled by the cunning arguments of a trumpeter of heresy, or the praises of a puritanic old woman, is not that womanish? |
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The Anansi is a wily, multifaced creature who survives by trickery and cunning, alternately infuriating and tickling his followers. |
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This could explain why psychopathic individuals can be callous and socially cunning at the same time. |
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Read it twice, and you'll discover that Langer, unlike his unworldly protagonist, is a subtly cunning foreshadower of plot and theme. |
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But not, gentle and couth reader, merely a cunning old hack's device to grab your attention. |
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I always suspected he was being wound up to do something for 'racing's benefit' by more cunning folk who kept a lower profile. |
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Witchcraft needs to be distinguished from sorcery and the white magic of the cunning folk. |
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Once, the author used to share her office with a cunning woman who used to cover the wall space behind her desk with pictures of fluffy kittens. |
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In Cromwellian England, Nell is the granddaughter of the village healing woman, called a cunning woman. |
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SadieKing is a sexy, powerful and cunning woman who kno ws what she wants and makes sure she gets it,'' saidaspokeswoman for the ITV soap. |
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American red foxes tend to be larger than European forms, but according to foxhunters' accounts, they have less cunning, vigour and endurance in the chase than European foxes. |
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But can the agents outsmart a cunning and mean-spirited murderer? |
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Full of cunning folk with a thirst for the dark arts, Slytherin are bitter foes of Harry's house, Gryffindor, who are renowned for their daring and bravery. |
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Here is a little country girl that is very cunning, that makes her use of being young and unbred, and outdoes the ensnarers, who are almost twice her age. |
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She is a very cunning woman and she knows exactly what she is doing. |
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Mad and fantastic execution, Engaging and redeeming of himself With such a careless force and forceless care As if that luck, in very sport of cunning, Bade him win all. |
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Bold and bolshie, brash, cunning and cautious Whilst craftily creeping on bloated belly to the raucous Blackbird greedily feeding on the worm-holed lawn. |
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Compared with the paparazzi of today, who ignore the underclass even as they cater to it, his work represents an authentic, cunning view from beneath. |
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Maldor may been the least powerful of Zokar's apprentices, but he possesses a cunning intellect, and in a wizardless world his abilities were suddenly formidable. |
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Yermak is typically described as brutal, cunning, and daring. |
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