Sentences with phrase «less wily»

Wanda Hendrix is a bit young for her role, but the screenwriters early on establish her marriage to her septuagenarian Count (played by Felix Aylmer) and use their relationship to heighten Power's increasing hunger for the waifish creature, and his maturing into a less wily, selfish fox because of true luv and a higher moral calling.
«Their book is less a wily approach to monasticism and self - denial — which is everything I am allergic to — and more a celebration of the yummy things one can eat.»
The quid - pro-quo was merely (strongly) implied in the case of Sheldon Silver, but Dean Skelos was much less wily.

Not exact matches

Caxton's prose may well strike us as courtly, decorous, expansive, big - hearted — rather as if Lancelot from his beloved Morte D'Arthur were regaling ladies with the merry tales of the wily fox and his less witty victims.
But since he's seen as the Treasury's man, he was far less well placed to do so than wily old Pickles.
He's more rigid and less self - aware than Daniel Plainview, the wily oil baron Day - Lewis played in There Will Be Blood, his previous PTA joint.
Sure, he's not aiming for Dr. Wily this time, but his adventure won't be any less difficult or satisfying because of it.
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