Sentences with phrase «make cunning»

This simple back - and - forth allows you to make to make cunning and malicious plans, with help from The Black Market.

Pick the right moment to make a cunning comment or throw in the occasional sarcasm to bring the attention your way.

These birds» elaborate bowers may make cunning use of geometry.

But he never goes in a straight line (at one point, he wants to give up on the families altogether), and Robert Wieckiewicz, the wonderful Polish theatre actor, makes him a cunning, calculating Everyman, seemingly stolid but with just a touch of the outcast in his makeup.

Director Brad Furman and writer John Romano haven't made a cunning movie.

Not exact matches

They're the ones responsible for using creative, cunning, and savvy interpersonal skills to make the company's product or service known.

Holding on to their old ways while adopting the new manner of making a living, they turned their force and cunning on each other.

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

By all means, defend marriage, invoke the weight of tradition, make all the arguments you can invent with all the passion, compassion, and cunning you can muster.

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

Attenborough aims to persuade first through the detail and intimacy of his account of insect life: the female bumble bee's patient construction of the chamber in which she lays her eggs; the cooperative relationship between African acacias and the ants that make «mansions» in the «bloated and hollow» bases of the tree's protective spines (and sting the muzzles of grazing predators, driving them away); the cunning design of the mole cricket's burrow, which amplifies the male's mating song so that, «on a windless night, he can be heard from nearly half a mile away.»

The historian's obligation to the truth forces us to strive to make these texts intelligible, with all the cunning and serenity that we would wish to associate with a living modern culture.

Enough monkeys got weeded out to make me a member one of the smartest, most lethal, most cunning and survivable species on the planet we rule, I'm not about to reduce my intelligence by assuming some magical space daddy will make my life better if i say its name enough.

He then posed the following question: «What will it do with the signs of Ishmael, a handmaid's child cast away to make room for Isaac, the heir, the desert kingdom of Esau who had his birthright cheated away by the cunning Jacob, or the mission of Cyrus, the pagan king summoned by God to carry out his word which made it possible for Israel to go free?».

Some musical styles, instead of being flexible or neutral, seem quite specialized in character — something made exceptionally clear by novelist Robertson Davies in The Cunning Man, in which the narrator describes his first encounter with plainsong:

W $ ng $ r is such a cunning Liar and a Lord in the art of excuse making!

There is the pleasant cunning of making the wind take us where we want to go, and there are charts to read, with their soundings and buoys and markers, and the tide tables, and the tidal current tables, and the tidal current charts, and knots and splices to learn.

He is fast, skillful, cunning, can make a goal out of nothing, he also looks like a determined player.

He is shrewd and cunning when comes to spending money, or making some extra bucks on player sale.

Apparently being slow and ponderous is actually a cunning way of disguising leadership qualities, organisational skills and being able to master the art of making 3 to 5 yard passes with uncanny accuracy.

The AWL has hit back at Watson, claiming that he is desperate to have Corbyn defeated in Labour's leadership election and accusing him of «low cunning» to try and make it happen.

David Davis's new portrait makes him look like a friendly cartoon detective who fights crime with the help of a fluffy yet cunning dog: pic.twitter.com/zg 0PjjDwqX

It reveals the Prime Minister's cunning masterplan to put everything that he and his predecessor built to fire and the sword, making sure that the party is not simply dented but flattened for a generation, the big tent cut into pieces and burned, the centre ground abandoned to the enemy, and anything of value utterly destroyed.

Nothing about Cameron & Osborne makes me think they're capable of the level of cunning you're hinting at.

After his father's murder by rivals, and lean years of exile subsisting on scavenged food and steppe rats, Temujin began climbing the tribal ladder with a cunning strategy: He paired pragmatic alliance - making with unbridled use of force.

A Brand - new Villain for the Batman Univers: Sin Tzu, cunning master of strategy and martial arts, makes history as the first Batman character to debut in a video game.

Dehaka lives on as one of the last pack leaders thanks to his cunning and will to survive, two qualities that made him a valuable ally to Kerrigan.

Description: Dehaka lives on as one of the last pack leaders thanks to his cunning and will to survive, two qualities that made him a valuable ally to Kerrigan.

Spielberg's strategy was to broaden Walker's cunning simplifications, and in blowing up her plot, Spielberg not only makes its flaws more visible, he also uncovers, beneath the feminist rhetoric, the melodrama at its heart.

Kiarostami adopts a lush visual scheme and almost lighthearted tone that provides levity to a remarkably demanding work, one that's as playfully deceptive and cunning as anything the director has made before.

Released: December 25 Cast: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera Director: Aaron Sorkin Why it's great: Sorkin, the writer of The West Wing, A Few Good Men, and The Social Network, makes his directorial debut with the true story of Molly Bloom, a failed Olympic skier who became one of the most cunning operators of high - stakes, celeb - filled, backroom poker games in the country.

Yet our urge is to try to make sense of them 1) because you can not let down your guard with the cunning McDonagh and 2) because human beings reflexively and instinctively try to make sense of the inexplicable.

Franco is surprisingly good as the film's only wild card, Gator, a jackal - like mix of cunning and cowardice that makes for a good foil for the stalwart Broker to contend with.

Still, the spunky canine makes for a cinematic hero that's extremely easy to root for (even through his more - cunning - than - Kevin - McCallister plan to deal with that unbecoming wolf) and those cougars are bound to emit an «aww» from even the most coldhearted viewer.

Howard can certainly resemble the character's name in some ways; He makes production companies «rich» and he most certainly delivers «ham» but he lacks the «cunning» to be the truly great director that he perceives himself to be.

With its leading man ably supported by Jared Leto (who also won several gongs), Garner and the rest, this took a true - life story full of joy, cunning and sorrow in equal measure, boiled it down to the essentials and made something eminently watchable.

Their tapping into their more feminine - friendly personas makes for great humor and cunning modern century wit.

Alex Garland's Ex Machina made us empathize with the cunning of A.I. AVA as she escaped her creator - captor.

Making China the star of the climax is an obvious yet cunning strategy that clearly paid off.

In the end, it is cunning and manipulation that win the game, but, unfortunately, not everyone makes it out unscathed.

To make the rescue, he must complete a near - impossible mission of killing three tough - as - nails assassins with a cunning leader (Clive Owen).

«Decisions have not been made, but what you may well find is there are fewer support staff within schools and therefore teachers are standing at a photocopier rather than in the classroom,» said Cunning.

It's a cunning way to keep loyal customers and make them even more loyal, while at the same time attracting more but without drastically altering the formula in order to do so.

The new Turbo S handled it with aplomb, its cunning combination of differentials, rear - steering, active suspension and carbon - ceramic brakes made it a joy to hustle around.

The connection between the two halves of Thunderstruck feel a little strained; while H.H. Holmes committed his murders against the backdrop of the World's Fair, there are years between Marconi inventing the wireless and Crippin's undoing at the hands of this cunning new invention - years that require Larson to jump back and forwards in time which makes for a slightly awkward read.

Created, it seems, for mischief, the vividly colored Somali with her full, plumed tail and vixen - like cunning make her more fox than feline.

I could have made up something elaborate, a cunning lie, but the simple truth is that the past few weeks have been a little tough for me, leading to something that I had always assumed was a bit of a myth: writers block.

It must make the player feel clever, sly, cunning, and powerful.

And to make it, you'll need to be cunning, careful, smart and vicious.

Zeal, Cunning, and Authority make a return from previous historical titles, and as you invest in those, you will be able to wage battles at night without reinforcing armies or increase the size of your general's bodyguard contingent, for example.