Eksempler på cunning

• In the novella, cunning bridges the gap between the deviant and the representative of the law who both indulge in fabulation, artifice, and manipulation.

• Is there, however, a more general contrast between urban (civil, gentle) and rural (coarse, cunning, traditional) ?

• If accused, he can claim to have been duped by a spy even more cunning than himself.

• Settlers, too, came from distant countries, some with an alarming novelty of skill, others with an offensive advantage in cunning.

• The primary appeal of the case lies in its cunning insistence upon the status quo.

• The religious law legalizes the use of cunning in trading, but forbids depriving people of their property illegally.

• How then would ordinary people go about dealing with the crafty clerks and cunning runners in charge of their cases?

• If they were human, they would become cunning.

• Traditional cunning folk, mostly male and rural, continued to be active down to the early twentieth century.

• Further, the experts and host continuously characterised perpetrators as cunning predators.

• Outwitting squirrels: 101 cunning stratagems to reduce dramatically the egregious misappropriation of seed from your birdfeeder by squirrels.

• The bear brought out bravery or cunning, or revealed cowardice in the tale's central characters, and became a necessary component of the genre.

• The cunning and brute impositions of the colonizers are juxtaposed with the flexibility, and indeed astonishing persistence and durability, of indigenous behaviours, attitudes and symbols, if not always institutions.

• Here's cunning, cunning all round, absolutely.

• Scarcely less heinous were the clients of cunning men and women : to resort to them was idolatrous, superstitious, and tantamount to making a tacit pact with the archfiend.