Word: cunningest
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...when a word comes to us in its individual character, and starts in us the individual responses, it is great pleasure to us. The American Advertisers have discovered this and some of the cunningest American literature is to be found in advertisements for soap suds for example...
...since Modesty Blaise. Two fliers (Tom Courtenay and Colin Blakeley) crash-land their nuclear weaponry on a mythical Greek island and spend the rest of the film in their Jockey shorts playing peekaboo with the villagers. Backing them up are a squad of sylphish soldiers dressed in mufti: the cunningest white booties, fishnet T shirts, lavender and puce shorts. Backing them up is an inconstant nympho (Candice Bergen) who moves with the natural fluid grace of a hand puppet...
...many centuries, royal patronage was an index to British culture. Eliza beth I learned that "the Italians had the name to be the cunningest," but what Italian paintings the crown acquired were largely sold off by Cromwell though the Restoration Stuarts searched to recover them...
...with the bereaved. Through 96 hours (four days and four nights) the corpse lay in its silk-lined coffin, the head on an embroidered pillow. Solemnly, Mrs. Perry related the deceased's virtues and exploits, beginning with the day in 1913 when she bought him, "the cunningest" French poodle puppy, in San Francisco; tearfully ending with her "dear Phil's" heart attack several months ago, his removal to a nursery adjoining her regal bedroom; his brave struggle for health, aided by veterinaries and a full-time nurse; his decline, his last look, his death. . . . The watchers filed behind...
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