Word: cunningness
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The irony is that the social heights to which Crystal aspires operate on a code of ethics no more elevated than hers. These women lie, cheat on their cheating husbands, booze it up and assassinate each other's characters between brunch and bridge. Even while she gives tongue to...
Joyce idolized Ibsen, and the two artists have much in common. Like Joyce, Ibsen lived by "silence, exile and cunning," fleeing Norway to live abroad for 27 years. Both men abandoned their native countries physically and yet were able to repossess and be possessed by them psychically and aesthetically. As...
Caesar was a big man, broad of feature and seemingly clumsy, and his face was unremarkable in repose. Of course, it was almost never in repose, but was forever melting, cracking or erupting into some expression of comic extremity. His body, too, was surprisingly lithe, as if his physical dexterity...
Partly because of Thieu's cunning political footwork, his position today is very strong-much more so than it was three months ago. He has stayed on working terms with the U.S. while tightening his control over the Saigon government. He has also shown that he can stand up...
Vocally, Bennett sounds like a rather reedy clarinet next to the French-horn sound of the older crooners, but he compensates for this with a cunning sense of phrasing that has made him a favorite of many musicians (among those who have happily accompanied him are Count Basic, Woody Herman...