Word: cunningness
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Miss Redgrave's Mary is regal, nervous, passionate, uncertain - a delicate creature in life who becomes indomitable only in death. Miss Jackson's Elizabeth is cunning, complex, intriguing - a monarch whose desire for power is both a motivating force and a tragic flaw, Otherwise, various men of the...
The inaugural speech was the supreme moment in the career of a cunning and able politician who seems to inspire either unqualified adulation or fierce contempt. The scion of a wealthy landowning family and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Oxford University, Bhutto in recent years...
Incredible Cunning. Another way to kill rats is to return to the old poisons. With an almost incredible cunning, though, some rats have learned to let one member of the pack taste the bait. If he dies immediately, the food is ignored.
Arnolphe, fearing those legendary horns of the cuckold, has raised his ward, a lovely, blushing maiden, to be ignorant and totally naive: in other words, to be the perfect male for him. It is the witty, worldly-wise woman, he reasons, who charms the gallant and places the horns on...
Contrasted with the other Allies. Stalin played a shrewd and knowledgeable game. Ulam is at his best when he speculates about the Soviet leader's motives and plans. Only Stalin knew the extent of Russia's weakness. And by exploiting his opponents' fear and guilt, he was able to win...