Word: cunningness
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Of their planned doubles squash match against the Maslands, the Polskys are feeling very confident. "We are clearly the superior athletes," George says. "We're going to use our ESP and cunning ability to destroy them. The Polskys have the necesary tools to pull it out."
Kate Simon's travel books and her autobiographical portraits, Bronx Primitive and A Wider World, are admired for their good sense, wit and pithy grace. These qualities serve her well as a popular historian of a period that has set the Western world's standards for art, culture, cynical statecraft...
The first scene establishes the play's mood of underlying despair and over-hanging wit. Max accuses his wife Charlotte of infidelity, disputing her claim that she has just returned from a Geneva art auction. Due to Stoppard's cunning, his ambiguous lines refer to either her new lover or...
Movies, of course, have always been the most ludicrous offenders in this regard. They so often turn the stealth and cunning by which most artists survive into confrontational melodrama. How marvelous to find a film that comes at this subject from the right direction -- obliquely, metaphorically -- and in the proper...
Ah, the women. Having resisted the Navy policy change that put them on board, the ship's narrator-captain treats them fairly, admires their sailorly skills and forgets to his peril that they are, after all, women. An austere career man identified only as Tom or the Captain, he leads...