Word: outsmarting
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Pertinax Surly (John Carito) sees through the alchemist but doesn't manage to outsmart him. Carito is particularly good when dressed up as a Spanish hidalgo pretending not to understand Subtle when he tells him, "You are a scurvy whoreson dog," to which he replied. "Gracias, gracias." Tribulation (Walter Matherly) and Ananias (Sam Guckenheimer) are two whacked-out sectaries from the most extreme of the Protestant lunatic frings; Kastrll (Lee Silverman) is suitably boorish but sometimes so much so that you can't understand what he's saying. Dame Pliant (Andrea Stein) is a dumb blonde who turns...
Barnaby and Fisher had concocted a plan: Fisher would hit the ball softly, outsmart his opponent and use soft drop shots as his kill shots. But even when he lost the first game, Fisher did not lose his cool...
...Racing is a dog-eat-dog business," he continued. "You have to be careful what you say. Everybody's trying to outsmart everybody else. There are people you say 'hello' to, but you wouldn't tell them your business. Of course with friends it's different," he added hastily...
...DISCOVERY of the university opens up new worlds. There is a vast wealth of conspiracy to be uncovered, large numbers of liberal professors to humiliate, and it is not lonely at all. It is fun. It is great fun to manipulate the Establishment, to push it around, to outsmart it. It is what David Riesman calls "mischief" with a consciousness of the absurd always there...
...shed his furry coat entirely. Those who competed most effectively with the stronger and swifter carnivores of the open spaces were those who began to walk and run in an upright position, increasing their speed and freeing their hands to grasp weapons of the hunt. Those who learned to outsmart their four-legged competitors were the ones whose brains grew larger and whose maturation rate slowed down, extending their childhood and giving them more time to learn the lessons of survival from their parents...