Word: slyness
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...Ulysses, played by Jerry Kilty, is more ambiguous. His chief function is pulling the decadent Greeks back together and rousing Achilles from his lethargy. But this is not all--he always seems to have a deeper design. Although Thersites later calls him a "dog-fox," the addition of this slyness is only dramatically confusing. Otherwise, Kilty fulfilled the requirements for the predominant, dynamic, and unifying force...
...Wrong Can You Get? But the humiliating fact that the press had been completely wrong on the outcome of the election could not be laughed off. Furthermore, the blame could not be brushed off on the pollsters (see below), politicos and pundits, or even on the stupidity or slyness of the voters. The blame, as a few top editors sadly admitted in their painful soul-searching after election day, lay primarily on the press itself...
Sometimes the Connecticut Yankee's love of a sly trick resulted in the sale of wooden nutmegs to the British. Wilbur Cross would not condone such a perversion of Yankee shrewdness, but he does not mind slyness in a good cause. As a young professor he found himself loaded down with administrative work. He reflected that one way to get out from under would be to do the work badly. His idea of slovenliness was so far above most men's idea of efficiency that he found himself called upon to do more & more administrative work...
...appear 37 years ago and have been coming out at lengthy intervals ever since, have long delighted patient readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Their low-keyed humor, chess-game pace and subacid satire give them an effect somewhat less than sidesplitting, but for readers who like their slyness slow and stately, Ernest Bramah is a lordly dish. And The Return of Kai Lung shows that his salt has not lost its savor for being kept so long in the attic...
...their heads over a book of stones that were partly funny, partly serious, in the main tantalizingly good. These tales of Kentucky farmers were written in racy Kentucky dialect, with a wild-eyed, straightforward outrageousness that reminded readers more than once of Erskine Caldwell, at times of the ingenuous slyness of Chekhov. Readers who liked to laugh with a clear conscience, however, were still puzzled by Author Stuart's refusal to make the most of his Munchausenish humor. But in spite of a preoccupation with death and burial that will seem to many a reader adolescently morbid, some...