This, I would think when I was young, will be the year I'll be as curious as Lucy in Narnia, as courageous as Scout in Mockingbird, or as cunning as Nancy Drew.
This was a bet on soft and squishy miracles in a competitive world full of people every bit as intelligent and cunning as Apple's leadership.
This description of Democrats and the left as a cunning, skillful and highly effective juggernaut directly contradicts the picture DeLay and other Republicans regularly paint of their political foes.
During the trials, Ms. Knox became a highly divisive figure, depicted as a cunning she-devil in Italy and a victim of a ham-handed Italian justice system in the U.S. Critics charged that the case was based mostly on circumstantial evidence.
With Dominic Cooper as Dakin, the cunning, dark-eyed seducer, and Samuel Barnett as the smooth-cheeked Posner, physically younger than the other boys and hopelessly in love with Dakin.
The title was as sly as his painting was cunning.
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Where Eisner is viewed as a shark--creative, cunning and controlling--Iger is a likeable doer: decisive and diplomatic.
Naturally there is plenty of high style but few hints of low cunning: Wainewright presents himself as a blameless victim.
As with many of Mr Sarkozy's cunning plans, Brussels suspects foul play.
But the more time passes, and the worse the violence gets, the more it looks as if America's disengagement reflects not a cunning plan, but a lack of any sort of plan at all.
The Hammers enjoyed some comfortable early possession in midfield but posed little direct threat and the kind of cunning invention typified by their manager Gianfranco Zola as a player.
Carp are cunning, a very fox of the river, as Izaak Walton said.
Cunning old Mr Posthumus has tried to depict Ms Granholm as slippery, shallow and more leftish than she appears.
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Perhaps she understood that all my tactical cunning was a measure of my devotion, and, as her cool lips brushed my bruised cheek, I could not imagine myself ever having been happier.
There is a lovely post-credits shot as the Mme de Merteuil figure (Valmont's opposite number in cunning and deceit) pats her stomach bearing the now visible reward for her chicanery.
But the problem is that despite its protestations of cunning competence, the government's aims today are the same as they were in 2006.
As Mr Bergan movingly recounts, Eisenstein developed a curious mixture of audacity and cunning, always pushing his films towards an ideal state which he must have known could never be realised, for political or economic reasons, yet managing to remain employed and to launch yet another project after the previous one had collapsed or been compromised or sabotaged.
Courage, charm, resourceful cunning and a hidden hardness enabled him to save American capitalism, though, as he said himself, it was Dr Win-the-War, not Dr New Deal, that ended the Depression.
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