It went "cannily" forward, and knew how "to take occasion by the hand," and how to choose its friends. From Wordnik.com. [The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance] Reference
Her interlocutor writhed, but cannily forbore argument. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Sarkozy cannily managed to thin the left's uppermost ranks. From Wordnik.com. [The Grande Plan] Reference
She cannily used her secular apotheosis to expand her work. From Wordnik.com. [Eminence Without Irony] Reference
‘I never remember a Sabbath pass so cannily off in my life.’. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
So she lowered the passenger lift and cannily turned up her audio units. From Wordnik.com. [The Ship Who Sang]
'It's come down to that fight you two had in the dojo,' she said cannily. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
Circle cannily round the horse to the left; here at last is something like a slope. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
He studied her cannily, which wasn't an expression she had seen in her real husband. From Wordnik.com. [Stork Naked]
I think in this day and age, today Domingo is still singing very well and very cannily. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2007] Reference
So Porsche is not only cannily and carefully investing in its future, it's also recycling. From Wordnik.com. [Dream Cars] Reference
Last week Dana Carvey parodied her, a superfluous dig when she so cannily parodies herself. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Next To Jenny] Reference
Then came a cry from the captain, who had been cannily watching the water behind the craft. From Wordnik.com. [Dick in the Everglades] Reference
The opera works cannily with Melville's central themes of obsession, innocence and alienation. From Wordnik.com. [Taming the Whale] Reference
Replete with a knockout view and cafe, Barry cannily created the summer's must-see new art venue. From Wordnik.com. [This week's new exhibitions] Reference
The NYT story, by Zachery Kouwe and Dan Slater, cannily puts the Cioffi/Tannin e-mails in context. From Wordnik.com. [Bear Stearns Fraud Verdict: E-mails As Proof of Guilt? That's So 20th Century] Reference
Presently, "He's rather an agreeable person, that young American, after all," she cannily observed. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
De Jouffroy quickly and cannily steered the boat ashore, and then bowed to the cheering multitudes. From Wordnik.com. [July 15, 1783: Marquis Invents Steamboat, Misses Esteem Boat] Reference
Highmurf Blim looked down at the Knights of Takhisis from his throne, his piggy eyes squinting cannily. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons of Chaos]
His wife, who knows her husband's character all too well, has already cannily anticipated his inner struggle. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and the Uses of Power] Reference
On the way they would cannily scan the country from the hilltop, to see if the dreaded dragoons were in sight. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
"I do not think your curiosity strong enough to cause you to linger this long," observed the 'Speaker cannily. From Wordnik.com. [The Moment Of The Magician]
He has cannily inveigled the entire region, including the Israelis, into having a stake in Turkey's prosperity. From Wordnik.com. [The Turkey-Iran Nuke Deal] Reference
The "Salon Cubism" section is entertaining, yet it also cannily restores significance to less than stellar work. From Wordnik.com. [The Cubist Circle] Reference
"Maybe they've come back early to be on the scene and get a stand-in with the freshies," cannily suggested Jerry. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
By-and-by the landlord came cannily up to me and whispered in my ear a sort of apology for the rabble of his house. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
She pressed up to the Goulet with the last of the flood, and cannily withdrew in to safety with the last of the ebb. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
In addition, Hector Cameron had cannily acquired land containing a wide creek, one of many that flowed into Cape Fear. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
The second shift is that marketers are cannily playing to our over-heated self-esteem, stroking our Capra-fattened egos. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Hanft: Sarah Palin, the User-Generated Candidate] Reference
Putin's approval ratings reach 75 percent -- and he has cannily used that domestic popularity to drive his new foreign policy. From Wordnik.com. [America's New Friend?] Reference
Mr. Holmes, a biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, cannily shows that poets were complicit in fueling science's power to enthrall. From Wordnik.com. [When Science Sparked the Poetic Imagination] Reference
Many objects in the first gallery illustrate how early emperors cannily rooted themselves in the past while forging new beginnings. From Wordnik.com. [The Ming, Bricks and Beauty] Reference
But Earl Ranulf of Chester sat cannily in his own palatine, minded his own business, and stirred neither hand nor foot in her cause. From Wordnik.com. [St. Peter's Fair]
And the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck cannily know just how to push the emotional hot buttons of Angry White Males these days. From Wordnik.com. [Don Imus Still Has A Bright Future On America's Toxic Airwaves] Reference
What he cannily refrains from saying is that a prior religious commitment, not a concern for scientific accuracy, governs his critique. From Wordnik.com. [Saving Us from Darwin] Reference
The difficult task of making real science writing read with the compulsiveness of fiction is cannily achieved by Brandenburg and Paxson. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Mars, Dying Earth: Summary and book reviews of Dead Mars, Dying Earth by Dr John Brandenburg.] Reference
So much of humanity, whatever it looks like or however cannily it has devised to exist, has not begun, and why have such a respect for numbers?. From Wordnik.com. [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference
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