Regular border-crossers developed a canniness for dealing with customs officials.
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Given such canniness, a reassessment of the rest of Mr Kim's rule is overdue.
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Absent from the work is the deadpan canniness of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein's cool irony.
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He had come back safely from his long night trip; his canniness had served him well.
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Her conversations with her father reveal strength, stubbornness and an essential canniness about when to press her claims.
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It was canniness and sapped legs and a directive to put up points, by whatever means still worked.
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In fact, the authors argue that dogs are no more exceptional than other animals when it comes to canniness and intelligence.
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The CGI business is an arms race for canniness, and this surreal short just might be a harbinger of the war's end.
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Essie's blend of innocence and canniness is deeply touching, and she provides a jolt of real feeling in a world of synthetic emotions.
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Once the Melungeons were a barometer of discrimination, their situation shifting with the law's caprices, the forebearance of strangers and their own canniness, chutzpah and skin tone.
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We talked about the show's canniness on subjects that have thwarted other TV offerings, and why Maria's struggles make her the perfect narrator for our mad times.
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It was Villa Fiorito, Maradona always said, that taught him viveza, the sense of cunning or canniness that was prized as the virtue that allowed the impoverished to thrive.
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Decades later, the same tools Glover would wield with canniness to reboot the genre with its own novel authority, Gunn was using with even slicker virtuosity at the time.
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This was part canniness, part homage—a tribute to the deliberate anonymity and machine-merger at techno's heart, but also a gambit that their music could speak for itself.
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All in all, "Pedals" illustrates something beyond Conte's ingenuity and grit as a bedroom video auteur: his canniness, from the start, when it came to Silicon Valley narrative-building.
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"Luke Lea's canniness and caginess is what made that program possible," said Woody Register, a history professor at the University of the South who has researched the 1899 team.
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A central problem, though, is that Mr. Taylor, 86, is a master choreographer — singular in both compositional canniness and idiosyncratic imagination — who, paradoxically, keeps forgetting the secrets of his mastery.
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Sadly for libertarians, that political canniness also involves blatant reversals on criminal justice reform, gratuitous calls to "carpet bomb" ISIS, and public vows to fight the alleged "crisis" of same-sex marriage.
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In an unnamed country, a trio of homeless children of unspecified nationalities negotiates the vicissitudes of their imperiled circumstance with a mix of innocence, preternatural canniness and an empathy that transcends the limits of language.
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Some might argue that the black ground has become a habit aided and abetted by the heady visual buzz it generates, but this would be a hasty and superficial reading of the artist's canniness and mastery.
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Given Mr Sharif's reputation for canniness, it is a mystery why, following the publication in 2016 of papers leaked from a Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, he went into bat so nonchalantly to save his own political career.
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In the long-simmering dispute over whether dogs are smarter than cats, a recent study published in the journal Learning & Behavior suggests that dogs are no more exceptional than other animals when it comes to canniness and intelligence.
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Life on the border still has complexities, but the canniness of my father and others has been replaced by something more unambiguous and legal, something more like the wisdom that comes from living with your feet in two cultures.
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But virtually no one, including her strongest supporters, believe that a Speaker of Pelosi's canniness would, though sheer coincidence, announce support for a trade deal on the same day that House Democrats released formal articles of impeachment against Trump.
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He appreciates the canniness of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who, far from worrying about the schemes of Napoleon III to colonize Africa and the Far East, viewed them as a distraction that would strengthen Germany's relative position in Europe.
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But that was precisely when Augustus, with his own hunting instincts revived, wanted to go out, and he could be so insistent that sometimes, in spite of what we had been told by the vet, we let him out, trusting to his canniness to keep him safe.
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Fashioning himself as SAMO©, standing for "Same old shit," with friend Al Diaz, Basquiat gained attention for spray-painted slogans around the city; tags like "SAMO© 4 THE SO-CALLED AVANT-GARDE" make you question his canniness towards the scene he was simultaneously mocking and courting.
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Although You Know You Want This may be timely in its occasional adjacency to #MeToo, its real canniness comes from apprehending the psychology not only of power, but of power-hunger as, itself, a form of weakness: how people harbor an impulse toward sadistic narcissism, and how little it takes for them to succumb to it.
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It's odd that someone as canny as Trump—and I would argue that he's quite canny at times and his canniness is a big reason he's president—fell for Bannon, who burbled heavy-sounding philosophies (such as the need to "deconstruct the administrative state," which to Trump meant rolling back regulations and spending on domestic programs, both of which were fine with him).
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Directing a movie like "Thor" requires a daunting set of skills, many of which have little to do with framing a shot: the temperament to manage a set with as many as 1,20063 people on it rather than 100; the know-how to oversee complex effects; the canniness to please your bosses; the confidence not to be intimidated by the money, the stars, the vastness of the task.
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It encapsulates his characteristic canniness about human nature, specifically relationships. This is considered Abhishek Bachchan's role of a lifetime." Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave four stars explaining "The beauty of Mani Ratnam's cinema is truly in its unpredictability. Few filmmakers can translate their personal vision onto screen the way Mani Ratnam can.
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82 Light respected Koh's canniness, enterprise and social and political acumen and connections. He was recorded to have said about Koh, "Tuanka (towkay) China is an old fox. He has little to do with the government but being rich and having married a daughter of the old King he bears a considerable sway in their Becharas or Council"Tregonning 1965: 79 By appointing Koh Kapitan China, Light had gained an able administrator and judge.
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He was quickly accepted in the department though and Deakin recognised the value of Proctor's canniness and took him under his wing. However, it was not all plain-sailing for him. After bungling several cases in 2000, which in one case caused a car crash with two police cars which Sgt Matt Boyden and WPC Vicky Hagen were in but escaped with minor cuts. Deakin and Meadows threatened to transfer Proctor back to uniform.
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A stickler for team discipline, Smith was variously called the 'Demon Dictator' and the 'Martinet of Melbourne'. His canniness and brushed-back auburn hair earned him another nickname: the 'Red Fox'. Smith built his success on an espirit de corps, creating close-knit teams during Melbourne's years of greatness that were the envy of the other eleven clubs. Many sought to emulate his methods and create a similar atmosphere for their own clubs.
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Even in her retirement years she was very active in all her businesses and continued to make stock investments. Loke's shrewdness and determination had been a great influence on the life of her son Loke Wan Tho, till the end of his life. In spite of her canniness, Loke was a very ethical woman, especially towards honesty and fair dealing and she held to what she said to others. Loke died in 1981 at the age of 86.
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Habis Majali (; 1914 – April 22, 2001) was a Jordanian soldier. Majali served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Jordanian Armed Forces from 1958 to 1975, as Minister of Defense from 1967 to 1968, and as a member of the Jordanian Senate for 30 years from 1967 to 1997. Born in Ma'an, Majali joined Jordan's Arab Legion in 1932, reportedly gaining a reputation of bravery and canniness. He commanded Jordan's forces against Israel during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the Six Day War in 1967 and the Yom Kippur War in 1973; and against the Palestine Liberation Organization and Syria during Black September in 1970.
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