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Example sentences for: canny

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The film also does little to suggest what other historians believe: that Wallace was a canny opportunist who embraced racist rhetoric when it was politically advantageous and jettisoned it when it wasn't.
At FIT there is a 1986 hooded and trained evening dress by Azzedine Alaia, made of slinky green acetate knit that molds the body better than a glove, with similarly canny curved seaming.
The Canny edge detector can be briefly described using Equation 1 developed to detect the local maxima in the direction perpendicular to the edge.
A NYT front-pager calls Bill Bradley a canny underdog in the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
And anyway, these millennial demons are a particularly clumsy lot, far less canny and elegant than, say, Rosemary's Baby 's John Cassavetes, whose earthly weapon of choice was spiked chocolate mousse.