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Of the cunning, ruthless triumvirate that came out on top at the end of the country’s century of civil war, Tokugawa was without doubt the most patient, the most prudent — and most treacherous.
In the opening scenes, for instance, even as McTeer enacts Nora's dependence on her husband, she shows the cunning that is the only outlet for the character's acute and sensitive mind--submission as manipulation.
In this cunning, amusing poem, with its punch line that never wears out, the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy penetrates deep into the nature of political life.
I can't recall another actor who seems at once so earnest and so cunning, so ingenuous yet with something so clearly up his sleeve.
We thrill at the telephone game of question and evasion, thinking our guile and cunning will ultimately yield truth.