Coach Terry Stotts guided the ship with grace and guile.
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The Astros received a master class in deception and guile.
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They prefer big, noisy machines to stealth, guile and swordsmanship.
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"The whole town can't work at Walmart," Mr. Guile said.
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There, the inmates are plunged into a decades-long rivalry between two of max's prison blocks, and are forced to use their guile (or, if they're Piper, lack of guile), to weather the changes.
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It is creativity, innovation and sheer guile that give us the edge.
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"Triumph of the Will" is a demonstration of cinematic might — and guile.
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In the "Untitled" series, she was dealing with subjects devoid of guile.
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Street Fighter's Guile has the best hair in all of video games.
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Without the guile of Mr Rafsanjani, Iran looks likely to become more polarised.
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So he's doing it on guile and skill and nuance and adroit footwork.
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Marriage is the one place where guile should be unnecessary and indeed, futile.
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After Nestlé left town, Mr. Guile moved with his grandparents into a trailer.
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Sometimes more than guile and payoffs are used to secure a Palio victory.
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Seemingly missing in the new president is the political guile to reconcile these contradictions.
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Mac Guile, 24, was not quite 6 years old when the chocolate works closed.
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Mr. Guile and his younger brother took baths with water warmed on the stove.
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The Yankees' patience increased as the game went on, but so did Cole's guile.
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These two have all of Dad's gall but only a scintilla of his guile.
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He has never regained his hard heat, and survives on guile and pitch movement.
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The voice—ringing, powerful, soulful—and the musical guile were there from the start.
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They even displayed a little guile to find an advantage in the final minutes.
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They should choose the method, and metaphor, for their political speech with equal strategic guile.
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And though rampant with provocation, Can lacked the self-conscious guile of much Western experimentalism.
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When asked about his commitment to his hairstyle, Guile said it's of the upmost importance.
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The anthropologist Gabriella Coleman has described hacking as the "aesthetic disposition" of craftiness and guile.
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Tom's guile in persuading them to do his work, they said, amounted to fraudulent misrepresentation.
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The performances — Holland's in particular, full of sadness, guile and audacity — feel the same way.
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On the other is Mr. Comey, whose optics imply discipline, self-control and lack of guile.
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From our previous conversations, I don't sense any guile in him — mischief, yes, but not dishonesty.
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"His intelligence and his guile are a clear indication that he can't be trusted," Garaufis said.
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In a match-up where guile and artistry always trumped power, Barty was simply smarter throughout.
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She responded without guile, as if the whole ordeal really were a collaborative fact-finding endeavor.
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And then Salah danced past Sergio Ramos, a player whose grace and guile encapsulate his team.
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The Walmart Academy classes appealed to Mr. Guile because they were more like discussions than lectures.
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The most useful lesson Mr. Guile learned at the academy was how to motivate his workers.
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In spite of Mr. Cranston's guile and grit, Ms. Swicord's "Wakefield" is something less than that.
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Another run came via guile, as after Seager walked he stole second with Hernandez at third.
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How much this guile improved the lot of the citizenry, rather than the country's elites, is unclear.
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Chalk up another success for Asia&aposs most durable leader and the politics of guile and ruthlessness.
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No, that was due to guile and sound hiring practices, certainly not his home run–hitting abilities.
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Bless Steven Jackson for getting to play in the playoffs, but he's all guile at this point.
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C. C. Sabathia turns 38 in July, though he has learned to thrive with guile, not power.
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She no longer relies on speed and athleticism to get to balls but on experience and guile.
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"If my hairstyle is disturbed, I am conscious of correcting immediately," Guile said, according to a translation.
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But it was not Mr. Tillerson's charm, guile and toughness alone that won the day for Exxon.
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He went on to rule the new country, with maximum guile and graft, for the next 21 years.
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His greatest military victory, at the battle of Hattin in 1187 (reimagined above), was a masterpiece of guile.
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The familiar quickness and guile that made Mayweather a star kept him safe in the first two rounds.
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Throughout history, military victories have been secured with guile and a willingness to try something that seems unwise.
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But Westbrook has always been an excellent rebounder, relying on quickness and guile rather than strength and size.
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But this time they are not based on greater numbers of bombs but increased capabilities, stealth and guile.
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He used pragmatism, guile and an outsize personality to navigate a hazardous course through decades of political upheaval.
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He has suppressed perceived threats to his dominance, often brutally, and maneuvered with guile to outflank his rivals.
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It was created by the art director of CryptoKitties, Guilherme Twardowski, who is known professionally as Guile Gaspar.
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Firstly, thanks to the guile of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
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The cast of characters may change, and we hope quickly, but not the ambition and guile they represent.
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It also revealed how jihadist snipers use innovation and guile to take on enemies with far greater fire power.
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They did it through a mixture of tactical guile, luck with injuries and a weak showing by their rivals.
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She is always thinking about the ways in which calculation fails, as guile yields again and again to innocence.
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Having exchanged breaks early on, Cornet again eased ahead as Radwanska attempted to counter the Frenchwoman's guile with power.
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With a blend of guile and brutality, Mr. Mugabe has led Zimbabwe since its independence from Britain in 1980.
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It was a goal down, a player down, away from home, against a team packed with creativity and guile.
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I met Mac Guile, whose grandparents lost their jobs at Nestlé and could barely afford food and hot water.
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There's a history of American ascendancy that might be written in terms of luck and timing, guile and opportunity.
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He is consistently self-absorbed and self-righteous — a man full of guile, but not an ounce of shame.
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In Zoya's final bid for freedom from Lev and Vera, Celt upends stereotypes about innocence and guile, deception and honesty.
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Cruz is to some extent Santorum's second coming, but with more guile, more gall, more money and a better organization.
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Mr Trump's world is one of muscular conflicts of interest; brute, zero-sum tests of leverage, self-confidence and guile.
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He fights against Guile (December 23, 1960), who has put on a few pounds after all the PTSD he's suffered.
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He can no longer inspire his beloved team to victory, as he once could with instinctive and almost insolent guile.
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"Ford tended to assume most people were like him: essentially open, up front and without guile or cunning," Rumsfeld writes.
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Guile will be free to Street Fighter V players, and his stage will be given to to season pass holders.
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"You get by on your guile more than muscle, brute strength and speed," the team's bench coach, Gary DiSarcina, said.
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He is scornful of multinational compacts and regional alliances, preferring bilateral negotiations and one-on-one tests of strength and guile.
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U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis denied bail, arguing that Alexander's intelligence and guile are clear indications that he cannot be trusted.
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Hun Sen became prime minister in 1985 and has led Cambodia ever since with a combination of skill, guile and ruthlessness.
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Sevastova deployed her guile and counterpunching skills to ambush Sloane Stephens, the defending champion, 210-210, 210-103, earlier on Tuesday.
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At 71, Mr. Guile got a job at the Fulton Walmart Supercenter as a part-time janitor, earning $7.50 an hour.
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There was no falsity, no pretense, no guile, no spin, no art to Barbara Bush, who died on Tuesday at age 92.
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The Sharks, sunk by Letang's guile and Bonino's precision, bemoaned their nerves, their slow start, their turnovers, their stagnant neutral-zone play.
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In the case of climate change, that means we're trying to fight the rising tides with feats of engineering and technological guile.
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Looking for men who could extract "the maximum out of surprise and guile," he sought soldiers who exhibited independence and self-reliance.
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It worked once in about forty times, through Pierson's own fault rather than any deception or guile on the part of Kim.
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Sansa Stark had proven her guile and toughness, while her younger sister, Arya, had saved the day at the Battle of Winterfell.
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He saw a message of guile and craftiness, of David's steadfast approach to a challenge of gigantic proportions, of faith and belief.
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This fledgling secret police service hoodwinked the established intelligence services of Europe, and in so doing showed its guile, patience and cruelty.
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Maria's combination of slice and guile, rare on a circuit dominated by big-hitting power players, frustrated Kerber, especially in the first set.
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Each venture served as its own game of cat and mouse for Brinkley and the US legal system, spotted with greed and guile.
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And there's good reason to suspect he will deploy that same guile and ideological agility to save his job when it's most endangered.
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Guile, with his golden, perfectly sculpted 'do, is the new spokesperson for J-Gel, a hair gel from the Japanese cosmetic company Yanagiya.
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It is unclear whether Mr López's transfer to more comfortable quarters is a sign of the regime's weakness or, more likely, of its guile.
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After all, Lucifer at least had some charm and guile, while in Trump's version, chaotic evil comes across to most people as pure ugliness.
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It is Buttigieg's luck that he happens to be the only such Democrat in the race right now—but his guile got him here.
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Caesar didn't need to teach Cleopatra ruthlessness — she had that down pat when they met — and he is somewhat crestfallen when she learns guile.
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But he kept in touch with his friend, seeing him as a kind of career counsellor and, not without guile, as a potential source.
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With patience and guile, Pyongyang's post-abuse sweet talk may literally disarm both the U.S forces stationed in South Korea and South Korea itself.
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That's her commentating in the video below, as Countdown's Rachel Riley kicks comedian Russell Howard's Guile into a messy heap in Street Fighter II Turbo.
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Beyond that, Bryan is truthfully one of pro wrestling's good guys, a man of genuine affection for others and with no guile behind his smile.
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And in the Dodgers' 2-0 victory Wednesday over the Yankees, it was as much about his and Roberts's guile as about the ensuing innings.
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Now the Pumas have as much flair, skill and unpredictability on attack as they do power and guile in their scrum, lineouts and rolling mauls.
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It's going to be something new," said the 19-year-old, whose guile has worked wonders so far and "But I like those big courts.
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They're encouraging him to take his time on the block, attack mismatches, and lean on his strength and guile to muscle into worthwhile shot attempts.
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I have long admired the strength, guile and intelligence of N.F.L. players, and on Sunday they gave me renewed cause to honor their social conscience.
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Then, with the guile and speed turtles are known for, he snuck away from his owners recently and went on the lam for a few months.
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Greinke relies on guile, and Hinch wanted a power pitcher, Josh James, who knocked down Zimmerman with a fastball and struck him out with a changeup.
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In a quarter-final clash postponed on Wednesday because of heavy rain, Barty produced an intelligent display full of guile in the Court Suzanne Lenglen sunshine.
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But her toughness, her guile, and her experience—qualities that helped her patiently decimate Trump in their three debates—will be assets in future political battles.
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Woods's drives were crooked in his season debut at Torrey Pines, but he survived the cut there on guile and guts and finished tied for 23rd.
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He's all about presence and presentation, and the grace and guile required to deal with the bad guys, the Man and of course all those women.
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England won the World Cup in 1966 on home soil by playing a brand of direct football, privileging courage and work ethic over skill and guile.
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Still, Schiavone showed flashes of the all-court guile and competitive spirit that brought her a title and a runner-up finish (23) at Roland Garros.
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In early 1992, Bill Clinton faced a firestorm over his guile and duplicity with his Arkansas draft board as he schemed to avoid serving in Vietnam.
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But what distinguished Drake was a sense of shameless guile, a confidence in his complex persona that was due partly to his background as an actor.
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A counterpuncher who wears down opponents through his elite physicality and guile, Murray earned a reputation as one of the hardest-working players of his generation.
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The lyrics have a scrutinizing mien that's similar to the tunes he wrote with Mr. Fagen, though he renders them with less guile or smarmy satisfaction.
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England saved its most impressive performance for last in the group stage, overcoming the gifted and experienced Japan team through a mixture of grit and guile.
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What makes the stories about Matsumura different are that they do not come down to his magical karate powers, they are instead stories of guile and manipulation.
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He's open, absorbing their pain without guile until he finally realizes he, too has to self-protect if he's to make it out of this situation unharmed.
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" She's been accused of making her voice sound younger, of seeming "to lack even a modest helping of guile," and not looking "like a girl who struggles.
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Opener Shikhar Dhawan topscored for the hosts with an unbeaten run-a-ball 46 but it was Ashwin's guile that laid the foundation for India's comprehensive victory.
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There was a gulf of understanding between the court and Kenya, one Moreno-Ocampo, whose political guile was undercut by his political tone-deafness, never quite grasped.
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Friendship was finally restored through the efforts of Benjamin Rush, a colleague from the Continental Congress, who conducted a two-year campaign of exhortation, flattery and guile.
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Surely Bongwan, with his potentially toxic blend of vanity, self-pity, passivity and guile, fits the profile of a recognizable and infamous type of lousy media man.
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A show about power, guile and who to take to the spring fling, Mike Lew's adaptation of "Richard III," set in a suburban high school, nears graduation.
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Despite Greinke's guile and long track record in the regular season, the Tampa Bay Rays battered him for six runs in the first round of the playoffs.
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As a couple (platonic, though the movie hints at more) the two have brass and guile, transforming the men around them into hapless victims or witless dupes.
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The main object of that ambivalence is Rex Walls, a big-talking, big-dreaming ne'er-do-well played with the usual guile and gusto by Woody Harrelson.
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They transport the viewer into a world where conventional distinctions — between private feeling and public display, between honesty and guile, between life and theater — do not apply.
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That is, unless Manning, through guile, painstaking planning and the art of a deft veteran touch, can forestall the march of time for at least one more day.
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When we first meet Rachel, we see her character beating a man at poker, using her guile and wit — in defiance of the Asian-women-aren't-assertive stereotype.
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Putin emerges from his documentary just as mysterious and contradictory as ever, partly as a result of his own shrewdness and partly because of Stone's lack of guile.
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A mature democracy, in short, is not defeating its enemies—some of whom may have been wrongly identified—with courage or guile but turning them back into infants.
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The European game, they told him, was focused more on basketball I.Q., a style of play in which guile can make up for whatever is lacking in athleticism.
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At an age when most fighters can lean on guile and intuition, Washington navigates strategy through his ears—by listening to Pullman's strategies and sticking to the game plan.
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"Yes, I can confirm that Realbotix is already working on the male version of our upcoming robots," Guile Lindroth, a spokesperson for the company, told me in an email.
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Some viewers may accuse Van Sant of using his visual guile to gussy up a plain tale, but more of them, I suspect, will revel in John's rocky route.
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In Europe, Teodosic capitalized on the smaller court, shorter games and lighter schedule, relying on his pick-and-roll guile to deal with all the bodies in the paint.
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It's important to understand the conceptual clockwork of such an image: how, through style and guile, it delivers messages that can be read in different ways by different audiences.
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But in the two crucial moments when they needed it most, the Tar Heels counted first on guile and then on brute strength to seize possession of the ball.
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In his long tenure in New York, he evolved, by necessity, from a hard thrower to someone who could mix up his pitches with a good deal of guile.
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"Avid Reader" manages to cover all this territory, as well as Mr. Gottlieb's decades-long association with New York City Ballet, with grace and guile and a sometimes-barbed wit.
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Mr. Akhtar belongs to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, or M.Q.M., a political group that led this chaotic, violent city for decades through a combination of political guile, violence and intimidation.
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The column was part of a larger musing on sex, which he once viewed as "best achieved through luck, guile, strategy or coercion," until sexual abuse discussions changed his views.
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But Moore was an undersized old man who made up for it with guile, Clay was a beautifully proportioned heavyweight who still moved quicker than anyone Moore had ever fought.
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Getting wind of a secret weapons project, she made it her mission to be on hand when the topic was discussed by the Germans, coaxing information through charm and guile.
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Boasson Hagen, from Norway, caught the right breakaways on the longest stage and used all of his guile and strength to hold off chasers in the final section on Friday.
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He gave up six hits and two walks and struck out six, using the same guile he had displayed last season when he went from unheralded prospect to key contributor.
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But employing a keen intelligence, street-bred guile, an appetite for violence and a willingness to betray others, he quickly climbed the ladder to the top of the Colombo organization.
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Nurmagomedov showed the right amount of courage to step in and fire, and then the right amount of guile to use feints to have McGregor back-skipping and swinging at air.
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He disarmed Groth, the world's fastest recorded server, with a clinical returning game, showing his guile by lobbing the 6-ft-4in (1.93m) Australian repeatedly when he lumbered forward in desperation.
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Although Tenshin connected with one early shot, he offered no real resistance as Mayweather used all his guile and enormous power to rip shots to the body and head at will.
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But the fact that he played in that Yankees spotlight for as long as he did and mostly avoided off-the-field notoriety suggests that Jeter might possess some hidden guile.
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The Depleted Indians' season — beset by key injuries and held together with baling wire, spearmint gum and Manager Terry Francona's guile — was carried by a bullpen deeper than the Mariana Trench.
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He had used guile and charm to expand by means of acquisitions worth $260bn in total, first in Spain, then across Latin America and in Britain, where it bought Abbey in 2110.
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Chances are you will see purity of heart, unbridled wonder, curiosity and awe, an appreciation for kindness and human contact, humor, playfulness, soulfulness, and a complete lack of guile or hidden agenda.
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The 403-year-old left-hander lost the first 240 points of the match on a rainy Court Simonne Mathieu, but had more guile than her bigger-hitting opponent in testing conditions.
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The fact that Debbie thinks of Survivor as a battle shows that, unlike benevolent shepherd kings Peter and Liz, she takes her opponents seriously and she will play with guile and deception.
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The extent of Van Roosmalen's defensive guile is putting on his earmuffs with the big gloves and walking in on his opponent, taking blows until he can open up with his own.
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With no obvious primary scoring option by his side, Horford has—not entirely, but for lengthy stretches—swapped his trademark agility, guile, and passive brilliance for brute force and an everlasting flex.
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From a relatively safe historical distance, it's possible to appreciate him as an almost literary character, a volatile and fascinating mixture of resentment, intelligence, paranoia and guile, with a disarming sentimental streak.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — The rapid fall of Zimbabwe's president, whose legendary guile and ruthlessness helped him outmaneuver countless adversaries over nearly four decades, probably has surprised no one more than Robert Mugabe himself.
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In the gospel of Fred Rogers, children are our superiors in the way they trust each person they meet, the way they lack guile, the way a child can admit simple vulnerability.
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But his early career was spent in trial courts, mostly in the South, where he fought for racial justice in hostile territory, relying on humor, charm, outrage, guile and stone-cold courage.
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During the colonial era, bands of looters — missionaries, scholars, security forces and fortune hunters — fanned out across the continent and, by force or guile, carted away vast quantities of Africa's artistic heritage.
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There could indeed have been another path for the Bolshevik Revolution: the very naïveté, idealism, and lack of guile demonstrated by so many of the Old Bolsheviks remains a testament to their decency.
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He can serve with enough force and guile to keep Djokovic from teeing off on too many returns, and he has a deft enough touch at the net to push forward as well.
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Australia earlier had too much pace and guile for a tough-tackling Canada side and Emilee Cherry scored two first-half tries as the world series champions eased into the final 17-5.
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Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature established the committee in a typical bit of Albany guile earlier this year when the lawmakers were reluctant to do the dirty work of raising their own salaries.
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Through charm, guile and a shrewd ability to read the winds of change, he galvanized his reputation as Mexico's timeless politician, the ultimate power broker even when his party was out of power.
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Emily is self-absorbed, lazy and rude, but also so lacking in true meanness or guile and so dogged in her pursuit of shallow pleasures that she's kind of fun to be around.
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Vargas (1-3) was skipped in his previous turn after starting the season with three sloppy outings, but he shut down Miami with changeups and guile for his first victory with the Mets.
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The preternatural court craft and guile she showed at her young age drew quick comparisons to Martina Hingis, the last player to make a major impact in women's tennis at such an early age.
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Defensive guile can serve to undo the aggression of an all out scrapper but the thing which the offensive fighter so rarely expects from the technician is to be blasted straight in the face.
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Instead, Kennard is a smooth-shooting marksman with an extremely high basketball IQ who gets by on guile and dexterity, and scored lots of points for the Blue Devils at a historically efficient rate.
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Justin Wong Du "NuckleDu" Dang is a tremendous Street Fighter player — he favors Nash, R. Mika, and Guile — and he is believed to be the United States' best shot at winning the Capcom Cup.
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Playing her first Wimbledon, she employed variety and guile to strand a tiring Williams at the back of court with neat drop shots that the American, her left leg heavily bandaged, would not chase.
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Gallon's knockout win involved as much guile as it did gymnastics, and the high-flying move was so bold and ridiculous that it has to be a candidate for the knockout of the year.
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There's a lack of guile in both of them, where the gimmick is that they're just normal people, with normal motivations outside the ring and a burning desire to be the best inside it.
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From about halfway through the first episode of "Ozark," the financial planner Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) and his family have tiptoed the razor's edge, surviving certain death through guile, ingenuity and plain old luck.
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They always battled, as one British World Cup commentator put it, with "vigor and verve," refusing to accept that work ethic and guile couldn't close their skill gap with the rest of the world.
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The military hero, Bigwig, could have been a Woundwort in a different dispensation; instead he willingly bends to the statesman, Hazel, who lacks his strength and fearlessness but exceeds him in foresight and guile.
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But once he won power in Zimbabwe's first free elections, in 20033, after a seven-year war, he turned, with a blend of guile and brutality, to the elimination of adversaries, real and imagined.
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But Trump's lawyers must use guile and gall to stop Mueller from opening that door for another reason: Since their client doesn't face prosecution, could he sue to have the grand jury action overturned?
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Wielding a modest serve and lacking penetration in his groundstrokes, he relied on fitness, guile and a seemingly limitless reservoir of grit to grind down opponents rather than blow them off court with raw power.
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"If, in fact, he was able to guile us by not being antagonistic toward the media but open and welcoming and direct—if that worked to get him better press coverage—then bravo," he said.
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But he has refashioned himself with a cut fastball, a changeup, a sinker and a veteran's guile, and has said repeatedly he wants to pitch next season — whether it is with the Yankees or elsewhere.
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With the guile of a great reporter, he lulls them into boasting about their operation on the record, and lures them to a cafe where a photographer is waiting to capture their faces on film.
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Through charm, guile and a muscular determination to make it with her daughters to the American border, María, who is broke, has somehow managed to line up accommodation in private homes, usually staying for free.
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It would have required a Yankees victory and the right outcomes in two other games, but the Blue Jays and Ryan Goins thwarted any possibility of a celebration with a combination of power and guile.
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They lived in a spacious house across from a McDonald's, where Mr. Guile was known as the store's mascot because of his name — Mac — and the fact that he ate breakfast there almost every day.
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Smith tops out at adequacy's uppermost margin, but that adequacy is his own, a blend of guile and fine-tuning that represents not so much a waystation in the evolution of quarterbacking as a rogue offshoot.
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The EEIC was an English trading company which deployed a combination of mercenaries and guile to eventually come to rule most of what is now India from 1757 until 1857, when the British Crown assumed control.
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While the 33-year-old Strycova played impressively to outsmart the 19th seed, Konta was the architect of her own downfall as she blazed 34 unforced errors against an opponent who simply had too much guile.
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It did take what seems like an excruciating procedure—a long needle was used to inject the substance used for lip enhancement into his vocal chord, and it was repeated every three months—and some guile.
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Despite his previous statements about pulling out of Afghanistan, we never should have expected him to, since it would have taken courage and guile to stand up to the military, two qualities Trump does not possess.
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But Venus now has her first victory over Serena since 2014 and a place in the fourth round, where she will face Anastasija Sevastova, a Latvian with a game brimming with spin and guile, on Tuesday.
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But Sevastova, whose game is full of slice and guile, is the kind of unconventional veteran player that has troubled Williams before in a U.S. Open semifinal (see Roberta Vinci's mega-upset of Williams in 2015).
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's incoming central bank head, Miguel Angel Pesce, will need all his guile to navigate the country's myriad economic challenges: interest rates above 60%, drained foreign reserves, tough fiscal targets and roaring inflation.
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Some—the more industrious out there—know that to stay ahead in a competitive marketplace takes some extra guile, and so blanket message all their clients with deals, updates, or simply to remind them that they exist.
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Now, with the foot soldiers of his Republican majority under siege in their home districts, the blustering outsider who chalked up his predecessors' failures to their lack of will or guile, is seeing his own challenged daily.
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That meeting of the party's Central Committee was the culmination of months of secretive discussions that are only now coming to light — and show how Mr. Xi maneuvered with stealth, swiftness and guile to rewrite China's Constitution.
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He sounded as if he were trying to push himself fully into every note, intentionally and bodily and without guile — as if it were the only way he would have any shot at getting his point across.
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Authority-confronting comics like Margaret Cho and Janeane Garofalo used their guile to defy feminine expectation, and dark-spirited ingénues such as Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci, and Angelina Jolie lent their doe-eyed morbidity to the big screen.
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Not only is his length intimidating around the rim, but Aldridge is agile enough to switch out onto the perimeter, smart enough to direct traffic along the backline, and filled with enough guile to get stops without fouling.
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But Angela does turn out to be amoral, manipulative and dishonest, traits that make her both a caricature of feminine guile and a promising fiction writer — perhaps more fully committed to the art than her vain, bumbling teacher.
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BUENOS AIRES, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Argentina's incoming central bank head, Miguel Angel Pesce, will need all his guile to navigate the country's myriad economic challenges: interest rates above 60%, drained foreign reserves, tough fiscal targets and roaring inflation.
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The 20-year-old German has yet to recapture the form that earned him five singles titles, including two Masters events, in 2017 but he has displayed guile in prevailing in a pair of three-set matches in Miami.
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Mario might need to chomp down on a mushroom to become Super, but it takes a hero with the maturity and guile of Duke Nukem to pop a steroid every now and then for the sake of superhuman strength.
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At 833, Beltran is a shadow of his former self in the best way possible, a vengeful ghost who is down a few tools from his mid-30's peak but gets by on guile and old man strength.
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If Colon, who will turn 23 on Thursday, is hanging on to the vestiges of his professional career — getting by with one pitch (a fastball) and a belly full of guile — Torres, 20, is continuing to assert his arrival.
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Guile is returning to Street Fighter after being conspicuously absent from the 16-character launch lineup of Street Fighter V. He's got some of his classic moves, but also has new tricks thanks to the game's V-Skill system.
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On Tuesday morning, Mr. Hun Sen — who has maintained his grip on power for 33 years with a potent mix of military power, political guile and old-school thuggery — took to Facebook to deem the polls free and fair.
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McDavid skated with his usual guile and swooping speed, and on a forgettable afternoon for his teammates, he scored his seventh goal this season at 6 minutes 50 seconds of the second period, tapping a rebound past Islanders goalie Thomas Greiss.
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Jesus's gifts would seem to include prodigious reserves of guile and resourcefulness along with elite hand-to-hand combat skills, though it remains to be seen whether or how he will bring those to bear in aide of the main group.
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Although no longer testing triple digits on the radar gun, Verlander, like the Yankees' C. C. Sabathia a night earlier, used more deception and guile than overpowering stuff to flummox the Yankees in a 6-1 win at the Stadium.
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At age 36, Sabathia would have to last another decade to play as long as Ryan, and his once-dominant fastball has long since deserted him, leaving him to reach his career finish line with sinkers, cutters, changeups and guile.
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Phelps took comfort in knowing he had put in the work and prepared well, in contrast with his haphazard, halfhearted approach to the 2012 London Games, where he relied on guile and guts to win six medals, including four golds.
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Among writers who are "comparables," as they say in real estate, Mr. Bass is less earthy than Larry Brown, less arch than Barry Hannah, less randy than Jim Harrison and less sleek with guile than Richard Ford and Thomas McGuane.
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Although he is 35, Vargas came highly recommended by Eiland, his former pitching coach in Kansas City, for his work ethic and a skill set — guile, movement and mid-80s fastballs — that contrasts with the Mets' rotation of hard throwers.
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Lisa's misguided but enlightened self-interest lets us like her in spite of her guile, and Clark — a water-polo-playing B.M.O.C. who could have been just a meathead in a Speedo — has layers that neither Lisa nor he himself quite understands.
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Quite lacking the sinuous guile of Wilson or the shamelessness of Blair, Cameron hoped he wouldn't be held to his referendum promise, or that, if he was, he would win a vote for Remain—a widely shared view, it must be said.
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There is an attempt to offset these online antics with a threat from the physical world, involving Sorrento, but the balance between high technology and low sublunary guile, so finely achieved by Spielberg in " Minority Report " (2002), is all but absent here.
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Maneuvering quickly and with guile, Mr. Xi is moving to secure approval for the change at a planned vote Sunday by the National People's Congress on abolishing a rule that since 1982 has restricted the country's presidents to two five-year terms.
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Only a few months before this disaster, The Economist was still hailing the "dynamism, guile and vision" of Anatoly Chubais, the politician whose sale of Russia's assets to oligarchs had by then made him the most despised public figure in the country.
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There's nothing all that strange about it, really: the names are unfamiliar and some of the jokey bits are mystifying if you lack the cultural context, but NJPW gets to the elemental appeal of wrestling through pyrotechnical physical storytelling and a complete lack of guile.
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Bangalore and India captain Kohli was at the other end witnessing Kuldeep's misery and would hope his ace spinner will regain both his guile and confidence before India begin their quest for their third World Cup title with a match against South Africa on June 5.
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Cheered on by a packed and rowdy crowd desperate for a British win on day one at the tournament, the Briton showed all the guts and guile he needed to get through two rounds of qualifying, as well as the coaching he does to pay the bills.
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Using his guile and relying on superior conditioning and a stronger serve, Wawrinka defeated del Potro, 7-6 (5), 4-1423, 6-3, 6-2, to take his place in one semifinal of the United States Open, where he will face No. 6 Kei Nishikori on Friday.
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Joule might have been another Jade from Beyond Good & Evil: a whip-smart female protagonist whose likability stems not from her looks or cool move set, but how she tackles the problems before her and uses guile and ingenuity as effortlessly as she does a firearm.
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His "Save the Plaza" campaign was conducted with such inspired persistence and political guile that he kept the jobs of 350 union employees, won an increased severance package for the rest and preserved the Grand Ballroom, the Oak Room and the Palm Court from wanton destruction.
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In reality, it's party organs are less institutionalized and under the controlling influence of Kim Jong Un. Kim's heredity accession alone ensures that his rule differs from other leaders who climbed the Soviet party's greasy pole with guile and competitiveness but without familial networks paving the way to power.
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I suspect the gentility also has something to do with how the game itself has evolved over the last quarter-century: What used to be a battle of finesse and guile is increasingly a test of strength and endurance, full of three-hour matches and 210-shot rallies.
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Read: China Moves to Let Xi Stay in Power by Abolishing Term Limit Read: How Xi Jinping Made His Power Grab: With Stealth, Speed and Guile Abolishing term limits showed that Mr. Xi wants to stay in power, unrivaled, far past the decade that his predecessor held office.
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Jalal Talabani, the Kurdish leader who used pragmatism, guile and an outsize personality to navigate a hazardous course in Mideast politics, surviving guerrilla war, the terrors of Saddam Hussein and shifting alliances to become the first president of Iraq under its postwar Constitution, died on Tuesday in Berlin.
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It can be hard, nearly a century later, to remember the innovation of Calder's mobiles, but "Calder: Hypermobility," a high-spirited showcase on the top floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art, goes a long way to recapturing the guile and peculiarity of his spinning wires and discs.
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McKay, staying close to the historical record (and drawing on books by the journalists Jane Mayer and Barton Gellman), propounds a negative great man theory of history, telling the story of an individual who was able, through a unique combination of discipline, guile and luck, to bend reality to his will.
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It is acclaiming its ability to hold onto power and prevent democratic change; its skill and guile in the successful oppression of the Chinese people; and its formulation of an incoherent ideology that weds Maoism to hyper-capitalism, the abuse of the Chinese people, and imperial exploitation of other states.
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It's not just that she steals the occasional bit of cash from the guests at her mother's motel, or that she so easily deploys "artful deliberateness" in her dealings with her school principal, or that her beauty, charm and guile make her "mesmerizing but terrible" to the men she meets.
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" He added that he didn't believe in preapproval in any case, but that in a situation in which a reporter, for example, was trying to do a story on a vulnerable person, someone "with no power or guile" who was not at all press-savvy, "I wouldn't be outraged at the question.
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That Mr. Cruz lasted this long anyway was a triumph of management guile and considerable hustle: No Republican campaign more effectively marshaled its finances, holding the most cash on hand for much of the race, and no candidate worked harder than he did, frequently dashing through six events a day in Iowa.
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James M. Nederlander, who, with mercenary guile and an admittedly plebeian aesthetic, presided for nearly half a century over a theater empire that encompassed as many as 10 houses on Broadway and stretched across the country to California and across the Atlantic to London, died on Monday in Southampton, N.Y. He was 94.
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Through the years, Ms. Bush's music has encompassed operatic agility, folky delicacy, hard-rock power, cabaret guile and global rhythms, while her lyrics have featured or alluded to characters from history and literature (Joan of Arc, Molly Bloom from "Ulysses," Peter Pan) as well as anonymous but affecting archetypes: parents, children, dreamers, mystics.
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They both leave such lasting impressions in brief scenes — Narducci in a flashback (one of the few not from Frank's perspective) in which she barely flinches when her husband, played by Joe Pesci, comes home covered in blood, and White when her husband Jimmy, played by Al Pacino, marvels at her political guile and ruthlessness.
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Weigel knows that romantic love is a matter of luck, not necessity; that no amount of good looks or studied guile can guarantee love, or keep it healthy; that male-on-female dating culture is deeply unfair, which is infuriating even when it's not harmful; that social dynamics run through personal relationships in ways that cause heartbreak and reproduce harm.
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It is a credit to the guile of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.) and the tactical foolishness of the Democratic caucus that confirmations now occur this way.
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Future's "Mask Off": The Bill Nye the Science Guy theme: A holiday flavor, with Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You": Meme-inception edition, with the Walmart yodeling boy's sweet melody: Even the theme song for Guile from Street Fighter: They even inspired several spinoffs: And, lest we overlook it, it's important to note that the meme only works thanks to the unbridled enthusiasm of the dancers themselves.
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Speak to almost anybody who was playing video games in the early 222s, and they'll have a story about when and where they first came across Street Fighter II. Chances are that they first played as Ryu or Ken, Guile or Dhalsim on the 21952 Super Nintendo port, which sold over six million copies worldwide and was Capcom's highest-selling individual piece of software until Resident Evil 221 passed it in 21964.
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EditorsNote: adds first reference for Connor Hellebuyck in 14th paragraph Copp, Little help Jets rally past Blackhawks CHICAGO — Playing their fourth game in six nights, the Winnipeg Jets relied on some guile to continue their season-long mastery of the Chicago Blackhawks Andrew Copp and Bryan Little scored 133 seconds apart late in the final frame as the Jets rallied to record their fourth win of the season over the Blackhawks, 5-3 on Thursday night in the teams' final game before the All-Star break.
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