But not all manifestations of American wiliness are so openly cynical.
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What it lacks in gargantuan size it makes up for in sheer wiliness.
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And then, of course, there was his political wiliness, his sheer genius for survival.
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Fredendall would approve of the elder Kellogg's wiliness in applying this advice to his son's depression.
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If it took some wiliness to remain in their jobs, then perhaps some compromises are worthwhile.
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Levada died, in 2006, gloomy about the prospects of his country ever transcending its culture of wiliness.
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" However, as the Putin system becomes ever more authoritarian, "the cost of wiliness goes up ever more, and its benefits become less and less.
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She brought elegant and pining emotion to Dalila's great aria "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix," though I wanted a touch more wiliness in her singing.
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Kingmaker As Mahathir showed this week, however, his age has not dented in the slightest his political wiliness and ability to play all sides at once.
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He displayed exceptional wiliness Saturday in using his 6-foot-8, 205-pound frame to receive the ball in the low post and back his defender down.
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No longer expected to be the main man in the midfield, Rosicky gained a certain foxy cunning, a vulpine wiliness which allowed him to operate between the lines.
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Kennedy's wiliness to side with liberal justices on issues such as affirmative action, abortion access access and same-sex marriage infuriated judicial conservatives and they'd relish the opportunity to replace him.
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On his watch the parliament will not enjoy the stature it did under the bruising Mr Schulz, but after the collapse of the grand coalition, wiliness may be more important than charisma.
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Fire Kid has even shown the willing and wiliness to dig deep and grind out a decision when necessary, like in his close, née controversial, split decision win over British talent Brendan Loughnane.
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The danger is that wiliness quickly becomes a self-perpetuating spiral, as Levada warned, with the excuses and justifications served up by wily men and women only serving to embed these pathologies ever deeper.
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Now, granted, she doesn't know about the White Walkers just yet, but she also clearly underestimates the wiliness of Cersei, or the willingness of similarly desperate players to try to get on Cersei's good side.
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He ruled for 30 years, during which the Maldives won its image with tourists as a coral-island Eden, but his wiliness failed him when he was ousted in the islands' first democratic election, in 2008.
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After spending a long stretch of time back in the United States, I see clearly that Levada's description of "wiliness" has become an intrinsic feature of a large and growing swath of American politics in the Trump age.
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Friday's summit and Kim's planned meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in May or early June were arranged after Kim recently expressed a wiliness to put his nuclear program up for negotiation after a year of nuclear and missile tests.
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The cost of rejecting wiliness was made clear when the chairman of the group that organizes the Conservative Political Action Conference , Matt Schlapp, said he would worry about the physical safety of Mitt Romney if he showed up at the conference.
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Now, with over 10 years under his belt in the UFC, Edgar has a sense of veteran wiliness which doesn't see him dragged into slugfests which had previously seen him left in trouble like in his two title fights against Gray Maynard.
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And that is the scary thing about observing wiliness at home: how readily and quickly we bend, not when there is truly no other choice, but when there are plenty of other choices, the wily one being merely the easiest and most expedient.
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The fox is never depicted as Zorro's emblem. It is used as a metaphor for the character's wiliness, such as in the lyrics "Zorro, 'the Fox', so cunning and free..." from Disney's television series theme. His heroic pose consists of rearing on his horse, Tornado, often saluting with his hand or raising his sword high. The logo of the company Zorro Productions, Inc.
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The war serves only to further diminish Falcone's influence in Gotham. During The Long Halloween, the weakened Falcone family is targeted by a serial killer named Holiday. Falcone demonstrates his wiliness by using a careful mix of murder and influence to protect his family from police investigation.Batman: The Long Halloween #3 The situation changes when Batman and Dent discover one of Falcone's warehouses, containing millions in stockpiled cash.
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Brereton's suicide causes Todd to question his new profession. Todd and Castiga again meet at the plantation home of the Colonel's daughter Barbara (Burnham), both having gone there to break the news of her father's death. Castiga's wiliness makes Barbara believe that Todd is an intruder and the cause of her father's ruin. The trouble between the men results in a duel in which Castiga cheats and is driven out of town.
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Lakunle interjects, informing them that Baroka was known for his wiliness, particularly when he managed to foil the Public Works attempt to build a railroad through Ilujinle. Baroka bribed the surveyor for the route to move the railroad much farther away as "the earth is most unsuitable, could not possibly support the weight of a railway engine". Lakunle is distraught, as he thinks just how close Ilujinle was to civilisation at that time. The scene cuts to Baroka's bedroom.
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Variety wrote one of the film's "sole relatively weak notes [came] from Holmes, who lacks even a hint of the wiliness of a ruthless reporter" and The New York Times said the cast was "exceptionally fine" except for Holmes, who "strain[ed] credulity" in her role.David Rooney. Review of Thank You for Smoking, Variety, September 19, 2005, pg. 63 The film ended up a success, even earning a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy.
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Like other rural stereotypes, teuchters commonly feature in jokes (Billy Connolly has performed and recorded a sketch where a teuchter visiting the city marvels at a bus as "a hoose wi wheels") though such stories often end with the apparently naive teuchter triumphing through hidden wiliness. The archetypal cartoon teuchter is the cartoon character Angus Og, created by Ewen Bain. A teuchter is the hero of Scottish musician Bill Hill's The Portree Kid, which parodies the song Ghost Riders in the Sky as "The teuchter that cam frae Skye".
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In Uther's edition of the Aarne-Thompson index,Hans-Jörg Uther, The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography, Based on the System of Antii Aarne and Stith Thompson, I, Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2004. this tale type is classified as a folk novella, and belongs to a subgroup designated: "Clever Acts and Words". Eli Yassif defines the folk novella as "a realistic story whose time and place are determined ... The novella emphasizes such human traits as cleverness, eroticism, loyalty, and wiliness, that drive the plot forward more than any other element".Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning (Folklore Studies in Translation), Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999, p.
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Based on Jeffrey Toobin's The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the season explores the O.J. Simpson (Cuba Gooding Jr.) murder case as well as the combination of prosecution confidence, defense wiliness, and the Los Angeles Police Department's history with the city's African-American community that gave a jury what it needed: reasonable doubt. The season also stars Sterling K. Brown as Christopher Darden, Kenneth Choi as Lance Ito, Christian Clemenson as Bill Hodgman, Bruce Greenwood as Gil Garcetti, Nathan Lane as F. Lee Bailey, Sarah Paulson as Marcia Clark, David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian, John Travolta as Robert Shapiro, and Courtney B. Vance as Johnnie Cochran.
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At a young age, Kander was taught from her mother that "home reigned supreme." This concept would carry throughout all of her progressive work. She attended and graduated valedictorian from Milwaukee East High School. In her valedictorian speech, she “spoke of the need to restore economic individualism and political democracy to American cities”. She believed that “social decay could not be entirely blamed on the effects of rapid industrialization, urbanization, or capitalism, but from the general wiliness of women to escape personal responsibility”. Although Kander had progressive ideas, she did not agree with the women’s suffrage movement. It had become an unproductive distraction. Like other female reformers of her time, Kander believed in “municipal housekeeping”.
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In December 1878, a settler called Molvo, with three of his men, were killed near Cloncurry, at the important Wonomo watering hole on Suleiman Creek near Cloncurry, as they camped with their herd. This was the starting point, in indigenous history, for Kennedy and other settlers in the district joining forces with native troops under Inspector Eglinton stationed at Boulia to war down the native tribes of the region. Subsequent to this incident, scores of Kalkatungu in the surrounding hills were shot down. Over the following years, the Kalkatungu gained a reputation among graziers for tactical wiliness both in resisting police and settler forays against them, and in harvesting the cattle game they found on their lands.
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Bliss’s understanding of Christian Socialism and its fit with “genuine political socialism” is a point of contention, however, for many radical Marxist historians. Although his ideas were distinctively separate from and more radical than the popular social gospel thinkers who merely wanted progressive reform, many scholars still do not want to label Bliss’s ideology to be socialist because it lacked real radicalism. Despite condemning capitalism as a dangerous plutocracy founded on economic individualism and his demands for an entirely new political economic order, many historians still find Bliss to be too moderate for socialist standards because of his wiliness to work with progressive reform centered institutions. These scholars argue that Bliss and other Christian socialists of the day offered watered-down versions of socialism due to their practical goals, respect for unions and the insentience on gradualism. Bliss’s willingness to work with the Knights of labor, the populist and other less radical political affiliations push critics to assert that Bliss was not only comfortable with simply achieving small piecemeal reform but that he thought this was the most effective way to achieve a socialist society.
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