| 单词 | wiliness |
| 例句 | It was largely because of his habit of marching troops all over the Shenandoah Valley in an illogical and inexplicable fashion that Jackson earned a reputation among bewildered enemy officers for wiliness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z His portrayal exposes both the pride his character takes in his own wiliness and his growing shame over his tendency to compromise his conscience and cut deals with enemies. 'Bent' exhibits enduring power of love, courage and identity 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z They combined their experience and wiliness to solve a murder that had remained a mystery in a 1973 episode of “Mannix.” Mike Connors, brawny star of ‘Mannix’ TV detective series, dies at 91 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z To her credit, Andrews doesn’t turn Kate’s wiliness into outright villainy. Charles is king, Harry's in trouble and Kate's taking charge in Pasadena Playhouse's royal winner 'King Charles III' 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z In a Moscow crawling with surveillance, the task required not just courage on his part but wiliness on theirs. Review: In ‘The Billion Dollar Spy,’ David E. Hoffman Recalls a Cold War Spy 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z However, as the Putin system becomes ever more authoritarian, “the cost of wiliness goes up ever more, and its benefits become less and less.” Three Books on the Enigma That Is Modern Russia 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Instead, she was brilliantly unnerving and frequently very funny, her angular face a disarming mix of intelligence and wiliness that made her the perfect choice to play competent women in extreme situations. Anne Heche Onscreen: Wily and Funny but Also Unnerving 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z As the Black Rat, Midder hits the right notes of wiliness and stoicism. Review | ‘Native Son’ gets a 90-minute stage adaptation, with a Black Rat in Bigger’s ear 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Not only do useless men sow the violence Desna and Virginia survive with appealing wiliness, they also don't understand the artistry that goes into a great manicure. On TNT's New Soap, Utopia Among the Manicurists 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z At the same time, he gave an impression of wiliness, as though he knew something no one else knew and then looked away to laugh at us inside. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Ms. Morrison is dead-on about Clifton’s wiliness and brains, but you sometimes have to look for these qualities in her work. Books of The Times: ‘The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010’ 2012-10-11T16:46:12Z She embodied the willfulness and wiliness of a spoiled brat, yet she also made Salome's hideously perverted sexual awakening seem almost pitiable. Nina Stemme triumphs in `Salome' at Carnegie 2012-05-25T14:04:09Z Anne Heche was brilliantly unnerving and funny onscreen, with intelligence and wiliness that served her in playing competent women in extreme situations. The Ultimate Summer Playlist 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Instead, it’s a chronicle of wiliness in defeat and the unlikely escape of a shrinking ragtag volunteer army from military professionals who vastly outnumbered them. In ‘The Hero’s Way,’ Tim Parks retraces the steps of Garibaldi, the great general, across Italy 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Through wit, grit, wiliness and determination he wrought one of the greatest resurrections in American politics. Perspective | Nixon rehabilitated his image. Could Trump? 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Instead Arsenal attacked United with a wiliness in the clinches, the full-backs working furiously, the midfield ferreting hard. Arsenal fire warning to Spurs that race for north London has not yet been won | Barney Ronay 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z He’s made it work with wiliness and a makeover. Clayton Kershaw and Dodgers agree to extend deadline on option decision to Friday - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z On “Meet the Press,” NBC’s Chuck Todd asked Trump about his wiliness to substantiate odd claims with bogus proof. Asked about conspiracies, Trump admits, 'There's no proof of anything' 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z 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. The president of the Maldives has lost all legitimacy but kept his job 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z On “Meet the Press,” NBC’s Chuck Todd asked Trump about his wiliness to substantiate odds claims with bogus proof. White House: Trump 'believes in making sure that information is accurate' 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Trump’s budget is likely to face an uphill fight on Capitol Hill, where even lawmakers in his own party have already shown a wiliness to ignore the president’s fiscal priorities. Trump budget slashes money of clean air and water programs 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z What Klitschko had was wiliness, along with his jab, which has long been one of the sport’s most effective weapons. The Brand-New Biggest Star in Boxing 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z 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. The European Parliament’s new president represents a shift to the right 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z The county continues to spray for Aedes aegypti, which the mayor called the “cockroach of mosquitoes” because of its wiliness and hardiness. Zika Cases Rise in Miami, and Officials Try to Soothe Fears 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z On “Meet the Press,” Chuck Todd asked the candidate about his wiliness to substantiate odds claims with bogus proof. Donald 'All I Know Is What's On The Internet' Trump 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z The other is that the main premise of his campaign — that his wiliness in the business world will translate to wiliness in politics and policy — is bunk. Why is Trump upset? It’s because Cruz is schooling him in the art of the deal. 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Although Cole was occasionally sluggish in his movement, his power and wiliness provided Celtic with a presence to play off up front. Stranraer 0-3 Celtic 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z He has rediscovered his running game, kicked well and shown the composure and wiliness garnered from more than 100 tests. The Keys to Victory at the Rugby World Cup Final 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z In the typical epic, the star is a fox—Reynard, Renard, or whatever, depending on the language—with his unwavering wiliness. The Truth About Animal Stories 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z “The results that they got were promising, no doubt about it,” he concludes, but “I would never underestimate the wiliness of bacteria.” Microbe found in grassy field contains powerful antibiotic 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z But he will need to display a hitherto unseen wiliness if he is to operate independently. A Teutonic union 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z But, with the wiliness that would characterise his career, Yankovic squeezed his way through the crowd and tapped McCartney's shoulder. Weird Al Yankovic: 'I think Robin Thicke was glad I just mocked his grammar' 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Battier calls Miami’s willingness and wiliness at drawing charges “a weapon” to counter Oklahoma City’s attacking mentality. Notebook: Heat’s List of Talents Includes Drawing Charges 2012-06-17T19:58:25Z The cunning and wiliness of the black cat is sometimes highly amusing. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z Though she was fair-haired, with a white skin, she seemed cunning and crafty, though trying to hide her wiliness under the expression of a simple and honest girl. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z I shall not mingle in your dreams, O woman full of wiliness! Reincarnations 2011-08-27T02:00:25.223Z The natives are mostly unable to sign; their features are not readily distinguished by Europeans; and in too many cases they are characterised by a strange amount of litigiousness, wiliness, and unveracity. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z But the fish are either replete and satisfied, or cursed with the wiliness characteristic of their species, for not a float shows any sign of agitation. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Moderate in his approach to Israel and unequivocally against violence, he was the counterpoint to Arafat’s wiliness and eccentricity. Inside the Bid for U.N. Recognition of Palestine 2011-04-24T16:00:00Z Given the average size of an S&P 500, the statistic also speaks to their ability to divest; the wiliness is another issue. Is Breaking Up So Hard To Do, or 5 Will Get You 11 2011-02-23T21:11:27Z We cannot give to the classes the things best for them in other ways, and exclude all tales in which wiliness or subtlety constitutes the method, if not the motive. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z In this life you must be honest, of course, but there is nothing like a little wiliness to help out occasionally. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z The boat was crowded with refugees; but Dalroy, knowing the wiliness of stewards, had experienced slight difficulty in securing two chairs already loaded with portmanteaus and wraps. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 It depends a lot upon the wiliness of the fox he's in pursuit of. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel Perhaps, too, there is a little wiliness in her determination not to name the new servant's parentage just at present. Rossmoyne You see that was the real wiliness of the serpent, my telling him he was in drink. Old Crow Major Morris well knew the wiliness of the Filipinos, yet he did not doubt but that they would pay due respect to a flag of truce which they had themselves invited. The Campaign of the Jungle or, Under Lawton through Luzon Yet, at the same time, they could not help admiring the wiliness which the enemy had shown in thus reserving his fire. A Tale of the Summer Holidays Bobby smiled up at him in smug satisfaction over his own wiliness. The Dominant Strain William was strong and wily, and it was this combination of strength and wiliness which enabled him to bear down all opposition. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII So spake Hermes, winking his eyes and holding the clothes to his shoulders; and Zeus laughed aloud at the wiliness of the babe, and bade Phœbus and the child be friends. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Once again Boer wiliness had been rendered ineffectual owing to execrable marksmanship. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition For Bones was growing in wisdom and in wiliness as the days passed. Bones in London For them Major Forsyth had the double advantage of a wiliness gained in the turmoil of the world and an upright character. The Hero Crick was about the same age as Mellor, with the same love of sport, the same wiliness, and the same indifference to consequences when once an idea had taken possession of him. The Hero of Garside School ‘Isn’t it their work to make people more good?’ continued Phœbe, with an unconscious wiliness, looking more simple than her wont. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster All the people I have seen who came from the South seemed to me to have a great deal of wiliness and foolishness, and no commonsense. Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow Conditions depended upon the eagerness of the military and civil agents, on the number of soldiers stationed at the fort, and on the wiliness of the culprits. Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 No statesman of the age bore a higher character than sir Thomas Smith for rectitude and benevolence, and nothing of the wiliness and craft conspicuous in most of his coadjutors is discernible in him. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth But he did not reckon on the wiliness of Buck Tooth, whose taunts had caused the truth to be blurted out. The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis According to competent observers, these people have shown a capacity for wiliness and a power of divination of the obscured workings of nature and of the human mind which have never been surpassed elsewhere. The Black Man's Place in South Africa I asked with a still further meekness that was the depths of wiliness. The Tinder-Box She was entirely diverted from any desire to follow out or weigh Mrs. Lawrence's remark to her by the wiliness of the experienced Tempie. Andrew the Glad I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom. Frankenstein So he laid snares for them both, and being no less treacherous than bloody, he made use of the cruelty of his nature against Arsames, and of his craft and wiliness against Ariaspes. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Faithfulness and devotion, things born of fire and roof, were his; yet he retained his wildness and wiliness. The Call of the Wild In Genesis it is the serpent who tempts Eve, in virtue of his natural wiliness. Milton All this is of his craft and wiliness; wherefore do thou betake thyself to equity and fair dealing and leave evil and tyranny; and thou shalt fare the better for it.' The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III The evil propensities of our nature have all the wiliness of the serpent, and lurk in their secret places, watching for a favourable opportunity of exercise and display. The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age "That we henceforth be no more children wavering and carried with every wind of doctrine, by the wiliness of men and craftiness, whereby they lay a wait for us to deceive us." The first New Testament printed in English To balance this there were great individual resources when alone,—a sort of Indian wiliness and subtlety of resource. Army Life in a Black Regiment With all the wiliness of a hunted thing, he had slipped off into the forest, terrified to find that his pursuers were so close upon him. The Rose in the Ring So it was among the knights, and those who had outlived all else could still carry to the wars their wiliness, their experience with arms, and, above all, their cool and undaunted courage. Through the Magic Door So consider the craft this woman practised upon me, and I pretending to cleverness and wiliness. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] It was a gallant attack gallantly met, and for once the greater wiliness in fight was shown by the British. The Great Boer War What, in Powhatan's mind, of hesitation, wiliness, or good nature backed his daughter's plea is not known. Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Garnache went about sounding the man with a wiliness peculiarly his own. Saint Martin's Summer The cupidity natural to mankind develops in it; so does diplomatic wiliness; also play of countenance. Beatrix Against this summary verdict the observer sets the beast’s industry, its talent as a weaver, its wiliness in the chase, its tragic nuptials and other characteristics of great interest. The Life of the Spider There were many such men in the republic of Florence, all as great as Strozzi, and as able as their adversaries the Medici, though vanquished by the superior craft and wiliness of the latter. Catherine De Medici No amount of bribery would accomplish that; it would have to be ingenuity pitted against animal force, the wiliness of the fox against the power of the wolf. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel "I could not promise," she murmured, more softly in her wiliness. The Egoist The three women, mother, aunt, and Mariotte, shared in the tender feminine wiliness, which taught them to make much of Calyste when he dined at home. Beatrix His house was not far from that of Etienne, so that he was ever at hand to watch over the youth with the persistent affection and simple wiliness characteristic of old soldiers. The Hated Son Love had already given strength and wiliness to the countess. Maitre Cornelius Do not forget that Soudry, for the last seventeen years chief of police of the canton, was doubly shrewd through his wife, an adept in the particular wiliness of a waiting-maid of an Opera divinity. Sons of the Soil His wiliness was perspicacity; and consisted in foreseeing results and protecting himself and others from the traps set for them. Ursula The groom's gossip set Blondet thinking of the extreme craftiness and wiliness of the French peasant, of which he had heard a great deal from his father, a judge at Alencon. Sons of the Soil |
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