How To Use Canny In A Sentence

It was a brave gamble, a bid for power, by an ambitious, clever and canny politician who saw his career facing a premature end.
Except for the fact that his hair was a solid black, the thin, slight boy of about fifteen or sixteen bore an uncanny resemblance to Kunihiko.
There is also an uncanny correlation of azimuthal phases between $\ell = 3$ and $\ell = 5$. Science Press Release Synopses
There is an uncanny resemblance between this reasoning and that which had earlier led John Dalton to an atomic theory of chemistry.
As a lightweight, he carried a pretty solid wallop to go along with his uncanny ring generalship.

He has an uncanny feeling for being in the right spot at the right time and the opposing goalkeeper can only watch and cry. The Sun
He earned the sobriquet from an uncanny ability to always pick the right stocks. Times, Sunday Times
An uncanny silence descended on a school as pupils made a superhuman effort to clamp their lips tightly shut.
stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures
Some canny moves in the three weeks until the end of the current tax year can save you thousands of pounds. Times, Sunday Times
Tax can eat into your returns so canny investors make us of the available tax breaks.
I don't think they're being "canny", just complacent. Going to war
Well, the only thing is he is so extraordinarily responsive and sensitive to any move that I make that it's uncanny.
Yet for almost two hours he carried the crowd with genuine charm and a canny knack of making his fans feel like friends. Times, Sunday Times
We are not told that they are Scotch, endowed though they undoubtedly are with some of the canny and thrifty characteristics of the dwellers ayont the Tweed. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
There was an uncanny lack of sound for an attack until about fifty yards in front of the gate when the warriors took up a battle cry that sounded like a dull roar.
Golden eye or yellowtail grunts, chubs or scads would move unhurriedly across, changing direction with uncanny synchronisation.
Like its conceptual cousin, the uncanny, it delimits the boundaries of certainties about identity and experience.
These guys were clever, canny combatants, and they had good media advisors!
Perhaps it is actually a canny psychological technique for dispelling any last minute doubts.
I never, in the whole course of my life, was fond of lending the sanction of my countenance to any thing that was not canny; and, even when I was a wee smout of a callant, with my jacket and trowsers buttoned all in one, The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
40 Poems, ballads, and images suggested an American picaro, a raffish trickster and canny businessman, whose slick tongue and sharp wit made him impossible to trust fully.
Humankind possesses this uncanny ability to survive in the face of adversity!
Wearing a flesh-coloured foam helmet that gives her the proportions of a newborn, Lee performs an uncanny imitation of a baby in this almost dialogue-free exploration of the mother-child bond.
I have this uncanny ability to recognise some of the most obscure actors.
One of his more uncanny talents has been the ability to capture the zeitgeist before we even knew it was upon us.
His uncanny, unmistakable style crossed Cubist austerity with lush Surrealism.
Well, I do not believe there is much of a correlation, but if you really think about it, the fact that Wilson has been described as 'canny' reflects his vast magical knowledge. Georgia congressman: Wilson's outburst 'carefully calculated'
Despite the penny-pinching attitude of canny Scots, a recent report revealed that Scotland is one of the best-value regions for getting married in Britain.
Not ATHFcreator andMeatwad voiceDave Willis — who did briefly hop on the phone to say, without a tremendous degree of confidence, thatan Aqua Teen movie sequel is scheduled for 2011 – butthe actualMeatwad, who talked abouteverything from havingCase guest on his recordtothe uncanny similarity between George Lucas and Santa Claus. Exclusive: Meatwad announces the 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' Christmas album | EW.com
But I also do think that she's kind of canny, too, because I think she understands that her own celebrity right now is sort of bigger than politics. CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2009
For this he often uses extremely closed and narrow space like a labyrinth that is made with cardboard. It causes an uncanny experience to the audiences who hesitate ones' next step in the dark space.
She has an uncanny ability to understand my mood - she just gets me. The Sun
He hated how his uncle crept up silently on him; it was both eerie and uncanny.
To achieve a properly aged look for the new floor Canny had it installed without any sealant or protection.
People these days have an uncanny ability to smell deceit of any kind. Christianity Today
It also suggests a canny ability to sublimate some of the social energy and anxiety toward the secondary ‘desire’: to recreate a difficult problem as easy solvable.
This little pill targets cancer cells with uncanny precision.
The ca'canny has dealt a paralysing blow to the economy and plunged the export industry into crisis.
For the next two weeks, the fully autonomous robot, which bears an uncanny resemblance to a Volkswagen Beetle, will plumb the previously inaccessible microbial mysteries of the sinkhole -- or "cenote" -- El Zacat√≥n. NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: May 2007 Archives
Canny buyers will seek the latter. Times, Sunday Times
She speaks with uncanny timing in the most doggone delicious accent, and sings with irresistible sorcery.
A canny Canadian internet user showed the potential of online trading systems by gradually bartering a paperclip into a three-bedroomed house.
His talent at piloting was uncanny and he had spent his time mooning about the docks, watching the skimmers.
Here I am in a boat, with fellow fisherman, Hal, pitting my newly acquired skills against the canny trout.
Not a devastating puncher, the charismatic Baby Bull, more than makes up for it with uncanny speed of foot and hand.
The actor finds an unstrained vocal pitch that is as uncanny as it is hilarious. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
They were mopping up after a crisis that bore an uncanny resemblance to the one we lived through recently. Times, Sunday Times
But there is a second condition necessary for the production of the uncanny in fiction, a condition less psychological than narratological.
Why, a Scotch sort of a gentleman, as I said before," returned mine host; "they are all gentle, ye mun know, though they ha 'narra shirt to back; but this is a decentish hallion -- a canny North Briton as e'er cross'd Berwick Bridge -- I trow he's a dealer in cattle. Rob Roy — Volume 01
This may go down as a canny move but for now simply looks provocative. Times, Sunday Times
They have an uncanny knack of toppling the walls that society or circumstance build between people. Times, Sunday Times
Their uncanny and unfailing ability to make life as difficult as possible for themselves. The Sun
Most special-effects experts say "Benjamin Button" successfully crossed the uncanny valley, a term credited to roboticist Masahiro Mori, whose landmark article on the subject was translated into English in 1970. Is It Brad or Is It Fake?
I thought that here was a fit illustration for a fairy tale; then I remembered the Colonel's account of how he had awakened in the act of entering this romantic plaisance, and I was touched anew by an unrestfulness, by a sense of the uncanny. Bat Wing
So really, uncanny is a good translation in some ways, but unhomely gets at the sense from a different direction, starting with the expectation of homeliness, that comfort that comes from familiarity, and then reversing it with the prefix "un. Home and Unheimliche
In an uncanny coincidence, on the night of its premiere Ferguson scored the only goal of the game in Everton's win over Manchester United.
Buffett once said his job was so easy "a caveman could do it", but filling his shoes is about more than having a canny eye for picking stocks and buying companies. Warren Buffett closes in on choosing his successor
The grinning German was outwitted by a simple tactical switch from the canny Saints boss which turned this thrilling encounter on its head. The Sun
His seemingly uncanny ability to accomplish more than an ordinary mortal could achieve would thus be explained. LION IN THE VALLEY
Through the rest of the dinner he was silent, a prey to that dark exultancy, to that uncanny agitation. The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
He hated how his uncle crept up silently on him; it was both eerie and uncanny.
He has an uncanny knack of noticing things that seem to have happened yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
The sly, literate prose filtered through wavering vocals still dwells in corners of life either too big or too small to express with such uncanny eloquence.
There is a canny innocence about it that is either very funny or grimly laddish. Times, Sunday Times
In the enlarged versions, one notices his eye for composition and design, as well as his uncanny ability to monumentalize his sitters.
But worse things were to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller's wife's ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party -- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other. Archive 2008-04-01
Both shows start with the results of an actual business or challenge and it is uncanny how, in the face of those factual results, people still look to blame others, the circumstances, the economy, the weather, the "bitchiness" or some other failing of their partners or teammates. James M. Lynch: Simon Cowell: A True Friend
He is renowned as a canny strategist and has a sharp economic mind, but his dictatorial approach and suppression of human rights worries many.
Those details apart, the parallels were uncanny. Times, Sunday Times
The Captain displays an uncanny ability to sweat and smoulder simultaneously, and boasts a command of German that goes above and beyond the conversational.
There are different kinds of intellection, and I think some of them are much more canny about tacit, implicit knowledge, than about scientific or explicit knowledge.
Longer, gentler cooking brings out a low, earthy sweetness in chard, collards, or kale, an uncanny flavor that plays well with other things grown close to the ground.
Stravinsky would produce a second masterly score for the 1911 season when Fokine choreographed Petrushka, the sad, sinister tale of a puppet which provided yet another vehicle for the uncanny talents of Nijinsky. Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance
He has an uncanny knack of noticing things that seem to have happened yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
It's almost uncanny how similar they are as bodies in motion. Times, Sunday Times
The bonus is excellent handling and roadholding, with great steering responses and that uncanny ability to make a series of bends seem like a straight road.
And in the process instilled in us some uncanny, extremely unique, weird and peculiar inability and incapacity to fathom how this place works.
Active, inquisitive, resolute, and possessing a fair share of the national _perfervidum ingenium_, not without some tincture of those elements of the Scottish character known as the "canny" and the "dour," our worker early developed that robust vigour of mind and body which has so long stood the wear and tear of severely trying work. God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada
It's just that the store's canny buyers have done the seeking for you. Times, Sunday Times
Belinda is a handsome woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to John Cusack.
Nonetheless, it has an uncanny ability to disturb. Times, Sunday Times
His reading of poetry was vast, his memory for it almost uncanny. Times, Sunday Times
The Bedlington Terrier is often described as a "lamb on a leash" because its unique blond, curly hair and soft, round features give it an uncanny resemblance to the farm animal.
And then there was a blinding flash of brightness before his eyes, like fireworks exploding in uncanny profusion, blue, yellow, green, red. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Yet for almost two hours he carried the crowd with genuine charm and a canny knack of making his fans feel like friends. Times, Sunday Times
He just has that uncanny knack of knowing where to stand to get his chance and taking it. The Sun
So might we see some Morningside matrons walking past The Canny Man pub swathed in 26 metres of silk with batwing sleeves?
Cullen is a cautious and canny politician and it is unlikely that he was on a complete solo run with his comments.
He just has that uncanny knack of knowing where to stand to get his chance and taking it. The Sun
Something in that fresh, but uncanny, laugh of hers, which bounced off social proprieties. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
In terms of Irish stereotypes, Beowulf seems like a Gaelic rather than a Celtic piece of art - canny, virile and earthbound rather than dreamy, spiritual and involuted.
When the pressure of wages and despair drive the workers to go on the offensive, they lead to the uniquely British phenomenon of the ca' canny.
Clinton had an uncanny ability to sense the pulse of the nation.
Golden eye or yellowtail grunts, chubs or scads would move unhurriedly across, changing direction with uncanny synchronisation.
We may quite allowably heighten the above picture by supposing that the person in her trance, in addition to being mad, might have displayed some of the perceptive powers occasionally developed in trance; and so have evinced, in addition to her demoniacal ferocity, an "uncanny" knowledge of things and persons. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
Although he was one of the lankiest point-guards in the game, Gates had the uncanny ability to power his way through the competition, almost as if he was programmed to do so. The Toque
She had stretched out a wilted hand, peering with an expression canny, severe, and resigned. Son of a Witch
Today they read as uncanny reflections of our own unstable, uncertain age.
As she told Glenn Campbell on Sunday, it takes a year to pass such a Bill - more than enough time, perhaps, for a certain canny First Minister to sell his idea of independence (see the quote at the top of the page) and cash in on people's lack of confidence in the Labour Party. Archive 2008-05-01
Again and again he was saved only by the uncanny accuracy of his shooting.
For this, Canny plans to fill inkjet cartridges with electroactive polymers that contract when zapped with a voltage, enabling components to flex in desired directions. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » P2P Desktop Manufacturing
However, the bird has uncanny precision when it comes to eating mixed birdseed.
The originality, the indefatigability, the uncanny sense of self-promotion, the converting of art into sensibility, put him, it seems to me, into the most rarefied circle.
Last year, he thralled and apalled observers when he wore a white suit with black braiding which gave him an uncanny resemblance to late king of rock'n roll. ANC Daily News Briefing
Everyone in Canada will now have the uncanny ability of the chameleon.
I do rely on him because his technical expertise is superb and his ability to predict the future has been uncanny.
He had predicted with uncanny accuracy the result of a snooker championship.
He has an uncanny resemblance to the famous older horror writer. Times, Sunday Times
The wealth brought by his marriage and his canny eye for business between them enabled him to amass a substantial fortune.
To her they seemed inhuman and uncanny. Emily Fox-Seton
Cardiff is just the place to expand your culinary horizons, meet your canny Celtic cousins and do a little name-dropping.
Considered by many to be one of the strongest technical rikishi ever, Takanohana dominated the dohyo with an uncanny right-handed belt grip and an aggressive style that marked him for sumo greatness.
Even then he would have failed, had it not been for the patient's catlike vitality and almost uncanny physical and mental grip on life. THE END OF THE STORY
It is an uncanny phenomenon; the culture we placed our faith in is hounding our freedoms.
It seems that marathons have an uncanny knack of being run on the hottest days of the year. Great Sporting Failures
It was starting to be unnerving, this ability of his to judge her with such uncanny accuracy!
I'll miss your uncanny ability to find a new way to annoy the living bejeezus out of me every week.
She is still the same efficient and self-obliterating mainstay of the kitchen that she ever was, but she grows more "sot" in her ways, more averse to any change in her daily routine, and more despairing of ever finally and completely capturing that canny old Scotsman whom we still so affectionately designate as The Prairie Child
The sales are for canny, cash-saving injections that will repopulate your wardrobe for the new year. Times, Sunday Times
It seems that marathons have an uncanny knack of being run on the hottest days of the year. Great Sporting Failures
The longstanding and canny leader of this rebellious crew is set to step down this summer.
And if his shot had an unorthodox release—generating as much sidespin as backspin—it also had uncanny range. Pistol
Miss McKay, canny though she might be, was no Mrs Grundy. Spotted Hemlock
Their uncanny and unfailing ability to make life as difficult as possible for themselves. The Sun
His rival's uncanny instinct outmatched his own methodical approach.
One of his more uncanny talents has been the ability to capture the zeitgeist before we even knew it was upon us.
The boy possesses the uncanny ability to eat like an elephant and remain as skinny as a stick.
If we take care to see this, if we are canny enough to attend to it and faithful enough to lean into it, then the particular ache of that waking can initiate a response that the Greeks were wont to call kenosis -- an emptying. Scott Cairns: Moments That Wake Us Up
And yet there was something uncanny about the meeting. The English Civil War: A People's History
Maisie's ‘wondering’ consciousness becomes the medium of a perverse animation, an uncanny crossover or transmutation between animate and inanimate, person and thing.
You can barely hear the music over the carping, which appears to be getting louder as her debut album approaches: a cynic might say that's just as well, given the recent Saturday Night Live appearance in which she demonstrated her uncanny mastery of the vocal style deployed by Ian Brown during the Stone Roses' later years – she honked like the foghorn on Portland Bill lighthouse. Lana Del Ray: Born to Die – review
The man has an uncanny grasp of the public mood and once again he seized it, reminding us all how right we were to re-elect him as Prime Minister at the last general election.
An uncanny light seemed to be coming from the castle.
Sahni was most impressed with him regaling the passengers with an uncanny ability to hold them with improvised speeches.
It could be a texture, a fabric or a taste that turns into the next trend thanks to the innovative and canny eye of a creator. Times, Sunday Times
Again he read her with uncanny accuracy. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
Some people seem to have an uncanny ability to grow personally regardless of their apparent setting.
his uncanny sense of direction
Nevertheless, Canny concluded that vessels embolize and refill while xylem-water pressure is in the range of - 0.2 to - 0.6 MPa.
The whole poem is rich in such complementarities, in binary oppositions and contradictions, all meticulously calibrated, uncanny and unstable. The Times Literary Supplement
Closer scrutiny reveals their raw, uncanny ability to represent the complexity and fluidity of human identity.
Not having to give verbal commands seemed uncanny at first, but before long it just seemed natural.
Apparently from the very first episode of "Work of Art," clues to the identity of the eventual winner were baked into the show -- a kind of adumbration that is in fact seeded throughout all reality shows by their canny, all-knowing producers. ARTINFO: "WORK OF ART" RECAP: The Next Great Artist Was Chosen on TV, as Since Time Immemorial
In keeping with Scottish traditions of frugality and a canny eye for making a penny, the Freemasons who designed it felt that it would be of much more use if it remained relatively unembellished.
With uncanny instinct they have ducked out of the herding area into a region where hunting is almost totally banned. Times, Sunday Times
Representation, the art of transferring reality to the page, means re-presenting the real in its uncanny fictional form, in a way that makes it easy for us to forget we are reading black and white markings on a sheet of woodchip and not in fact looking through a hidden window onto the world. American Wife « Tales from the Reading Room
But perhaps the more canny readers can indeed read backwards from these general remarks and dimly perceive the vestigial outline of the example which occasioned them.
The investment looked canny as the market for gadgets and toys aimed at adults keeps growing.
I took a few courses on statistics and understand how these things can happen, though they seemed to happen with such frequency that it seemed uncanny.
Perhaps a canny printer pulled a proof from the Heidelberg and stowed it till now. The Times Literary Supplement
Within Blade of Tyshalle Stover illustrates in several sequences why he is, in my mind, the current preeminent describer of action sequences in speculative fiction, depicting actions that produce gruesome results with uncanny and realistic precision. Blade of Tyshalle by Matthew Stover – review
The series demonstrated once again that Ferguson has an uncanny knack for turning controversy into lucre.
A psychoanalytic reading suggests that horror movies play on our individual nightmares, and specifically our fear of death and dissolution, which Freud called unheimlich or uncanny.
Either that, or something uncanny had gone on in the hours between her being snapped at an afternoon perfume launch and the moment she left. The Sun
In the meantime, and if you have the room, it is canny to prepare your half-hardy annuals by acclimatising them to being outside. The first taste of spring – at last
But long-running rumours are developing an uncanny knack of coming true at the moment.
Working high up a mast on the end of a yardarm isolated in the expanse of the southern ocean, it was an uncanny experience to eyeball one of these creatures.
“Teil care an they did,” said Donald, “an that were the warst o’t, for we have a wheen canny trewsmen here that wadna let us want if there was a horned beast atween this and Perth. A Legend of Montrose
He said gossip and canny office politics were far more common activities for men than most people realise.
That is what they called Sean Quinn - canny conglomerateur to his friends, wily rogue to his enemies and, until recently, the richest man in NYT > Home Page
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Must have been pretty intense,' he suggested with uncanny accuracy. Times, Sunday Times
But Paisley was hewn from an equally tough working class background, was just as canny, had the best transfer market record, and won the European Cup more times than the rest of them combined.
like honey, or how much we have read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees posses, we have a horror of being.
For example, first I would talk about synchronicity and uncanny coincidence and tell her little anecdotes about that from my life.
Sounds emitted from the bushes: weird uncanny sounds made by unknown animals, for all sorts of things lived in forests.
` ` Teil care an they did, '' said Donald, ` ` an that were the warst o't, for we have a wheen 'canny trewsmen here that wadna let us want if there was a horned beast atween this and Perth. A Legend of Montrose
And how far must the buyer beware, the saver exercise canny mistrust and the walker test the bridge? Times, Sunday Times
He had this uncanny ability to slide tackle. The Sun
He has this uncanny ability to understand the periodic table. Times, Sunday Times
Though bavardage accounted for much of the general knowledge of every one's affairs, there was an uncanny mystery in the speed at which a particular secret spread. Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
But worse things were to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller's wife's ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party -- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other. Archive 2008-04-01
I accede to your uncanny powers of prognostication.
He has proved a canny investor in restaurants. Times, Sunday Times
In terms of Irish stereotypes, Beowulf seems like a Gaelic rather than a Celtic piece of art - canny, virile and earthbound rather than dreamy, spiritual and involuted.
Skeptics say he needs to improve his blocking, but his size and uncanny ability to find openings in defenses will certainly get interest. BYU - Team Notes
He is an incredibly able businessman who has an uncanny ability to tap into all possible sources of finance.
This retrospective procedure has an uncanny import; by challenging us to discover its encrypted relationship to rhyme, the poem suggests that rhyme somehow operates inherently within articulation itself, even when, or especially when, the ear is unaware. Rhyming Sensation in 'Mont Blanc'
You have an almost uncanny feeling. Times, Sunday Times
He has this uncanny ability to understand the periodic table. Times, Sunday Times
The hero, Danny, bears an uncanny resemblance to Kirk Douglas.
This point, or ebb, is called the uncanny valley - see the chart below. Archive 2008-12-01
There is an uncanny resemblance. The Sun
He has an uncanny resemblance to the famous older horror writer. Times, Sunday Times
She used her earthy wisdom and uncanny discernment with kindness and humanity, seasoned with an enjoyment of the absurd. Times, Sunday Times
With a queer uncanny innocence, he seems always to have taken this one thing for granted.
Dyer's mystical demonism accounts for the ambivalent, exhilarating, and uncanny dimension of his architecture.
That impresses me but not as much as his uncanny expertise on the topic of game and quiz shows.
A mixture of reef sharks and bulls, they have an uncanny ability to appear behind you or materialise from behind a coral head only feet away.
He delights in tracing similarities of metaphor, suggestive accidents of fate, portentous parallels, uncanny coincidences, and unexpected connections.
Their uncanny and unfailing ability to make life as difficult as possible for themselves. The Sun
The confidence and burly purposefulness behind a 25-yarder that beat David Seaman and inflicted defeat on a resilient Arsenal were uncanny in a 16-year-old Everton substitute. Guardian writers choose their favourite Premier League goal
the dancer was praised for her uncanny extension
They had uncanny ability to know where each other was on the football ground at any time of the match.
I'll settle for just saying no because kids kind of frighten me with their unpredictability and uncanny ability to spread disease. Elfpvke Diary Entry
Palin excites the energy companies, she excites the 7th day adventists and the other people who believe we are living in the biblical end times but anyone who truly cares about America will avoid her like cancer due to her uncanny ability to say the dumbest things ever heard in American political history ... Palin plans 'aggressive' fundraising push
People these days have an uncanny ability to smell deceit of any kind. Christianity Today
Their presentation is not so much media-shy as canny.
Camp and canny, what a smooth rabble-rouser she is. Times, Sunday Times

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