He also made certain that the conference was peopled in his favor and the very involvement of the Privy Council, that included Robert Cecil and other men that depended on the king for their place, shows that James was
slyer about this conference than Allister McGrath for example gives him credit for.
Transported tradesmen should be dealt with most harshly of all, because they must naturally be sharper,
slyer, more dangerous, than their less skilled fellows.
There are English gags about Prince Charles, Tom Jones, Riverdance and, of course, the French, but you can't but feel they've been sculpted to be more obvious to American sensibilities, losing Aardman's
slyer, subtler humour in the process.
But Sharon is
slyer than anyone else in Israeli politics today.
Effron, Jordan Gans-Morse, John Hughes, Rashad Hussain, Benedict Kingsbury, Matt Rice, Robert Shaw, Christi
Slyer, Laurie Straus, Eric Truett, David Weinstein and Lee S.
She has to decide whether God even wants her mind, or only her uterus; if, on balance, she thinks God does want her mind, she has to get used to using her head (a humbler,
slyer skill than using her mind) before she uses her body.
The songs still edge to the side of love's getting and losing, but they betray Jewel's burgeoning sell whose view is
slyer, less wide-eyed, and more accepting of the world around her, a sharp contrast to the "change the world," well, neo-folkie intonations of Pieces of You and Spirit's deadly earnest poetry.
It incubates what Mark Steyn described as "the
slyer virus": "the vague sense that the West's success must somehow be responsible for the rest's failure." It is in effect a sort of secularized Jansenism: we are always in the wrong, not in the eyes of God but in the eyes of the exotic Other as imagined by us.
(90.) Mark Steyn, "The
Slyer Virus: The West's Anti-Westernism," The New Criterion 20, no.
