Though his tone was respectful, sometimes obsequious, he was also canny.
It seemed to me his canny eyes to be honest to some extent that I got moved somehow.
Many blockbuster products have their roots in bright ideas, rigorous research and canny marketing, rather than luck.
It can be an energy drainer and canny decorators avoid using too much lime and olive greens because of their association to sickliness and envy.
Still, the canny investor will doubtless keep up to date with all developments, political and economic, to chart the most trouble-free path through foreign exchange.
I woke up earlier and opened the frige for some drink when I sensed a pair of eyes fixing in my back, so that turned around to find Larry seated in sofa who were studying me with his canny eyes.
It's another canny move.
Italy's 74-year-old prime minister, first elected 16 years ago, is a famously canny fighter.
Yet persuading these canny, experienced buyers to sell is not for the faint-hearted.
Does the canny Mr Mukherjee hope to achieve more liberal progress than he has so far promised?
Most people think of the 1930s as an economic desert littered with foreclosure signs and unemployment queues. But for the canny few it was a huge opportunity.
But it is not clear how Labour will fit in, as the party's traditional industrial base shrinks and its former Scottish heartland is dominated by the canny Scottish nationalists.
People who know him call him a canny guy.
Mr Kilicdaroglu has proved himself a tough and canny operator, but he may be distracted by internal dissent for months.
This increasingly fevered quest for the authentic can in truth be a mug's game, if only because the visitor's 'reality' is sometimes a local's canny business plan.
Wind erosion, rain erosion and canny are the most serious of and the most widely distributing damages in the ruins of the Jiaohe. The collapse is the most dangerous damages for the Jiaohe Ruins, it direct influence safety of the site, must be reinforced at the first place.
That canny piece of negotiating will ensure that Mr Thain remains a hero to some.
Second, the body of words that carries your story into the world is the work of the craftsman's labor, which is as conscious, as canny, and as practical as that of the bricklayer.
His lawyer, Harper Steger, looked very shrewd and canny to them.
It has been canny with its liabilities, too: over a third of its deposits pay no interest, a trade-off its small-business clients are willing to make in return for sharp service.
It raises the question of whether Mr Buffett is as canny an underwriter as Ajit Jain, who runs his catastrophe reinsurance business.
He was far too canny to risk giving himself away.
The government has been canny on police reform so far, but it still has a fight on its hands.