What's the difference between cannily and presciently?
Cannily
Definition:
(adv.) In a canny manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the Kumamoto governor was a fan, and cannily waived licensing fees for Kumamon, encouraging manufacturers to use him royalty-free.
(2) This time around, he has eschewed social policy controversies and moved cannily to broaden his base support while pursuing a radical economic plan and an ambitious foreign policy agenda.
(3) America, as John Ford cannily observed in his western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, is a country that likes to build up its heroes and villains and rarely appreciates having the record corrected to restore them to the stature of ordinary, fallible human beings.
(4) Most cannily, the department of philosophy at the University of North Texas announced in 2011 its "Philosophy of Food Project", no doubt having noticed which way the wind was blowing, and presumably hoping that it would be able to trick food-obsessives into hard thinking about other topics.
(5) Richard's adaptation cannily steered a clear path through Juvenal's obsessions – fear and loathing in the Forum – revealing at every turn how weirdly contemporary it all seemed: the rampant sex, the cupidity, the triumph of mediocrity, the social injustice.
(6) The victors were contemptuous of the vanquished – though they cannily retained some key staff.
(7) Cannily, he got her boss, World Bank president James Wolfensen, to pop the question.
(8) Either cannily or madly, the novelist John Cheever took up residence at the heart of the American Dream in a New York suburb, a place more affluent than the one I came from.
(9) Nonetheless, when it comes to other areas of the country, he believes in “thinking cannily and cleverly”, and perhaps negotiating with the Greens and the Lib Dems.
(10) As Worthy Farm's usual residents – 350 dairy cows – were set to replace Glastonbury's 170,000 bedraggled festival-goers, Eavis cannily set the rumour mill rolling for next year's headliners.
(11) Cannily, given how much of the storyline he is made to shoulder, the Andreas Wolf character is positioned as a pre-internet creature, born and raised in communist East Germany, with a commensurate understanding of how systems that claim to liberate human potential can actually constrain it.
(12) She gave birth back in January, and since then Ms Knowles has cannily and pretty successfully rebranded herself as "Earth Mother Beyoncé", following stints as "Bootylicious Feminist Beyoncé", "Sasha Fierce Beyoncé" and "Glastonbury Rockstar Beyoncé" (for the record, I love all incarnations).
(13) And while Jarvis is clearly an impressive, instinctive talent, bringing a prickling honesty to the role, some credit for her success must be given to Arnold for cannily and solicitously allaying the teenager's fears.
(14) If some of these controversies were thrust upon BrewDog – who cannily took full advantage – others turned out to be rather more cynical.
(15) Mary Dejevsky: A leaky argument, despite Cameron’s best efforts This was a cannily judged statement, designed to appeal as much to the better angels of MPs and UK voters, as to their fears.
(16) I had not been using the service cannily, to complete an exhaustive music collection – as Winter had, for instance.
(17) A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health has recently turned its attention to the phenomenon of the supermarket tantrum – a phenomenon so soul-piercing that, even if you have cannily avoided taking responsibility for a junior member of our species, you'll still no doubt have been touched by it at some point.
(18) Cannily, he has made the move as some of his rivals are busy with deals of their own: Comcast has Time Warner Cable, AT&T is planning to merge with satellite broadcaster DirecTV.
(19) Moreover, Merkel has cannily moved her party to the left, thereby preempting the accusations of neoliberalism that nearly lost her the election four years ago – and squeezing the Social Democrats against the Left party, a motley grouping of former East German communists, renegade Social Democrats and fossilised holdovers from the old West Germany's extreme left.
Presciently
Definition:
(adv.) With prescience or foresight.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the prescient words of a memo written in 1949 by Sir Henry Tizard, the distinguished military scientist, the trouble with Britain having the atom bomb was that it made the country blind to reality.
(2) The duke’s statements about business, which to our tin ears sound like simplistic platitudes of the first water, are in fact fantastically complex and prescient exercises of soft power without which our economy simply could not function.
(3) Most, though, opt for that dreadfully prescient quote, given a few years before he died in a Porsche with a friend, doing 90mph, and after he had shot about half his scenes for the new F&F movie.
(4) Indeed, his 1914 satire on the fashion for eugenic family planning ( The White Hope ) was oddly prescient.
(5) "There may be little point in spending many millions of pounds simply to convert an unpleasant but visible marine poison into another kind of poison that is insidious and entirely unknown in its effects," he presciently wrote.
(6) Artists like Duchamp were so prescient here – the idea that the piece of work is not finished until the audience comes to it and adds their own interpretation, and what the piece of art is about is the grey space in the middle.
(7) It ended up being a prescient move: the game got out of reach early as the Lakers scored just four points in the game's first five minutes and were already down 18 points by halftime.
(8) Commotion Wireless may prove to have been presciently named.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ukip’s rise in the east of England: a world turned upside down – video He then made this prescient statement: “We have got much to sort out in the party … Policy is part of the answer.
(10) The site was laid out by Albert Speer Jr, son of Hitler’s architect, who also planned the Beijing Olympics – a strangely prescient choice, given his father coined the idea of “ruin value” in his grandiose Nazi works.
(11) The convergence, in such a short space of time, of the controversy surrounding the banning of "kill the boer" and the murder of Terre'Blanche is both tragic and prescient; it encapsulates the death of optimism in South Africa .
(12) In today’s context, at the end of a week in which Hillary Clinton has yet again found herself face-to-face with a sceptical press demanding answers about her use of a private email address while working as America’s top diplomat, her robust words almost two decades ago sound uncannily prescient.
(13) Picking Enotiades for the job – rather than Gaye – proved to be a prescient choice.
(14) Someone should point out, in these days when the constitution is so constantly and pietistically invoked, that political parties are not mentioned in the constitution, and that the prescient founders warned emphatically against them for reasons that should be clear to us now.
(15) Again, back in 2010, it seemed shocking; now, in the midst of a so-called rape culture, it seems horrifyingly prescient.
(16) Calling pensions a "broken market", McClymont presciently predicted that the government would never stand up to this greatest of vested interests.
(17) One slogan, however, was to prove particularly prescient: 'When the Chinese people get angry, the result is always big trouble.'
(18) With the benefit of nearly 250 days of hindsight, Mariano Rajoy’s words a few hours after Spain’s most significant election since its return to democracy appear utterly prescient – if a little on the optimistic side.
(19) The big society revolution, he warned presciently, "would not happen by itself".
(20) Given that the current US president disputes the hard evidence of climate change, I can’t think of a more prescient play for today – one which proves that 30s theatre had depth-charge impact.