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She is positively hedgehog-like in her reifying of fox-like strategic expediency to reach her ends; Danny Alexander, the Lib Dem chief secretary to the treasury, signed off on the health reforms because he thought that was what he should do, but he is now opposed to the health reforms because that is now what his party has decided he should do.

Inside politics: Suddenly David Cameron's cabinet is looking rather foxy | Allegra Stratton 2011

What's needed isn't a fox-like plan to lessen the damage from the Republicans' destructive economic vision.

Arianna Huffington: Why America Is Deeply in Need of a Good Hedgehog Arianna Huffington 2011

What's needed isn't a fox-like plan to lessen the damage from the Republicans' destructive economic vision.

Arianna Huffington: Why America Is Deeply in Need of a Good Hedgehog Arianna Huffington 2011

They had triangular faces, fox-like, and the hard thin build of angry people.

THE ORCHID marci stillerman 2010

When she slanted him a probing look, he blinked at her, looking as innocent as his fox-like little face would allow.

The Devil Wears Plaid Teresa Medeiros 2010

Something about his expression made her wary; he had that devilish look he always got when he was keeping a secret, that made his sharp features look even more fox-like.

Elephant in the City 2010

There's something of Isaiah Berlin's hedgehog/fox debate in this – with American actors being the hedgehog who knows "the one big thing" (how to immerse themselves deeply and powerfully in a character), while British actors show more fox-like versatility – the risk being that they will lack that same quality of weight, or depth.

Are British actors the best in the world? Edward Kemp 2010

These are all legitimate philosophical techniques, fox-like techniques, that accept objectivity as something beyond our grasp and truth as something that is arrived at through dialog.

» Kingwell vs. Florida? • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape 2008

Because the ideas that he is hawking serve a political purpose, what was probably once more fox-like reasoning seems very hedgehog like.

» Kingwell vs. Florida? • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape 2008

For example, fox-like people would find "politics more cloudlike than clocklike" and they would agree with statements such as: "Even after making up my mind, I am always eager to consider different options" or "when considering most conflicts, I can usually see how both sides could be right."

Barack Obama Is A "Fox," Not a "Hedgehog," and Thus More Likely To Get It Right 2009