It infuses his writing, tempering his cleverness with a good measure of sarcastic honesty. |
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For that moment, her coquettish cleverness and quick, cute remarks melted away. |
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Both are very skilful indeed at reaching out to other people who resent cleverness and learning. |
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I thought the movie would be ok, but nothing could prepare me for the cleverness, the obscene wittiness, and the overall awesomeness. |
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The failure of love punctuates much of the intellectual cleverness of Farrell's works. |
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They want to dominate Europe by bureaucratic cleverness where they could not do so by muzzle-loading cannon, muskets and cavalry sabers. |
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Technically, it is quite masterful, but is at times distracting in its cleverness. |
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The composer can mistake cuteness for cleverness, and like any unabashed sentimentalist, he's often a stone's throw from mawkishness. |
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He is so emboldened by his cleverness that he steps into the store to observe the street and society outside. |
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Although somewhat bleak, it is a graceful affair, lovingly crafted, deeply felt, and spiked with mordant cleverness. |
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Merlin smiled inwardly at the cleverness and competence of his young student. |
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So much ingenuity and cleverness for such stupid and uncomprehending results. |
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This epigrammatic style is fun, but if repeated one becomes aware that it points as much towards the author's cleverness as the subject in hand. |
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Reinventing and inverting images of Irishness, Jordan associates him with intelligence, cleverness, and wit. |
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The cleverness of the report lies in showing how the same trends might result in different outcomes. |
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For this is the cleverness not of cognition, but of excogitation threaded on a string of episodes a bit too thick for credence. |
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He spoke loudly, often exploding into laughter at his own cleverness and compelling attention with a strange stutter. |
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They're embarrassingly on the nose and incredibly douchey in their own self-satisfied cleverness. |
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He thinks he can get anything he wants with charm and honeyed words and cleverness. |
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A few studies of phonaesthetics are well-known for the cleverness of their design and the nebulosity of their results. |
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But, in the end, it is a production in which raw passion is always subservient to intellectual cleverness. |
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It is as this dissonant crescendo of drama builds that the novel's cleverness reveals itself. |
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For the cleverness and sheer volume of his work, many consider Loyd to be the greatest puzzlist of all time. |
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Comedian and geek Samuel Johnson Danny O'Brien has put together a happening of such perfect, involuted cleverness that it takes the breath away. |
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However, her cleverness and talent for witty banter makes it so she never comes across as being oppressed. |
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Animals, such as lions, serpents and doves are used as figures of speech to denote qualities such as strength, cleverness or gentleness. |
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Recently I have begun to wonder if these kinds of tests requiring cleverness instead of steadiness can really contribute to improve their English abilities. |
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Not only is the film a technically impressive feat, the plot so far suggests a certain cleverness on a higher level than a simple, stock genre flick. |
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Its characteristics of intellectualism, timelessness, cleverness, spin, non-contact, heroism, and contemplation are as if specifically designed to fit the national psyche. |
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The wolf is chosen for its reputation of cleverness associated with courage and astuteness. |
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These things cannot be achieved by the cleverness of even the wisest governments alone, nor by the natural workings of the free market. |
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As with any instrument, the results will be only as good as the effort and cleverness put into its use. |
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One can still appreciate the incredible cleverness that went into the illusion, especially the use of radio-controlled devices and early animatronics. |
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The decision makers are the same: brand owners, who expect from us industrial cleverness, practical ingenuity, solutions, innovation. |
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Mind without heart, intelligence without conduct, cleverness without goodness: all these have dangerous flaws. |
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He not only insisted poems appear in all lowercase but took other liberties with line breaks, punctuation, parentheses, which often amounted to a tricky cleverness. |
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The compelling visuality of the work of art resists appropriation by either the cleverness of historical explanations or the eloquence of descriptive language. |
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Are we just drawing a crowd through our own ideas, strength and cleverness? |
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And yet, many of her sentences struck me as showy, or straining toward cleverness. |
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I once asked David to add his presence and cleverness to a nice and a very social charity committee. |
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As if to defy the Depression, newspapers put a premium on cleverness, challenging readers with ballades and triolets, rhyming versions of operas, travelogues in verse. |
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To disappear is an act of humility, for sure, but it's also an act of cleverness, I would almost say of slyness. |
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With cleverness and perseverance, she undertakes a major investigation into Zak's childhood. |
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They masquerade as intellectual contests, but are really just showcases for rhetorical cleverness and public charisma. |
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You dispose of all the skills of a successful sales expert like communicative strength, presentation assurance and negotiation cleverness. |
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However, ultimately we have to recognize that earnings from business are also a Divine blessing, and not just the fruits of luck or of our own cleverness. |
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Its cleverness is in the way the handle is angled to suit the curves of a lavatory bowl, while the top of the holder is slightly dished to catch drips. |
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In fact, many kinds of cleverness are just further obscurations. |
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But behind all this extravagance and humour there is a very serious problem which is described with insight and literary cleverness. |
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He relied on his cleverness and sneaky ways to stay ahead of every one. |
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He niftily circumvents the real issues, to do with educational content and assessment, and instead focuses on the abstract virtues of cleverness and hard work. |
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Her methods of double-dealing had become more and more refined over time, and through cleverness and acts, and she was never caught by either side. |
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So he runs off for freedom and is done in by his own cleverness. |
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She can play with words but she does not hide behind cleverness and wit. |
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It is an exercise in cleverness, a kind of trick performance in which the disputer attempts to make a case for a claim that everyone knows does not fit its object. |
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Its general state of repair together with the cleverness of its restoration and layout make it a place to live that is not only extraordinary but also worthy of merit. |
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At one extreme there was the picaresque novel, with its implicit satire of a society in which one could make one's way by cleverness and roguery rather than by honest work that is, if one did not happen to be born a nobleman. |
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Numerous stylistic options are attached to decor: its richness or sparseness, its naturalness or artificiality, its contemporaneity or period look, its cleverness or simplicity. |
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We accredit them with reason, cleverness and amiability. |
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Gifted with unusual cleverness and iron resolution, Leah Rabin talked without circumlocutions, going straight on to the very heart of the matter with no worries about pleasing anyone. |
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To see these pictures of Valenzin it must be acknowledged that the cleverness of this painter is to make Venice romantic, without becoming it simpering. |
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The aim here is surely simplicity over tricksiness, not cleverness but a kind of artless grace. |
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I approach different types of movement, expressive, sensitive and emotional to create dance performances where reality and fiction, truth and lies, cleverness and idiocy come together. |
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Or I read there's no jokes and it's just about cleverness of structure and then I read a criticism of the last series that it was an obvious bid for mainstream acceptance by being full of jokes. |
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Dieter's squadron of toy soldiers and Mounted Police are now a living regiment and battle fiercely against the menacing mice with cannons, swords and every ounce of cleverness they can muster. |
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Especially when designers compete with one another with great cleverness in three fields: tube printing, development of new functionalities with mainly the use of new applicators, and the design of new shapes! |
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After all, music, to the average person, is not a matter of cleverness. |
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Idea leaders have to exercise initiative and cleverness. |
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So we have the traditional association of characteristics with certain animals: the courage of the lion, the patience of the elephant, the cleverness of the fox. |
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The fact that we won the air supremacy anyhow can, in retrospect, be clearly credited as much to German failures to think in air concept as to our own cleverness. |
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One of its negative effects is a tendency towards cleverness and love of complication for its own sake, which has led, as noted earlier, to the creation of ever more complicated financial instruments. |
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For this purpose, genius is insufficient, cleverness is irrelevant. |
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What masks the overworn nature of Wallace's observation are the density and cleverness that shrouds the writing. |
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In the later books, some respect is evident for the cleverness of the old emperor in securing his position. |
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They are also boasters and threateners and are fond of pompous language, and yet they have sharp wits and are not without cleverness at learning. |
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Continues to lead by example, play with enthusiasm, cleverness and usual wholeheartedness. |
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The story is a classic of doggedness, cleverness, and a little luck. |
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You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. |
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Rohr's best observations are always aphoristic and incisive, reflecting not mere intellectual cleverness, but profound contemplative experience. |
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Some may dismiss the iconic work as simply a crowd-pleaser, but that would overlook its cleverness and heart. |
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The maddening nature of the punishment was reserved for Sisyphus due to his hubristic belief that his cleverness surpassed that of Zeus himself. |
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Cornford 1961, 120, further claims that the imposter is exposed by an ironist, who 'masks his cleverness under a show of clownish dullness. |
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The maddening nature of the punishment was reserved for King Sisyphus due to his hubristic belief that his cleverness surpassed that of Zeus himself. |
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Figures also showed that chinchillas and degus have had the biggest influence on a child's cleverness, with 55 percent of children owning such pets feeling more intelligent. |
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And lots of cleverness that relies to a great extent on knowing that 1950s-60s scene that was the nearest Britain got to America's Beat Generation. |
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Bah. Though to delve further into its postviewing meanings may be food for cleverness, C. to C. is at no point remarkably interesting as movement. |
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