| To that end he fills the screen with clever-clever little homages to a great era in French cinema. |
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| The clever-clever double casting of Bonnevie serves only to emphasize Alex's callowness. |
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| It's almost too clever-clever, but gets away with it by skipping along regardless and still being hilarious even on repeated listens. |
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| It could be that a fashion for clever-clever post-modernism has drained the soul from our playwrights and the politics from their writing. |
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| Inside is where the real source of the problems comes from, thanks to the clever-clever iDrive system. |
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| Maybe his character is some oblique clever-clever reference to Japanese theatre. |
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| I'm a big fan of Magic In Theory and Practice, as it's basically full of plain speaking rather than the usual Crowley clever-clever obfuscation. |
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| It's a concentrated, half-hour shot of intense guitar noise and clever-clever couplets. |
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| The clever-clever developers get all the kudos for coming up with the idea in the first place. |
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| She knew from experience that this was no device, no clever-clever ruse designed to reveal her true character. |
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| Continental European theatre is sometimes accused of being auteur-ish, clever-clever, dismissive of its audience. |
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| So, all this clever-clever stuff that isn't about a showboating chef but the romance of good food. |
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| Those are the universes where people thought that Mighton's stage play was a miserable flop, a clever-clever intellectual exercise with no emotional weight. |
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| His percussion, shouting and bonhomie always provided respite from Pavement's cat's cradle song structures and clever-clever lyrics. |
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| Internet geeks will rejoice at the latest clever-clever web campaign. |
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| An intriguing concept, spoilt by too many literary references and clever-clever comments. |
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| It's less clever-clever than Fantastic Playroom but no less sharp. |
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| It's clever without being clever-clever, arty without being arty-farty. |
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| The difference between clever-clever talk and the appearance of a real awareness is desperately fine, and I do not guarantee to be right in my diagnosis every time. |
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| But there's nothing clever-clever about Trigger Warning, which is rocket-fuelled by Coombs Marr's in-yer-face black comedy as Dave struggles to loop the audience into his gynephobia. |
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| Also, you look at what's now on TV in terms of comedy and a lot of it is this clever-clever, satirical stuff which can go over people's heads and not give them a belly laugh. |
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| This is clever, but not clever-clever, entertainment from start to finish. |
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