| He spoke loudly, often exploding into laughter at his own cleverness and compelling attention with a strange stutter. |
| He is so emboldened by his cleverness that he steps into the store to observe the street and society outside. |
| 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. |
| Comedian and geek Samuel Johnson Danny O'Brien has put together a happening of such perfect, involuted cleverness that it takes the breath away. |
| For that moment, her coquettish cleverness and quick, cute remarks melted away. |
| For this is the cleverness not of cognition, but of excogitation threaded on a string of episodes a bit too thick for credence. |
