Sentence examples for Clever tack from inspiring English sources
So they took a rather clever tack.
Arguably, fashion's "come-on-in" approach was long overdue: whatever brands felt they gained from being exclusive, most would probably agree that inclusivity is a far cleverer tack, particularly in the social media age, where to be seen as private or exclusionary is often perceived as a negative.
There is even Class 2000, an escort service that urges Yellow Pages readers, "Let us take you to the next millennium!" These New York businesses, and hundreds of others have hit on the once-clever gimmick of tacking millennial cachet to an otherwise ordinary name.
Two hours more elapsed before the fight began, Blakely having tacked and attempted to pass to windward of his enemy; Manners, much too clever to surrender any advantage p156 needlessly, had tacked at the same time, and standing from the American, had foiled him.
They don't seem so clever now, these tenants of culturalism who criticize us for tacking ideals foreign to them on these countries.
Academics can explain most of it, and the only reason they cannot explain all of it is because they are not clever enough to think of the missing factors.However, it is also possible to take the opposite tack.
What the White House hadn't reckoned on, and only exaggerated by its attempt to be clever, was the enormous attention the press would pay to the statement--even though it was simply tacked on the White House pressroom bulletin board.
