Sentence examples for Seems clever from inspiring English sources

Still, one lesson Texas could take from the 1970s is that what seems clever today may not remain so tomorrow.

The deal seems clever; but other states may reason that DuPont will pay to avoid a trial.Makers of pigments and paints may be only the start.

James: Both of us respond to something that seems clever or well structured but has a vein of stupidity running right through the middle of it.

What seems clever at Westminster, and even heroic in the narrative of insiders, does not work with the public at large.

But the play is full of clunky exposition (in the first scene between Morris and Tamara it takes a while before it's clear they've spent any time together), literary name-dropping (there's an appreciative nod to Philip Roth, whom Morris clearly caricatures) and the kind of inventiveness that seems clever only to a novice.

Javid seems clever, direct, not completely without humour, untainted by association with the past (as he was keen to remind us), and he was always willing to engage intellectually with the question he was asked, instead of taking shelter behind the party "line to take".

This seemed clever at the time.

And sprinting doesn't seem clever, either.

Few of the aristos in his diaries, frankly, seem clever at all.

But if anything, the problem is that Ed Miliband is too clever, unlike Kinnock, who didn't seem clever enough.

"Some projects that seemed clever a few weeks ago now seem utterly inappropriate," Mr. Albrecht said.