Sentence examples for a clever action from inspiring English sources
In 2011, Occupy Melbourne activists highlighted the ridiculous nature of camping bylaws with a clever action involving tent monsters.
It built to a clever action finale that was amusingly over the top and set to the music of the William Tell Overture in a very satisfying way.
One of the most audacious American movies of 2009, Jared Hess's "Gentlemen Broncos" (on DVD from Fox)—a loopy comedy that blends frumpy down-market vulgarity with excremental humor and cartoonish, yet astonishingly simple and clever, action sequences is hardly the type to attract Oscar consideration.
Toynbee said this showed that "quick and clever" action targeted against the "right popular issue" works.
One of the most audacious American movies of 2009, Jared Hess's "Gentlemen Broncos" (on DVD from Fox) — a loopy comedy that blends frumpy down-market vulgarity with excremental humor and cartoonish, yet astonishingly simple and clever, action sequences — is hardly the type to attract Oscar consideration.
But there's a clever addition – the action takes place on three planes which Max can leap between using special launch pads.
iPhone / iPad Robbery Bob 2: Double Trouble (£2.29 + IAP) The original Robbery Bob was a clever mix of action and strategy, as you snuck around a bunch of houses trying to burgle them without being caught.
The novel's cleverest action maneuver involves the use of an S.U.V.'s global positioning system to retrace someone else's travels along this same investigative path.
Doug McVitie, chief consultant at Arran Aerospace, a consulting firm in Dinan, France, called the Pentagon's action "a clever move by the U.S. government to get itself off the hook".
It features some low-rent animation but a clever combination of live-action Bill Cosby offering jokes and commentary and the cartoon characters (many of whom he voiced himself) made the series very fresh.
Or is it a clever re-framing of comic action to appeal to a wider, perhaps even more discerning audience?
