Sentence examples for a clever gambit from inspiring English sources

It is a clever gambit.

The maneuver was blocked by the Delaware Supreme Court, but it was still a clever gambit that highlighted why the details matter in deal-making.

There is a difference, however, between gimmicks that exist merely to capture crowds (like having a middle-aged movie star take off all her clothes) and those provided by Mr. Ayckbourn's current comedies, where what at first seems like just a clever gambit actually deepens your response to the productions.

He turned out to be the Kennedy person at Sterling Coo, even though in season one he had dutifully come up with a very clever gambit to help Nixon.

Many Web commenters fretted that all this coverage of Colting, who wrote the book under the pen name John David California, had simply rewarded his clever gambit, giving a bit of fan fiction the kind of free publicity that most writers only dream of receiving.

With a parliamentary majority of just three votes for his Socialist Party government, Papandreou appears to have seen a referendum as a clever political gambit.

Sebastian Mallaby, a global economy expert, was right when he wrote in The Financial Times last week that the rich should pay higher taxes, but "a clever campaign gambit is a poor substitute for a serious proposal.

5 14 p.m. | Updated THE great designer shoe wars of Manhattan retailing have escalated at an astonishing pace since 2007, back when Saks Fifth Avenue, in a clever marketing gambit, announced that its expanded footwear department was so large that it deserved its own vanity ZIP code, 10022-SHOE.

In this bloodthirsty atmosphere, Gilligan has made several clever gambits to keep the show watchable, including swivelling background characters into the spotlight, where they can absorb the sympathy we once extended to Walt.

A clever base-running gambit here, a thwarting of a double play there, and torrents of runs would follow.

John Pultz, an associate professor of art history at the University of Kansas, and Anthony W. Lee, an associate professor of art history at Mount Holyoke, the show's curators, have latched onto the family album theme to tie all these disparate works together, a clever but vain gambit that is sometimes unintentionally hilarious.