Sentence examples for are very ingenious from inspiring English sources

In the 17th century, Domingo Navarette, a Spanish priest, complained that "the Chinese are very ingenious at imitation.

Yes, some interesting ideas are developed (a couple of scenes where the humans behave as if being manipulated by video-game programs are very ingenious and funny), and he gathers no end of potentially fascinating subjects into the matrix of his central metaphors: Darth Vader, the man in the iron mask, mad cow disease, Hampton Court, the internet, the brain, even the website of this newspaper.

"It's very ingenious.

Yet it is also very big, and man is very ingenious.

I had never seen anyone dry lettuce like that before; I thought it was very ingenious".

It's very ingenious and at some levels, a very devious strategy".

The methods of getting the maps through to the prisoners of war were very ingenious.

But his book is very ingenious, complete with maps, samples of foreign languages, foreign coins and so on.

But the whole world knows the Bush media team is very ingenious indeed when it comes to that kind of less-than-subliminal background message.

"It is true he was very ingenious in mechanics, but it is also well known he was extremely illiterate, and his jokes and sarcasms on the Bible, with which his conversation abounded, shewed the most contemptible ignorance of eastern history and manners, and indeed of every thing".

Reid's view is very ingenious but it suffers from philosophical and textual shortcomings.