Sentence examples for argument clever from inspiring English sources

By calling the argument "clever" I don't mean to signify agreement with it.

His delivery was relaxed and confident, his arguments clever and optimistic.

Leibniz's argument is clever at the outset: he bypasses the thorny problem of determining whether Newton's idea of absolute space commits him to thinking of space as a substance a view, incidentally, which Newton explicitly considers and rejects in De Gravitatione (Newton 2004: 21 2)—by presupposing only that Newton thinks of space as existing independently of objects and their relations.

("His arguments are clever rather than convincing").

He thought his argument as cunning and clever, but the reality is it's cliche and pointless.

Socrates encourages Phaedrus' enthusiasm for clever argument, and by careful example shows him first, how the argument can be technically improved, the stuff of the CBOC, via the general rules of effective persuasion.

It's a clever argument.

Here is what a real scientist, Dr. Andrew Dessler, says about this claim: "This argument is rhetorically clever but scientific nonsense.

"Well, if you want to define it that way, I've not got a clever argument to oppose it," he replies.

There is no reason because every reason usually given in support of tenure and academic freedom has been shown to undermine itself in the course of this quite clever argument.

Perhaps Dorine's most clever argument comes when she warns her boss that if he forces his daughter into marriage, she is likely to stray, and in so doing lose her place in heaven.