Sentence examples for by cleverness from inspiring English sources

His discography is an unbroken sequence of adolescent crudities almost entirely unredeemed by cleverness or wit.

In short, we suspected that "Carol," like "Far from Heaven," was holding its vision of the past in quotation marks, too chilled by cleverness to bother with our hearts.

He believed, by the end, that he was on the side of the people he censored; that by cleverness and disdain for the rules he operated he was really helping the artists.

At one extreme there was the picaresque novel, with its implicit satire of a society in which one could make one's way by cleverness and roguery rather than by honest work that is, if one did not happen to be born a nobleman.

Have you picked up on the way that a lack of soul is covered by cleverness, giddiness, childishness?" That is all true.

"In short, I wouldn't put anything up that I wouldn't want everyone to see, and I want certain people to get much more out of it than others, and for those certains to be impressed by my cleverness tempered by restraint".

The songs here by Bowen have a line by line cleverness, but none of the tunes have memorable melodies and they soon blur together.

This is the war in Afghanistan today, where death is measured less by the accuracy of bullets than by the cleverness of bombs.

It may be that somehow the benefits of indirect interaction will be annulled by some advance in direct input, or by the cleverness of a generation of UI designers working in a mouse-optional world.

He was back to being cheerful, impressed by his cleverness.

It's easy for us to get by on cleverness, but this feels risky".