Sentence examples for clever act from inspiring English sources

People who don't know Paula might say her strident anti-doping position was a clever act.

But Laws' clever act in sucking in the two defenders and then off-loading at the critical moment was equally crucial.

In what seemed a clever act of gamesmanship, England made sure that Brazil would be thinking about its next opponent even before their match with Belgium could begin.

While he chuckled at the suggestion that Take Back the Park was a clever act of reverse psychology to work Phillies fans into a ticket-buying lather, the campaign succeeded in getting the attention of both fan bases.

Which is all a long way of saying, man: Charles Barkley saying he's not a role model wasn't just a clever act of purposeful contrarianism by the Nike ad wizards.

This is not simply a documentation, or even a story, of two sheik's delivering two sermons, but a clever act of civil disobedience, using religion and public space as a conduit.

Its plans are full of clever acts of urban dentistry, with excavations and stitches in the right places to make the whole thing work better.

Nonetheless, his clever balancing act, on the line between the theatrical and the banal, continues to elude definition.

What might appear at first to be a clever balancing act soon becomes an excruciatingly painful case of the splits.

Girls Aloud, the devilishly clever flagship act of the producer Brian Higgins and his Xenomania production team, generally doesn't release records outside Britain.

Here, series creator/writer Mitch Glazer winningly evokes the mood of the day in a clever balancing act that is downright original if not awfully nice to look at, too.