Sentence examples for clever and effective from inspiring English sources

AGES 12 AND UP -- The mix of small town and world event is clever and effective.

Blaming middle management or the finance function is about as clever and effective as shooting the messenger.

Flattery is a clever and effective element of diplomacy, and Apple knows how to take a compliment.

This is a rather monumental claim for the clever and effective marketing tool that clusters represent, and Weiss never approaches substantiating it.

Made for just $1m, Insidious doesn't reinvent the wheel but it does deliver clever and effective shocks, with a spooky twist that Wan expressly asks to be withheld.

As always, Mr. Nakata's plotting is clever and effective, but the film lacks the emotional core that made the suspense of "Ring" and "Dark Water" meaningful.

An independent breakout needs to be clever and cost effective.

The technique used by the author, in telling the story from multiple narratives, is both a clever and wickedly effective one; the novel wouldn't have been worth half of what it is had it been told from the perspective of only one of the two protagonists.

He called the bottles a "clever and cost-effective" way to confront the rise in violent crimes at pharmacies.

Designs of individual experiments can be clever or innovative, intuitive, powerful, straightforward or complex, naive or sophisticated, and effective or inappropriate.

I've been incredibly lucky to work with some really clever chairs, who have shown me what it means to be a good and effective leader.