The quick-witted Mr. Ingram's clever wordplays and sly double-entendres made him an idol among his peers.
Many children are familiar with the enchanting mischief of Peter Pan, but at this program from New York City Ballet, they'll meet a character they may not have heard of who is just as clever, charming and sly: Puck.
He is clever, sly and wittily wacky, and now he's what he probably most feared he might become: a mainstream television hit.
Alternately skittish and sly, crude and clever, it is as hard to pin down as a blob of mercury.
He's not a fierce, confrontational rapper; he's slick and sly, someone who wins by being clever.
The most elaborate of these images are exceptionally clever tours de force, but even the simplest have undeniable iconic power and sly insight into the pitfalls of masculinity.
The soundtrack is clever: unobvious period hits (Donovan, singing "Hurdy Gurdy Man", gains a sinister resonance that can only work in its favour) and sly classical references (that melancholy trumpet solo popping up from time to time is Charles Ives' "The Unanswered Question").
Francis L. Sullivan is tremendous as Mr. Bumble, the workhouse warden who is full of stupidity and greed, and Henry Stephenson is warm and gentle as Mr. Brownlow, the old gentleman who gives Oliver a happy home.As for Alec Guinness' performance as Fagin, it is a vastly clever one harsh, ugly, sly and unwholesome, yet curiously appealing withal.
No one could tell if I was clever, or sly as my grandma had predicted while blowing Benson & Hedges smoke rings over my ma's swollen belly.
