Sentence examples for clever beast from inspiring English sources

It's a clever beast with a petrol engine and not one but two electric motors, plus something called an "epicyclic" hybrid system and four-wheel drive.

Ian McShane's Swearengen is a murderer, a monster, a clever beast you cannot help being drawn to; he wears a pin-striped suit over long johns, which emphasizes his hugely thick neck and his large head — he's an unstoppable wall of man coming at you, episode after episode (except when he is pitiably felled, temporarily, by a kidney stone).

The panel's four scenes include one of the first appearances of what art historians call the nude bearded hero as well as figures and creatures that presage the Holy Trinity, the minotaur, and the clever beasts of Aesop.

Zoologist Clinton Hart Merriam described raccoons as "clever beasts", and that "in certain directions their cunning surpasses that of the fox".

Despite its vague title, "One Life" holds a clear focus across its transcontinental series of short, dramatic segments: the intricate survival behavior displayed by the planet's cleverer beasts (and one plant).

Fey, who was pretending (or, please God, not pretending) to be drunk, giggled and replied, "What?" Alex Garland almost wept, as his movie "Ex Machina," a small and clever creature up against far bigger beasts, took the prize for Best Visual Effects.

This clever and wicked beast could crush the Khaleesi's trio of winged squirts like Cadbury Creme Eggs.

Racism and White Supremacy are clever and daily beasts.

They are both very clever, outwitting the wild beasts who would attack the old woman.

The verses in Belloc's "Bad Child's Book of Beasts" and "More Beasts for Worse Children" are clever, but, to me, they lack the inspired nonsense of the "Cautionary Tales," and the only one I still quote with irritating frequency is "The Crocodile," whose closing six-line crescendo spreads over five illustrated pages.

The company's first game, Beasts of Balance, was another clever hybrid of AR and real-life board-game action.