Once upon a time important men weren't supposed to be too obviously clever; the technical brilliance of someone like Mr. Summers or the I.M.F.'s Stanley Fischer would in itself have marked them as unsound.
But some clever people at Brilliance Jewelry totally went there, creating a fantasy world in which the ladies of "Downton Abbey" join Juan Pablo Galvis on the ultimate quest for love.
Critics' reviews of early SpongeBob episodes praised the show for its wit, clever humor, and "uncanny brilliance".
That alone made many fans of the Ring nervous, as there were suspicions that he would be too clever by half, allowing his technical brilliance to overshadow the only genius they want to shine out of the stage: Wagner himself.
At last an extraordinary flash of brilliance shows a slick, clever new approach, and it takes as many weeks to spot that this won't work either.
What better way to honor their sacrifice and creative brilliance than with these clever 18-inch-tall figurines?
It's a very clever device, a little piece of brilliance, but that's how you identify yourself these days.
It also looks at what it deems 'a spark of brilliance', which could include a clever implementation of a feature, for instance.
The tough, complex and clever of the profession are, for example, portrayed with particular brilliance in the HBO goldrush-era series Deadwood.
