Are the Coens profligate geniuses or clever, cold-hearted pranksters?
A popular and clever work, Cold Comfort Farm was awarded the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1933.
A clever, though cold, operator, his great merit for the unpopular Mr Sarkozy is that his darker dealings have already been exposed.Although French foreign policy will remain firmly in Mr Sarkozy's hands, Mr Juppé may have a bit more freedom than his predecessors enjoyed.
The book's structure and grand themes — the slippery nature of time; the connectedness of past, present and future; the fluidity of identity; the yearning to be understood and remembered, to understand and remember — might have made it too tricky, too clever, too cold.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Geoffrey Rush, below, are entangled in a web of machinations in John Boorman's clever post-cold-war spy film "The Tailor of Panama," based on the 1996 John le Carré novel.
"Saturday Night Live" hilariously skewered the sanitized takes from President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr in a clever three-character cold-open about what is known so far about special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
People used to believe in things.' She's an odd one, this rather cold, rather clever woman.
Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen — and ends with revenge, served cold and clever: iced zinger, if you will.
Young Hans Christian adored Edvard and expected from this clever, successful, yet rather cold and conventional person a reciprocation it wasn't in his nature to give.
All he's got is a gooey vision of big government somehow being better than a cold and clever free market system. .
This is a clever novel but a very cold one.
