Wedlock is wedlock, adultery is adultery, bread is bread, and let us not depart from these facts of life and slide off into any clever definitions that the sword of the Central Criminal Court cannot slice up into honest crumb and crust — for a second, the judge's remote courtesy seemed to part and show this flash of irritation.
If you are Dan Savage, you devise clever definitions of words based on known homophobes, and start amazingly powerful video campaigns.
As with Tocqueville on US democracy, the view is that all genius is merely a quaint variant of French genius, anything clever by definition originating in France.
Nor can anyone but a cockeyed optimist believe that democratic publics are by definition always clever and benevolent.
Accompanying Cameron in India are representatives of a dozen British or partly British-based companies – the industry is clever at blurring such definitions – with defence interests: Rolls-Royce, Serco, BAE, EADS, Thales, Atkins, Cobham, JCB, Strongfield Technologies, MBDA, Ultra Electronics.
(Incidentally, if English is your foreign language, or you merely want to work on English vocabulary, the game-like new $3 app from Vocabulary.com is a fast and fun way for learning English words. The definitions are clever and memorable, and it also uses a form of spaced repetition).
Then came Tom and Viv, an unusually plausible play about literary people, a tragedy on both sides of the Eliots' marital estrangement, with a really clever dramatic discussion of degrees, and indeed definitions, of madness.
Solving this difficulty involves two winning assets: the definition of modular protocol architecture and the clever use of the object oriented [23, 24] software techniques in order to design a modular software architecture.
The proponents of plant intelligence argue that the traditional definitions of these terms are anthropocentric — a clever reply to the charges of anthropomorphism frequently thrown at them.
However, innovation can involve plenty of clever gadgets and gizmos.One way to arrive at a useful definition is to rule out what innovation is not.
