Sentence examples for clever elder from inspiring English sources
"It's like having a terribly clever elder brother at school – it sets a competitive standard," she says.
Jasper is fly and clever while his sporty elder brother, Leon, is quietly protective and together they pass the time as best they can.
Elder called the film "exceptionally clever, hilariously gloomy and bitingly subversive".
On the topic of his son, the elder Mr. Jackson seems for once to be without a clever phrase to crystallize a situation, and at one point this summer slipped away from reporters through the back kitchen of a hotel.
Clever and perceptive, Mehmed VI became sultan July 4 , 1918 and attempted to follow the example of his elder brother Abdülhamid II (reigned 1876 1909) by assuming personal control of the government.
He said: "We learn from our elders that education is sacred … I consider children in Yolngu schools to be as clever as anywhere else in the wider world … they should have equal rights, the same as any in the world".
Tintoretto turns the "Danae" into a clever joke, then, as if realizing he's wasting his talent, paints an image of "Susannah and the Elders" so surrealistically sensual it all but clears the room.
In the story of Susanna and the Elders (also 2nd century bce), a charge of unchastity levelled against a beautiful woman is refuted when a clever youngster ("Daniel come to judgment") points out discrepancies in the testimony of her accusers.
