In confident prose that is clever without feeling too worked over, Mr. Black, 40, delivers a thorough chronicle of his own failings, embarrassments and vulnerabilities.
She opens her actress kit here and pulls out every winsome gesture she has ever used: knees together, feet apart, eccentric girl style; mouth poutily open; voice heading into the nasal passages when she is being clever but feeling nervous and uncertain.
The result, while clever, has a feeling of hollowness.
Tom is a self-consciously autobiographical figure, but one throwaway line of Serena's — "And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful" — could be an animating truth for McEwan as a writer.
And here I was feeling clever about cutting a 55-gallon drum in half to use as my fire pit.
The game's creators seem to have put a lot of work into building the experience in a way that makes it easy for novice players to jump in, but that also ramps things up with a pace of increasing complexity and introduction of new mechanics that will leave players feeling clever and accomplished.
She was sunny, funny, clever, bright and feeling well.
Sam Wollaston of The Guardian liked the episode, considering Curtis' dialogue to be "witty and clever" and, despite feeling that some of the moral sentiments expressed during the episode were "as schmaltzy as sugary gloop", described how the emotion of the episode eventually got to him.
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