Sentence examples for clever figure from inspiring English sources

Lady Lucinda says he was as magical as he was malign, a totally bewitching, terrifyingly clever figure who had an undoubted streak of evil.

The boys are described as "two lobes of the same brain": Gregory is physically brave and a smart aleck, while Brian is timorous but cleverer, figuring things out before Gregory does, just in the nick of time.

"Fidel Castro has been the most skillful and clever political figure in our history," said Elizardo Sanchez, a leading dissident whom Mr. Castro has imprisoned three times for a total of eight and a half years.

Clever chimps figure ways out of enclosures.

I can't believe it's been so clever to figure out how to survive without seven organs and 70 nodes.

(Clever businesses figure out ways to play on our desire to conform while feeling like non-conformists: See this Samsung ad for its Galaxy phone for a great example).

The film's central figure in this remarkable film was Gary Findon, one of the cleverest boys in an exceptionally clever form at Harrow County Grammar.

Mr. Allsop was small and dark, like Frances, easily bored, and clever with figures.

Clever Hercules figured out he could wrestle it to the ground and strangle it.

"There is a psychological dimension, and I think some clever companies figured out how to tap into this".

But there's still a problem, because what happens is those insurance companies are pretty clever at figuring out who are the younger and healthier seniors.