Woody Allen's "Deconstructing Harry" seems merely clever, but its ingenuity glides into something interesting when the writer literally slips out of focus, just like his fictional character.
And it's why, in my own stories, the solution to a problem is often provided by some source beyond the ingenuity and clever thinking of the hero.
They are the product of a clever bit of archaeological ingenuity, going back to the 1860s.
Yet despite all the luck, ingenuity, and clever, if somewhat crazy, ploys, by 1968 the CIA — which had run spy planes over the Negev facility and eavesdropped on Israeli communications — was fully aware that Israel had nuclear weapons, and told the president.
Only recently have animal behaviorists realized that science, in heeding Cartesian dogma more than the demonstrable ingenuity of animals such as Clever Hans, had got its logic backward: it had put Descartes before the horse.
But some of the most clever and practical conversions came from owners' sheer ingenuity, with a bit of carpentry and mechanical skill.
At that time she was merely impressed with Chinese ingenuity, finding the cookies an amusing and clever idea.
But the judges highlighted the Shettleston entry for "the ingenuity of the new extension, and the clever and careful way a historic building and a very contemporary new structure have been brought together".
He had been an uncommonly clever child, and came to believe that his wits and ingenuity could get him out of any scrape.
Clever viral marketing can pull in curious customers seduced by ingenuity alone.
