Sentence examples for clever notions from inspiring English sources

Luigi Pirandello's plays - legendary antidotes to naturalism - are strange amalgams: clever notions streaked with leaden exposition and whimsical flourishes.

For all its clever notions, "Book of Shadows" often seems more like a montage of pasted-together images than a coherent horror story.

Mr. Smith was obviously influenced by the Helmut Lang esthetic, but inspiration is not the same as copying, and he managed to avoid that trap by coming up with some clever notions of his own.

It's a clever notion, but try separating them.

It's a clever notion, imagining the Microsoft magnate's home as an enchanted castle.

It's a clever notion, but the story goes in the miss pile.

This week I saw Lindsay Posner's terrific production of Rigoletto at Opera Holland Park, and he hit on an equally clever notion.

It was Mr. Karsten's clever notion to condition the bale with a little fertilizer and water, creating a kind of instant compost pile.

This is a clever notion that falters in the writing, but Stephen Hollis's staging and the acting have a cartoon sprightliness.

In 1819, the music publisher Anton Diabelli had the clever notion of inviting 50 composers to produce variations on the same simple waltz.

Mystics, rebels, feminists, exhibitionists: all have used hunger as a way to make a point.In an age of obesity, this is a clever notion and Ms Apt Russell scoops every morsel of interest from her subject.