Sentence examples for clever novelty from inspiring English sources

Here Stravinsky shows how to write a really clever novelty piece.

Two years ago, when the two men of LMFAO — one a son of Motown's founder, Berry Gordy, the other a grandson — emerged, they appeared to be a clever novelty: electro-hip-hop revivalists with an absurdist streak.

A Tragedy of Fashion was greeted as a clever novelty – an "engaging little ballet" wrote the Observer – and it was Rambert's instinct for the new that marked out her next decade, as the modestly named Ballet Club expanded into the more assertive Ballet Rambert.

For example, I thought I would discard the motion bow aiming as a clever novelty, but it's become a lifesaver.

At the time, it seemed like a clever novelty: a bike completely decked out in Metrocards (for non-New Yorkers, a Metrocard is a NYC subway pass).

Cleaning up Detroit, one discarded bookshelf and a two-by-four at a time, they use the materials to create beer holders that come with openers attached, as well as other clever novelty products.

So it's a delight when clever culinary novelty hits town.

The Angel of the North is the best known example of this clever mixture of novelty and nostalgia.

Cleverer still, these novelty pizzas are difficult to cook at home.

It's clever, but for me, the novelty wears off quickly.

Sold on a clever viral marketing campaign, Cloverfield is strictly a novelty movie but it follows in a long and (sometimes) honourable tradition.