Sentence examples for clever passage from inspiring English sources

In one clever passage, Belling, a medical historian at Northwestern, compares the condition to a poster for Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" that shows a woman swimming on the surface of a seemingly bottomless ocean, while a shark rises up towards her from the deep.

But those clever passages should not be discounted: they shine as examples of what this lovingly made work could have been.

Just how sorry can be seen from this volume of diaries from that last decade, which contains a number of scintillatingly witty and clever passages, and yet remains one of the most depressing books I have read for a long time.

Last year in the Book Review, Geoffrey Wheatcroft said the volume "contains a number of scintillatingly witty and clever passages... yet remains one of the most depressing books I have read for a long time".

Mr. Hoffman's clever libretto, complete with passages of rhymed verse, came through vividly in the 846-seat Borden. 846-seat Borden

These can be viewed separately, or they are also collated together in clever, "3D" video-like passages (you can see examples on Mapillary's homepage).

One consequence is that Wright's readings of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, or Koran sometimes degenerate into clever attempts to explain each passage as a response to specific local circumstances.

And clever as it is, relegating a continuo passage to a single bassoon confuses singers trying to pick up implied harmonies and stay in key.

"Pendulum" ticks through the couple's life by using a clever grandfather clock dial to signify the passage of time.

Even more intensely passionate are the late Orchestral Symphonies for Twelve Obbligato Parts (1780), with their clever instrumentation and affective harmonies punctuated by unison passages.

Put another way, why – with the passage of centuries – don't we get cleverer at making sense of our classic texts?