Sentence examples for clever power from inspiring English sources

The earlier version had a clever power switch — you rotated the top of the unit to turn it on and off.

Multi-platform power adapters (and a clever power brick).

Set clever Power Options (see Tips section): Go to Start in the task bar (bottom left).

You Must Build a Boat does a great job of twisting the genre into a new shape, working in match-three puzzle elements as well as clever power-ups and personalisation.

He also used some clever powers of persuasion to get on the company's board: He ousted Scott Thompson, Yahoo's new chief (remember him?) for lying on his résumé by saying he had a computer science degree when, in truth, he had an accounting degree.

This device, although clever, subverts the power of the original, especially without any clarification.

His approach is clever, comparing the power of debt as a predictor of both past and future growth, but to my taste he skips too many steps in his explanation.

The collapse of the treaty to limit strategic arms was both the most clever and forceful power play by Mr. Rumsfeld in his tenure as secretary of defense in the final 14 months of the Ford administration.

Our mission in Afghanistan has long since bloated beyond any especially clever use of power to disrupt and destroy Al Qaeda.

Yet lightly thrown over these huge issues were plots of a disarming playfulness, creativity and joy: realistically daft adults making buffoons of themselves, androgynous girls, tough but unimaginative women, happy dogs, tortured gay priests, angry clever bullies and power-holders, hypocritical husbands, melancholy wives.

Mention of the music press-boosted New Pop movement of which Rip It Up was supposed to be a perfect exemplar – clever, radio-friendly, powered by the modern-sounding squelch of the Roland 303 synthesiser – sets him off: "Bland … insipid … vacuous … disgusting".