"clever speech" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe a statement or series of statements that is clever or witty. For example, "He made a clever speech about the current state of the economy."
Then, gleefully, Meyers delivered this clever speech: I love television.
Intellectual consistency, clever speech writing, or political desperation?
A Guardian editor in attendance described it as a "clever" speech that shouted, "I'm the nice Murdoch".
The painting in Sean's office, which prompts Will to make an infuriatingly glib but clever speech about the therapist's character, is by Mr. Van Sant.
It was a clever speech, a reminder of two things that had gone understandably forgotten through President Obama's awful summer: he's capable of passionate feeling, and he can also be politically dextrous.
A Guardian editor in attendance described it as a "clever" speech that shouted, "I'm the nice Murdoch". She might praise Dennis Potter, but Shine has yet to produce a program of Potter's calibre.
"They've come up through the think tanks and written clever speeches for their bosses.
Lindsay Doran, a producer of "Sense and Sensibility," said, "If there is a resurgence of Jane Austen, it's because the public is tired of having bad taste". In a clever acceptance speech, Thompson read her thank-yous as if they had been penned by Austen herself.
Check out a few of the funniest and most clever commencement speeches given.
A speech, however clever, is increasingly unequal to the task.
Cameron's speech was clever: the argument that Labour had struck a "Faustian pact" with the City, allowing finance to let rip while milking it for tax revenues, has more than a grain of truth in it.
