Sentence examples for clever to avoid from inspiring English sources

Panoramas, for instance, are such a hackneyed photographic device that you have to do something clever to avoid stumbling into cliché.

He'll have to run awfully fast, and be diabolically clever, to avoid sharing their fate.

Lou Roper might have it right when he says: "I thought that Lewis made a clever play to avoid being selected".

And they stole food to keep themselves alive, employing clever techniques to avoid being caught and even starting a "University of Thievery" to teach stealing skills.

She is clever enough to avoid direct answers, but also able enough to give a considered exploration of all sides of the issues.

Many analysts welcomed the move as a sign of the bank's growing flexibility and a clever step to avoid having to choose between a candidate from Paris or Berlin.

Because the antennas would be hidden inside a new flagpole, the firefighters accepted the deal, figuring it was a clever way to avoid having to beg their rich neighbors endlessly for money.

Either the banks will have to lend money directly to them, or they will end up owning a ragbag of securities including some dreaded mortgage-linked bonds.What seemed a clever wheeze to avoid the scrutiny of the regulators and auditors now looks foolish, since no bank knows the exposure of any other.

This is one of Delia's clever tricks to avoid having to put the vegetables on the hob at that critical juncture when everything else – turkey, roast potatoes, sprouts – need to be either taken out of the oven, basted, parboiled or in some way interfered with.

The view, according to the report, was that they penalised people who had done "the right thing by working hard, saving and trying to better themselves and their families in the future", while at the same time the rich could pay "clever accountants" to avoid paying.

It includes clever features to avoid getting trapped in a local optimum.