Sentence examples for clever to him from inspiring English sources

The weekend response of the Foreign Office minister Kim Howells to a letter from British Muslim leaders that says the prime minister's policies share the blame for the threat and reality of violence may have sounded clever to him, but the letter is a reflection of the anger and frustration spreading in the community.

When he received the pilot script for "The Big Bang Theory," he said, the show — about a group of genius-level scientists with terrible social skills — seemed clever enough to him, but the role of Sheldon felt like a great fit.

His mother Carmel Cryan once told him he was too clever to be an actor, and you see what she meant.

A draft whips up and drowns him out when he thinks of something clever to say.

Ibrahimovic's clever ball back to him made the move a one-two and from close to the advancing Jones the forward chipped the keeper.

Myself, I find him a bit too stylish and a bit too consciously clever to be an absolutely convincing artist.

Think of something clever to say.

"When a clever, vicious line occurred to him now, he'd swallow it, or maybe say it in the car, where it couldn't come back to haunt him," Cramer wrote of Dole.

The Taliban request that the United States halt the bombings so that negotiations can take place to discuss a turnover of Osama bin Laden (front page, Oct. 16) is a clever ploy to allow him to escape from Afghanistan without fear of being a casualty of American firepower.

Plays, treatises, speeches — all were to him just clever phrases strung together, so many "words, words, words".

The first 30 minutes show Wright animating the Stahlbaum family party with as many conjuring trick and party games as he can – and it's clever of him to have made Clara a teenager rather than a small child.