For centuries the people of the Netherlands had been finding clever ways to think about, exploit and control space in their crowded, sea-threatened land.
Academics can explain most of it, and the only reason they cannot explain all of it is because they are not clever enough to think of the missing factors.However, it is also possible to take the opposite tack.
While I can't publish Alastair's photo of Phil Berryman, because he didn't include it as an attachment and I'm not clever enough to think of another way of doing it, I can assure you that he looks nothing like Mark Cavendish.
It's both clever and creepy to think about your work projects and meetings becoming fodder for ad targeting in the future.
How he enjoyed making me talk about what made me feel bad, how clever he seemed to think he was when he suggested my depression might have something to do with what I'd gone through.
The champenois have been very clever in training us to think of a bottle of champagne as an event, not a drink.
"Energy in buildings has historically not been sexy, I would argue they probably haven't had the best brains applying their expertise to this problem, and the great thing about a lot of the new products now is that some very clever people are starting to think about this all very seriously".
Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes is too long, too generic (surprising, given Ritchie's always inventive visual and story-telling style) and not nearly as clever as it seems to think.
And when you went to see the art, you might even wonder if the people who were using language you couldn't really understand were trying to hide something: and that what they were trying to hide was the fact that the work, which they wanted you to think was clever, and interesting, and worth thinking quite a lot about, often wasn't clever, or interesting, or worth thinking quite a lot about.
Anstis agrees, saying that the smooth pursuit system is "much cleverer than we used to think".
