Sentence examples for clever turn from inspiring English sources

It's a clever turn of the screw: the posters for the star's new movie might as well be wanted posters.

And, in a clever turn, their relationship is the one scrap that's left when the season ends.

Gedge is an Old Master of painting girl troubles with big guitar strokes, and he hasn't forgotten what clever turn of phrase looks, or sounds, like.

And he offers a clever turn on a famous line from "West Side Story" (Bernstein/Sondheim), noting that, "When you're a Jew, you're a Jew all the way".

That clever turn is just one of a couple hundred neologisms coined by Liesl Schillinger in her new book, "Wordbirds: An Irreverent Lexicon for the 21st Century".

The story takes a clever turn or two, although the dialogue and much of the acting, especially among the townspeople, is wooden.

They use artfully wrought metaphors and clever turns of phrase.

There are clever turns in many of the stories but a certain tire shriek on corners.

Her descriptions are peppered with self-consciously clever turns of phrase and images.

But "Day Break" has enough suspense and clever turns to tempt viewers to stay and see how the next day breaks.

It's full of tricks and clever turns, but – and this is the real skill – not so often that you'd notice it.