At any rate, whether its riddles or innovations, it's important to cultivate cleverness - the ability to bend your mind to come up with a solution to a problem that isn't obvious.
These were littered in among his acute sense of humor, cleverness, spatial reasoning abilities and a talent for conning women, me included, into forgiving his frequent and sometimes head-spinning transgressions.
Ultimately, debt is a way that people bet on their own futures, placing a wager on their own ability, cleverness, diligence and luck.
That ambition and cleverness include an ability to trump, at least temporarily, some of the other talented, voraciously ambitious and clever writers of his generation -- David Foster Wallace for instance, whose novel "Infinite Jest" has even more pages and even more long sentences.
Sure, in its original incarnation, the show was known for its callbacks, running gags and dense storytelling, but what "Arrested Development" was mainly known for back in the day was its unobtrusive cleverness and its ability to deploy its wit, intelligence and savage satire with a light touch.
Sense of "ability, cleverness" first recorded early 13c.
The pregnant Duchess is a bland, "machine-made" Princess, "designed by committee" who lacks Anne Boleyn's cleverness and Diana's ability to transform herself into an avenging wraith, the double Booker Prize-winning writer claimed.
That one's from "All of You," by Cole Porter, a Midwestern WASP who went to Yale, yet who wrote lyrics that fit squarely into what Lehman understands as a tradition that "followed a Jewish imperative in their abundant humor, wit, and cleverness and in their ability to mix sadness and elation and to produce thereby the mysterious tingle of romance".
"It accents the cleverness and uniqueness of the ability of these indigenous folks to roll with the punches, if you will, over time," he said.
He concluded: "I place Peel first on my list of great left-handed bowlers on account of his wonderful judgement, his diabolical cleverness and his great natural ability".
