Sentence examples for cleverness as much from inspiring English sources

Mr. Swaggart had incredible timing as well as rhetorical cleverness: as much as he lambasted show business, he knew that a Patsy Cline reference could capture an audience's attention.

The new design retains some of the magnification aspects, but gets winnowed down visually so it doesn't punch you in the eyeballs with its cleverness as much any more.

And what she wants, I think, is not to be hailed or derided as "clever" (is she intimating as much when her narrator at one point disparages the cleverness of "know it all" trees?).

Probably one of the reasons for this is that Obama seems not to attach much value to cleverness as such.

DNA," just as much as their cleverness, is the rancor behind the jokes: the smoldering annoyance that a generation later, corporate brainwashing and de-evolution only seem to be accelerating.

The filmmakers — both within the film and in the making of it — display as much craft and cleverness, narrative coördination and a cultivated nose for imminent drama, as they do a daring flair for technique.

A negative politics that claims that researchers in the humanities produce cold facts out of a hat with as much cunning and cleverness as any white-cloaked scientist, or that we write as "disembodied observers" of objective truths, leaves us with no room for anything save the paradox of purchasing our intellectual freedom through self-immolation.

Production quality, for example, isn't valued as much by the Web community as creativity and cleverness.

Ramis brought cleverness to silly comedy, form to anarchy, and enjoyed the latter just as much as the former.

It's interested me to discover as well that women in these stories are not passive zombies; they do as much rescuing as the princes do, though they use magic, perseverance and cleverness rather than cold steel to do it.

The humor has as much to do with the form as the content, and much care and cleverness have been devoted to making these pieces look right, from film stock and lighting, to period graphics, to furniture and clothing; the art direction is exceptional, and as such, delightful throughout.