Sentence examples for cleverness at from inspiring English sources

Williams displayed cleverness at the line that fooled the Broncos.

A similar premium on cleverness at the expense of narrative logic mars many of the other stories.

Mr. Wohl's ingenuity was evident, but only the last movement, "I Drone," seemed to run deeper than the cleverness at its surface.

Loos became renowned for her cleverness at writing piquant intertitles, first for a series of Douglas Fairbanks's early films: her verbal wit a match for his physical gags.

I sometimes felt that I was undergoing, and failing, a test of my cleverness at guessing from hints, reading between lines and recognising allusions to an earlier novel.

They're thrown together raw and then overcooked beyond recognition; what comes off above all is Knight's own vain sense of cleverness at daring to throw them together in the first place.

A gallerist friend carried the sculpture Dead Star by Canadian artist Michel de Broin through airport security on her way to the Athens art fair a few years ago – officials were wary of the work's bomb-like appearance, but were then impressed at its colourful cleverness, as it was made entirely of used batteries.

Intelligence in the sense of cleverness is at least as likely to separate people as to bring them together – and being clever certainly doesn't correlate with being virtuous, happy and empowered.

Even when he was sweet-talking the wronged widows into falling for his machinations, he had to gloat to the audience – gasping incredulous not at his own clevernesses, but at their stupidity ("relenting fool, and shallow, changing woman") – because, by this stage in his galloping villainry, he just can't help himself.

At other times, the boom-tish joking and constant clever-cleverness annoy.

That cleverness was spotted at school; she won a place at the City of London School for Girls, which was quite something for a working-class kid from Homerton, at the end of the war, especially one who had a miserable life at home.