Sentence examples for cleverness at the 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.

Unlike the Bond films, the Bourne movies are grounded in an elevated reality and don't wink their cleverness at the audience, making recasting feel unnatural.

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

They should beware the example of the German physicists like Heisenberg who triumphantly proclaimed their cleverness at getting money out of the Nazis, whereas in fact Himmler and Goering were perfectly happy to fund tame academics.

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.

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.

With that, he offers a guarded prognosis that depends on both our cleverness at finding new cures and our commitment to restoring ecologic wholeness.

Learn to use your environment, weapons, and cleverness at hand.

She prefers an "open and fluent and very broad-based" literary discussion to one in which the gimmicky critic with his "secondary cleverness" shows off at the expense of the text.