Sentence examples for cleverness from from inspiring English sources

At "Weekend Update," he said he was "doing a specific experiment, where I was trying to strip all cleverness from the joke and try and make it as blunt as possible".

In the end, the Universe may demand a high level of cleverness from us if we are to have any hope of identifying what dark matter is, as opposed just to what it does.

Weitz, so deft in his telling of a single mother, her precocious son and Hugh Grant's self-absorbed playboy in "About a Boy," trades in the pointed cleverness from "Boy" that earned him an Oscar nomination for a sweet sincerity in "Cinderella".

Just as often, though, the Russians failed to execute, either from over-cleverness or from sloppiness.

Most of the growth in Lucent's earnings, he maintained, had come from accounting cleverness rather than from an improving business; at the time, the stock was trading at around $64. Lucent lovers scoffed.

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.

The duo directed the video themselves, an involvement that becomes clear at the end when you zoom out and see them in directors chairs overseeing the performance of their clones yet another example of the cleverness that emanates from these two sonic creatives.

Maybe we need songs that are written from urgent feelings rather than from mere cleverness.

The film's humor bursts from the cleverness of these visual and aural near-pastiches.

Ficarra and Requa have ambitions; their scenaristic cleverness pervades the movie from beginning to end, with their bright and clattery dialogue and their exotic plotting.

It suggests we're all going to be scrutinising this particular little scrunchface for signs of strength, cleverness and general royalness from the word go.