Sentence examples for cleverness without from inspiring English sources

Wit can be effective but can too easily devolve into cleverness without some toughing edge of weirdness.

Alex Lawther, who plays Turing in flashbacks to his boarding school, has the delicate task of exuding a furrowed cleverness without being a pain in the neck, and fulfills it with distinction.

His gaze cannot even control my emotions Because what controls his spirit is cleverness without ambition That means at all costs to break the heart of the vulnerable with severe reprisals The detainees near me cried out the names of Jesus and Allah It was a perfect confusion between God and hope Finally I asked myself if it was actually depression or hallucination.

The ones I saw engaged their surroundings with cleverness and without the slightest hint of condescension.

This is a sharp script, and it delivers its cleverness mostly without nudging you in the ribs.

He depicts that battle with care and cleverness but without imagining that what goes through a person's mind is as real, as constitutive of the action, as what's visible from the outside.

Verbinski takes pains to meticulously recreate crusty details and directs the action sequences with a graphic academicism, a bland eye-catching cleverness that communicates action without embodying it — which is exactly the point.

Verbinski takes pains to meticulously recreate crusty details and directs the action sequences with a graphic academicism, a bland eye-catching cleverness that communicates action without embodying it which is exactly the point.

He praised the early scene where Amy was abandoned for the "zingy dialogue" but found himself "enjoying the cleverness of the explanation without really buying into it".

CHARLIE BARTLETT With teen comedies, as with teen-agers themselves, cleverness goes only so far without heart; if this film has one, it's artificial.

KONNIKOVA: Because they're clever and we admire cleverness.