Sentence examples for deceptively clever from inspiring English sources

"A Woman's Education" has a deceptively clever title.

More to the point, she is deceptively clever.

Beds are Burning is a simple but deceptively clever piece of writing.

2: The British group Hot Chip traffics in electronic pop that is inherently danceable and accessible, endearingly silly yet deceptively clever.

He's a big hitter with very fast hands, and a deceptively clever tactician, but he has a reputation for wavering in his commitment to training and winning.

The band's two singers, Ed Robertson and Mr. Page, tossed in jokes and giddy pop references between deceptively clever songs of heartbreak and anomie.

Sardonic, deceptively amiable, and clever as a bag of snakes, Cromwell helped cut through the knotty business of Henry's first divorce.

It is homey, satisfying and, despite the deceptively bland exterior, rather clever.

In a review for Allmusic, Mark Deming said that the single "was a far cry from anything the Bangles had recorded before"; while Matthew Greenwald, also from the website, said "It's a clever and deceptively simple pop narrative, an infectious pop confection.

The job of very clever people is to ask deceptively simple ones.

Shostakovich tucks some clever musical twists into his deceptively simple score of lilting waltzes and exuberant ensembles.