Sentence examples for despite clever from inspiring English sources
Despite clever moments and Hornbyesque touches of melancholy, it's let down by sitcom cliches, and by being weirdly incurious about the inner life of its female lead.
Despite clever details, like the don's bedroom wallpapered with self-portraits, the staging felt both pretentious and cheap: a mélange of disparate costumes splattered against a flat blue backdrop and a curtain ostentatiously emblazoned with Mozart's signature.
"The Stone Angel," a film of tightly assembled bits and pieces that don't fit comfortably together despite clever dashes of magical realism connecting past and present, wants to be a Canadian equivalent of epic soap operas like "Giant" and "The Notebook" and, yes, even "Gone With the Wind".
Despite clever algorithms, the accuracy of these tools is limited when the ends map ambiguously (this point will be demonstrated in Section 3.2).
And, despite its clever name, it is of little use in holding papers up on office corkboards.
Despite some clever ideas about using small investment guarantees to unlock bigger flows of private capital, the gap remains large.One deal at Copenhagen does look likely.
But the bubble suddenly burst, and despite its clever manufacturing system Cisco was left heavily overcommitted as some of its customers slashed their spending.
Co-founder and CEO Rich Skrenta said during a review last year, the team pretty much agreed that the site sucked, despite some clever mechanical aggregation.
Despite its clever title, "The Shock of the Nude" concedes that it was not nudity but realism that outraged French society.
Despite a clever plan by Stanford that frustrated Griner and kept her from being her most dominant and intimidating, top-ranked Baylor still won Sunday's N.C.A.A. semifinal matchup, 59-47.
But Bach's Concerto for Three Violins (BWV 1064) sounded gimmicky despite a clever arrangement and spirited playing: the treble violin sometimes squeaked like a toy, while the bass and contrabass lacked warmth and heft.
