Sentence examples for displayed cleverness from inspiring English sources

My teachers seemed to be offended when I displayed cleverness and suggested I should get held back or get placed on Ritalin regimen for my "hyperactivity".

They offer something for fans of both Foster the People and New Order and display the cleverness and craftsmanship of Phoenix.

Elsewhere on the record, Miller displays both cleverness and sentimentality; "This Is What I Do" fuses the two perfectly, and the harmonies are as summery as they should be.

A close and exciting game, which featured "both goal-keepers displaying wonderful cleverness and resource", was won by Forest with a late goal.

Edward Foss wrote of him that "no judge ever sat on the bench who displayed greater learning, cleverness and discrimination; nor whose judgments have ever been so undisputed.

There's no denying Self's novel's cleverness, best displayed in its neatly postmodern ending; but the satire and wit are all too easily buried beneath the heaps of ketamine and methylene-dioxyamphetamine and worse.

Vince was uncomfortable at first, alone with these two men who are a few years older than him and whose displays of cleverness he finds both irritating and intimidating.

But in one of the few pieces of political cleverness this government has displayed, the proposal has been put forward in such a way that both Labor and the Greens have announced they will oppose it, as of course will Clive Palmer, the dominant player in the new Senate.

"The Uses of Enchantment" is also a frustratingly open-ended book that winds up displaying much more convoluted cleverness than wisdom.

They told Salinger that the precocity of the four Caulfield children was not believable, and that the writing was showoffy — that it seemed designed to display the author's cleverness rather than to present the story.

They told Salinger that the precocity of the four Caulfield children was not believable, and that the writing was showoffy that it seemed designed to display the author's cleverness rather than to present the story.