Sentence examples for for being clever from inspiring English sources

These feel like trophies, awarded to us for being clever enough to have been born with eyes.

But sometimes they get teased a bit for being clever because they are at a grammar school.

"If you praise children for being clever they start shying away from hard challenges that might disprove the idea that they're clever.

When Blair became prime minister three years later, Miliband was named to head the Policy Unit, where he earned a reputation for being clever but not arrogant.

Boys (unless they are either posh or weird) don't get their picture in the paper for being clever - only for getting ASBOs (also a big story today).

There are few things more deadly to a reputation in English public life than to get a name for being clever and serious about it.

The merchant was tolerated for bringing wealth through trade, but also resented for being cleverer and often richer than traditional elites.Merchant power waxed and waned throughout most of the pre-modern period, always dependent on protection from the warrior caste.

"The main thing people look for are clever, attractive buttons that were made in limited quantities," says Warda, who also designs and manufactures buttons himself.

"The campaigns that last for a long, long time are not clever for the sake of being clever".

I'm not just making a Chinese box for the sake of being clever".

When Beatrix gives the two girls their nightly scoldings, as is her habit, she blames Alma for showing off too much knowledge, Prudence for not being clever enough.