Sentence examples for for cleverness from inspiring English sources

It might be too soon for cleverness.

Those creatures are coyotes, also known for cleverness.

But the raw emotional power of the story is often traded for cleverness in the telling.

But as his reputation for cleverness grew, so did his rap sheet.

There was some grudging respect for cleverness, but also a lot of malicious projection.

But they mistake mannerism for cleverness in THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DOOR (Minotaur, $25.99), a labored exercise in split-focus story­telling.

Andy Manoff, a lawyer who was creating a maroon bow tie on Wednesday, said he joined the club in 2009 for its cleverness, and for its social possibilities.

Last week in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani wrote that "the novel's gushing fans, however, seem to have mistaken perversity for daring, pretension for ambition, an odious stunt for contrarian cleverness," adding that the book was "willfully sensationalistic and deliberately repellent".

In the eyes of the Palestinian rabbis the Alexandrian Jews were particularly known for their cleverness in posing puzzles and for their sharp replies.

And Democrats were blamed for bad results, not praised for the cleverness of their tactics.

Loos became renowned for her cleverness at writing piquant intertitles, first for a series of Douglas Fairbanks's early films: her verbal wit a match for his physical gags.