Sentence examples for formally clever from inspiring English sources

So many photographers who care about composition forget about our boredom, or maybe don't respect it; they give us formally clever pictures, and we yawn.

Chelsea Through Oct. 14 Conceptually funny and formally clever, the works of Stephanie Brooks also give pause for deeper philosophical reflections.

Not being formally in government is a clever strategy.

It's too superficially clever to work as art and too formally various to be persuasive as good design.

Soviet nonconformist artists made extremely clever, inventive use of the medium, crafting images that were formally experimental and socially aware.

Ms. Churchill is as formally audacious a dramatist as the British theater knows, and this 1980 caprice, at once fiercely clever and deeply pessimistic, makes its very structure part of the play's abiding point.

Clever, clever.

Clever man.

Too clever".

Clever, yes.

Clever, very clever.