Sentence examples for in cleverness from inspiring English sources

What these characters lack in cleverness, they make up for in cruelty.

Not everything needs to be puzzled out, and racking one's brains does not necessarily result in cleverness.

He also shows how Wallace's interest in Pynchonian wordplay, mimicry and metaphysics yielded to a more earnest desire to communicate and connect, how a delight in cleverness and irony gave way to a call for writers who might treat "plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction".

But "Earl," which was created by Greg Garcia, who co-created "Yes, Dear," an unpleasant traditional sitcom that has somehow chugged along for five years, is a depressing piece of work, as lacking in cleverness as last year's mystery hit, ABC's "Desperate Housewives".

All the Republicans had to do, argued Mr Kristol, was to nominate "a real leader: a workhorse not a show horse; a steady hand not a flip-flopper; a profile in courage not in cleverness; a competent man or woman with strength and confidence in defence of liberty at home and abroad".Mr Obama can now claim to be such a man.

The members of the class of '93, like Ms. Srinivasan and Ms. Barrum, have seen their fates spun wildly apart by the Internet -- not so much because of any particular differences in cleverness or ambition, but because some of them happened to be very well placed as the transformation began.

This fantasy of a chorus girl and a young poet is clever, but chiefly clever in simulating cleverness, in tickling the intellectual vanity of its audience with a goose feather, coloured peacock by imagination.

And like his characters he probably uses too many of them, making the same point a few times too many, or parading in-joke cleverness for its own sake.

It's true that "The Invention of Love," first seen in London in 1997, is one of those Stoppard comedies in which cleverness is next to godliness.

In traditional cartoons, the surprise is in the cleverness of the solution that makes sense of the absurd setup.

All of its sounds, in other words, were recycled; the musicality was in the cleverness of the cut and paste.