Sentence examples for ingenious act from inspiring English sources

The show "is an ingenious act of double-dealing, offered as a test of our social tolerance as it coaxes us toward condescension," Ginia Bellafante wrote in The Times in 2009.

He was due to spend the afternoon in another ingenious act of equilibration, teaching the singers of The Beggar's Opera how to act as grittily as characters in EastEnders or The Bill, while also conjuring up the ghostly theoretical presence of economists like Hobbes, Adam Smith and Milton Friedman.

David Stubbs One of the more ingenious acts of deception in the second world war, The Ghost Army were a unit with a very particular brief: to fool Nazi intelligence into believing huge pockets of US forces in France were in a different location than they actually were.

The chipper Teddy, who claims to have handled ingenious animal acts, realizes that this client has one thing that his whippets and his pigeons don't: intelligence.

With me it was increasingly brazen albeit ingenious criminal acts, including forging my own death certificate to get out of my first arrest, and adopting the identity of my brother, who died years before.

But this affecting and beautiful film really is a very accomplished piece of work from Moretti, superbly acted, refreshingly direct and blessed with an ingenious, unexpected final act.

In the second act, ingenious dot patterns applied to adjacent panels of board and gauze opened partial views through the walls of the Countess's chamber -- a handy effect in a drama so dependent on hiding and spying.

What if his bizarre, combative, polarizing behavior is part of an ingenious plot; an act of pure political, public sacrifice and selfless patriotism?

This is not just a question of tone or subject matter — "Jackass" and "Inside Job" contemplate ingenious and destructive acts of wanton stupidity, while Mr. Burns and Banksy are preoccupied with fame, money and deceit — but also a matter of formal rules and intellectual procedures.

And in an ingenious touch, the simple act of swinging open the large 3.5-inch L.C.D. viewfinder automatically switches the camera on and gets it ready to record.

They have acts of ingenious creativity attached to them.