Sentence examples for ingenious man from inspiring English sources

One ingenious man in Fleet, Hants (whose local football team, I cannot resist pointing out, has twice been thoroughly beaten this season by that noble venture, AFC Wimbledon), offered as well a whodat; a tabloidefact; a gontomorrow; and a teletrifle.

Frederick and Steven thought that he was an ingenious man, but they found him fascinatingly difficult to care for in his old age; their memoir is an attempt to understand their gambling obsession as a way of coping with guilt over his death.

While he respected Kempelen as "a very ingenious man", he asserted that the Turk was an elaborate hoax with a small child inside the machine, describing the machine as "a complicated piece of clockwork ... which is nothing more, than one, of many other ingenious devices, to misguide and delude the observers".

We Hong Kong journalists had our dedicated bus and official minders, and there were plenty of official Russian-built limousines for the VIPs, but most Chinese went around on foot, or on bicycles, or crammed into the back of trucks, or in trishaws - that ingenious man-powered combination of rickshaw and tricycle which has in the 21st Century spread even to the streets of Manhattan and London.

Wherefore, as ingenious men are to be honored who have expended useful labor on this subject, so they who have leisure and capacity ought not to neglect this kind of exercise.

Sherlock Holmes is an eccentric genius who is said to be 'One of the most ingenious men to ever walk this earth'.

"I know it was attributed somehow to some ingenious advance man from my staff.

The ingenious young man struggles into position and lies flat on the train floor to get close.

Pocol is one of many characters — an anonymous murderer in "Self-Defense," an ingenious Lebanese man in "The Hedgehog," a gentle wife-killer in "Fähner" — who stick with you long after you've closed the book.

We don't imagine this is seriously inconveniencing the policy people, infinitely ingenious young men, but it must be leaving its mark on the brokers.

With these properties, these ingenious young men would turn you any required number of pictures - scene, a water lane in Venice, dramatis personae a pair of gallants of same, a pair of ladies of ditto.