Sentence examples for ingenious turns from inspiring English sources

In one of Mr. Sondheim's many ingenious turns in this intricate musical, for which he wrote music and lyrics, the judge later also sings "Johanna," to disturbing effect.

In one of the story's most ingenious turns, Mark heads to the ruins of the defunct Pathfinder probe and turns it into his means of communicating with NASA on Earth.

Her final duet with Mr. Marcovici, full of wonderfully ingenious turning lifts and eddies of attraction and rejection, was beautiful dancing and compelling psychological theater.

Actually, there is one perversely feel-good moment, an ingenious turning-of-the-tables in which Javier Bardem, as Father Lorenzo, a fanatical agent of the Inquisition who really has it coming to him, is himself briefly tortured until he confesses that he is a monkey.

Archer comes up with an ingenious turn that allows Danny to pull off an identity switch.

But there are some nice gags and some ingenious narrative turns in Curtis's well-carpentered screenplay.

Everywhere, the ingenious adjective turns up to alter its noun, where "adjective" stands for the imagination and "noun" for reality prior to aesthetic transformation.

But the most ingenious solution turns out to be the easiest: run two tabs, one for food and a second for alcohol, and divide each one by the appropriate number.

He begins as an ingenious comic turn, a child at sea among the powerful.

Sit back and savour an ingenious, page-turning thriller that confirms all your scorn for those conspiracy theorists who bang on about JFK, Diana, 9/11 and crop-circles.

In his parenthetical commentary, Lipsky emphasizes Wallace's mercurial sense of humor, and one particular joke that strikes him as ingenious is turned by Segel into a laugh-out-loud spit-take.