This we now have in the form of Prometheus, an ingenious, well-worked-out exploration of the source and nature of the creature that caused havoc on the Nostromo, with a script by two young Americans, Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof.
At 100-yen shops you'll find ingenious, well-designed goods you probably didn't know you needed.
So radio astronomers must be ingenious as well as pragmatic.
TfL promised that the company would deliver something innovative and ingenious as well as nostalgic.
The plot was "very, very bold, ingenious and well thought out," according to Gary J. Hilton, assistant corrections commissioner, who said that six inmates had been identified as plotters and placed in segregated cells.
In effect, Ford is, as ever, unfolding the genius of the system, or, rather, the manifold touches of daily grace that collectively render the system ingenious — as well as the arrogance that threatens to turn the system monstrous.
If we keep pressing, are ingenious as well as persistent and work closely with China, India and Thailand, it seems we may be able to get more Western aid in under, so to speak, an Asian umbrella.
Pan Pan's version of Beckett's radio play, All That Fall, is ingenious and well worth seeing as part of the Barbican's international Beckett season which this week also includes outdoor promenade stagings of Rough For Theatre I and Act Without Words.
If we keep our elbow to the door, are ingenious as well as persistent, and work closely with China, India and Thailand, it seems we may be able to get more of the western, rich countries' aid in under - so to speak - an Asian umbrella.
Chopsticks are ingenious as well for this reason.
