Sentence examples for ingenious without from inspiring English sources

The effect was ingenious without being magical enough.

As Dr. James said, "Humans are incredibly ingenious — without CAP, that would have meant maybe we would have started to be much more careful about our uses of water 40 years ago". And had California gotten more water then, it might have been profligate with it.

When I was a kid, I saw Little Shop of Horrors at the Orpheum down on St. Mark's and Second Avenue, and Sandra Bernhard's ingenious Without You I'm Nothing.

Instead, each "guide" offers a personal, first-hand account of what it's like to live in an anarchist squatter community where decisions are made in assemblies, where cannabis is openly traded, and where there's an ingenious "architecture without architects".

Once your choices are ticked off, the sales rep will politely inquire: "How much do you want to overclock it?" In English, that means, "How much extra voltage do you dare to run through your machine's microprocessor before turning it into a silicon frittata?" Overclocking wouldn't be possible without ingenious cooling systems.

What was obvious is that Martial's absence was felt acutely, as without their ingenious Frenchman the visitors lacked speed and creativity.

'Their status codes now govern social life.' A phenomenon in step with the hard-driving digital utopianism promised by the internet and its money-spinning 'new economy', not to mention the 'Third Way' politics of President Clinton and Tony Blair, the Bobos have seized upon an ingenious way to sell without selling out - or so they tell themselves.

Without its ingenious narrative framework and two entrancing performances — by Bob Martin as a lonely, musical-loving schlemiel with a hyperactive fantasy life and Sutton Foster as the showgirl heroine of his dreams — "The Drowsy Chaperone" would feel at best like a festive entree at a high-end suburban dinner theater.

We didn't rule the world for millennia without being pretty ingenious when it comes to preserving our territory.

Though unconventional, the work has an ingenious form: four movements, played without pause, each one interrupted with contrasting middle sections and surprising outbursts.

The Franchise Affair is an ingenious book, a crime novel without a corpse, a detective story in which the victim is justice itself and the main weapons are ignorance, prejudice and careless journalism.