Sentence examples for intellectual clever from inspiring English sources

We don't go in for pontificating to the nation, but if you ask whether we have a vibrant form of political, social and cultural debate in which people who are academic, intellectual, clever – and not just media stars – engage, we have loads of it.

Intellectual consistency, clever speech writing, or political desperation?

I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.

In recent years, the mood was light, and Fringe plays tended to be zany and intellectual, with clever musicals, remixed fairy tales and wacky interpretations of Shakespeare dominating the lineups.

But the intellectual apparatus and clever chamber programming went a long way in compensation.

You can admire very clever intellectual fireworks but in the end you also need the odd belly laugh and Dyer gives you that.

I had never known quite such an intellectual; even my clever cousin Mossie, who collected gold medals in medical school, seemed less intelligent.

With his clever, intellectual, inquiring, methodical mind allied to one of the least self-aggrandising personalities in the Labour ranks in the Commons, despite clear ability and ambition, Meacher was never quite in alignment with the political moment during his 45 years in the Commons.

Many of them are so poised and well-mannered, so refined and intellectual, that you feel clever, rather than guilty, when you play them.

"Her comedy wasn't intellectual but it was clever, and intuitive.

As a girl, Margaret Roberts was clever but not intellectual.