Sentence examples for intellectual cleverness from inspiring English sources
Some may read the project as a celebration of human diversity, but the sculptures have such a kitschy blandness that it is hard to see them as anything other than ready-mades in a Koonsian game designed to make us think more about the artist's intellectual cleverness than the humanity of his subjects (Johnson).
But the story, which, for all its intellectual energy, values cleverness above clarity, is a bleak one, in which the flesh is cursed, life is absurd, and the end is near.
This fantasy of a chorus girl and a young poet is clever, but chiefly clever in simulating cleverness, in tickling the intellectual vanity of its audience with a goose feather, coloured peacock by imagination.
On the commercial side, her photomontages called Suenos or Dreams, which accompanied a column on Freudian interpretation of dreams in a women's magazine are examples of surrealist imagery with a subversive feminist twist, and like Dora Maar, her intellectual reach and native cleverness made for some bold imagery which far exceeded the raw material.
The strength of this attachment may speak as much to her hunger for an intellectual companion as it does to Bahlmann's own cleverness; unfortunately, the governess's letters, from which her measure might be taken, do not survive.
All of this may have the smell of extreme cleverness but Morpurgo never falls into the trap of empty intellectual posturing masquerading as comedy; this is a show that, while being thought-provoking, never forgets where its next big laugh is coming from.
He explained why the partnership worked so well: "Jill Valentine represents the more intellectual protagonist the kind that survives on a sharp mind, a thrifty expenditure of resources, and sheer cleverness [that] contrasts perfectly Chris Redfield's machismo".
Aggression trumps cleverness.
He applauded cleverness, wit.
