Sentence examples for intelligent not to from inspiring English sources

Talese is too intelligent not to raise questions about his own complicity.

He was too inhibited to make a forceful director, but too intelligent not to pick up a great deal of practical stage wisdom from his experience.

You are much too intelligent not to be Jewish.' " Of course, it's possible that Stein uttered this cliché, but somehow one doubts it.

But Gove's main point – and he's far too intelligent not to know that it's just naked trouble-making – is that the lefties who question Britain's conduct display "an unhappy compulsion… to denigrate virtues such as patriotism, honour and courage".

But she is too intelligent not to realize that babies don't represent life, they are life, though not necessarily the kind Esther wants to live; that is, if she wants to live at all.

I thought about writing a play about that generation, Larkin and Amis and Osborne, and how they all became more and more right-wing as they grew older, and how they were all too intelligent not to have an ironic sense of how the views they ended up with were exactly the views that they had mocked at the beginning".

Beyond a certain requisite baseline — Kitty is intelligent enough not to embarrass Levin — neither her intelligence nor her conversation is something Levin spends much time worrying about.

With the six novels he wrote in the years leading up to the second world war - five of which have just been reissued by Penguin Modern Classics - Eric Ambler revitalised the British thriller, rescuing the genre from the jingoistic clutches of third-rate imitators of John Buchan, and recasting it in a more realist, nuanced and leftishly intelligent - not to mention exciting - mould.

"But, at least, we were intelligent enough not to lose".

A BBC spokeswoman said she thought Top Gear viewers were "intelligent enough not to have been taken in".

Brilliantly, the BBC issued a statement saying it assumed viewers were "intelligent enough not to have been taken in".