Sentence examples for kind of cleverness from inspiring English sources

But this kind of cleverness would only work if the publishers of the O.E.D. weren't so plainly self-aware.

"I was thinking a lot about the tendency for appropriation and a kind of cleverness towards art history in the contemporary art practice," tells Prvački.

But the recent Supreme Court decision on Citizens United v. FEC is so assaultive and destructive towards our country and the welfare of our democracy that any kind of cleverness feels pointless.

It's clever, a kind of plummy cleverness; this is not any ordinary word, but something that had to have been invented, probably by someone very smart, someone like Stephen Fry, and if you say it too you might be considered a little bit smart as well.

Both movies, for better or worse, exhibit a kind of self-conscious cleverness.

Being a remarkably astute man in most directions, I think that, in this different from most people, he enjoyed having the stupid side of his character emphasized; it constituted a disguise for his cleverness, a kind of fancy dress. . . .

It is an exercise in cleverness, a kind of trick performance in which the disputer attempts to make a case for a claim that everyone knows does not fit its object.

The university knew that Ahmadinejad would dominate the event, ramble, evade questions, and engage in the kind of spurious point-making — equal parts cleverness and idiocy — that has become his trademark.

We've got lots of cleverness".

They clear only the lowest bar of cleverness, like puns.

If anyone died of cleverness it was Hugh Everett.