Sentence examples for like clever from inspiring English sources

The English do not like clever people.

If you like clever historical fiction, you will love these.

I love pop music, I don't like clever music: Bohemian Rhapsody is the worst song in Christendom because it's so pretentious.

'We don't set out to be, like, clever at all,' says the softly spoken Spike Jonze over the phone from Washington.

People see me as an equation – because I am academic, I should not choose dance and drama at GCSE. "But you're, like, clever – why dance?" was one friend's response.

That doesn't sound like clever politics to me.

I've always liked clever, funny adventure stories like the Percy Jackson series.

All I know is that I liked the clever tee-up for series three.

Of course many people also think of hats when they think of Ascot, and we liked this clever double meaning.

Put like this, it sounds like a clever mixture of piety and calculation.

People remember these things -- and they don't like hypocrites, however clever.