Sentence examples for moderately clever from inspiring English sources
(Moderately clever readers will have discerned how by this point).
The movie itself evolves in reverse, starting life as a moderately clever grab bag of high-concept noodling and half-witty badinage before descending into the primordial ooze of explosions and elaborate lower-intestinal gags.
The film's ridiculousness would not be so irksome if Mr. Shyamalan did not take his sleight of hand so seriously, if he did not insist on dressing this scary, silly, moderately clever fairy tale in a somber cloak of allegory.
Dinosaurs are running everywhere, but Ivan Reitman's spoof, A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times, "evolves in reverse, starting life as a moderately clever grab bag of high-concept noodling and half-witty badinage before sinking into the primordial ooze of explosions and lower-intestinal gags".
Its cheesy pop-culture self-consciousness -- most evident in the moderately clever premise of assembling an all-star team of 19th-century literary monsters -- has no room for real fright, or for the pathos and longing that lurk beneath the surface dread in the best horror movies.
I say all this to respond to Adam's point about the Philly fans who, in the waning moments of game one, serenaded the Canadiens not only with the Montreal fans' routine "Ole, ole, ole" victory chorus (moderately clever, by hockey-fan standards), but also, as Adam noted, with a chant of "USA!
Peter Rainer writing for The Christian Science Monitor gave the film a C+ and called it "a moderately enjoyable escapade that isn't quite clever enough for adults and not quite imaginative enough for children".
Through diversification, clever and expensive advertising, aggressive expansion and the offering of more moderately priced products, Bulgari is now the world's third-largest jewelry concern, behind Cartier and Tiffany.
