Sentence examples for my cleverness from inspiring English sources

I sometimes felt that I was undergoing, and failing, a test of my cleverness at guessing from hints, reading between lines and recognising allusions to an earlier novel.

"In short, I wouldn't put anything up that I wouldn't want everyone to see, and I want certain people to get much more out of it than others, and for those certains to be impressed by my cleverness tempered by restraint".

So I grinned and congratulated myself on my cleverness and in time forgot about it.

But Easter says those things come, not through my cleverness or diligence, but through a bloodied and scorned Messiah.

As for my mother, cleverness could never beat her.

"My own cleverness got the better of me," he said.

After reflecting that Harris's sick mind "co-ordinated his ejectment from the present into the past", she chastises herself: "It seems like a discovery, but I haven't discovered anything, once again, other than my own cleverness".

I prayed that God would help me not to be so in love with my own cleverness.

But even if it never catches on -- verbally or societally -- I'll still find it hilarious and I will be doing a beer to celebrate my own cleverness.

My early college experiences with the sweet leaf were fraught with poorly rolled joints, accidentally inhaled cherries, overly ambitious bong rips, and smoke sessions with a pipe emblazoned with the UNC Chapel Hill logo that I, in my infinite cleverness, called Tyler Hansbowl.

I don't normally like Roman numerals in my puzzle, but the XII at 37 Across gets a pass in my opinion for the cleverness of the clue "Face-topping figure".