A "damp rag" on a coat of arms would not look nearly so clever.
"I don't think I'm nearly as clever as her.
Though not nearly as clever as it aims to be, the film at least tries.
We are not nearly so clever at our sporting events in America.
It wasn't nearly as clever as the band thought it was back then, but now it at least has the benefit of kitsch.
While certainly brutal, the sadistic games being played in the prison aren't very subtle — and not nearly as clever as the sport Swierczynski dreamed up for Charlie's first thriller.
He had a beautiful voice, and he knew how to use it, and he had the rare, gratifying knack of making an interlocutor feel nearly as clever, as interesting, and as intellectually adventurous as he was himself.
While not nearly as clever as the pun-laden comedy on which Jay Ward built the Rocky and Bullwinkle shows, "Batfink" still appeals as a cracked parody of the 1960s.
What looked like one heck of a wheeze for the chancellor at the time of his autumn statement does not look nearly so clever now that the sell-off has garnered much less than expected.
It took me about 10 minutes to come up with a few mechanisms for these issues, and I'm not nearly as clever as highly-motivated union officials and superintendents.If people want to go into professions where most pay is based on commissions and bonuses, they'll go into the ones where the rewards can be large, like real estate sales or finance.
While not discounting that doomsayers may prove someday to be right, Retro Report offers more reassuring views from computer specialists who sense that the end is not nigh — if only, they say, because machines are not nearly as clever, or necessarily as pernicious, as the fretters believe.
