Sentence examples for not ingenious from inspiring English sources

"We are not ingenious puppets, sir, who live in a box and look out on the world only when it is gaping for amusement.

Several times its blundering opposition has focussed public attention on the birth-control movement which the movement was not ingenious enough to win for itself.

Patricia Hewitt, a former head of research at Accenture (then called Andersen Consulting) was health secretary in 2005-07; David Blunkett got a consultancy job when he resigned as work and pensions secretary in disgrace.Consultants are nothing if not ingenious in getting their feet on the fender.

The Giants complained that Campbell was held on the play, but it is not ingenious scheming to design a goal-line play with just one receiving option, especially if that option is Campbell, who is so rarely used as a receiver that he has three catches in nine games.

That doesn't mean that they didn't work hard, sacrifice a great deal, don't have astonishing practices, aren't great teachers, and aren't ingenious entrepreneurs that found interesting ways to share the tools of yoga and its wonderful heritage and messages.

It seems as though he should have brandished something rather costly, if not actually ingenious.

"The secret of this novel's spell lies not in ingenious twists but in its meticulous plausibility," she wrote.

"Not that ingenious a question, but one which may stump the other five people who appear to be following your commentary".

But even if it does not, this ingenious cut-price project will deserve an honoured place in the history of space.

It is generally acknowledged that the best directors are those who consistently contribute not only ingenious techniques but also an effective, coherent, personal style or theme to their films.

The title of Tate's first book, Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America, is a playful ode to Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose ability to foreground black people in a world which wants to erase them made his "work not just ingenious, but righteous and profound".