She not only devises ingenious fibs to deflect browbeating grown-ups around her but also relates intricate narratives that turn her dreary life into rich fantasy.
"In Humans, Sam and Jon have not only crafted an ingenious and imaginative thriller, but they're also asking big, thought-provoking questions about how we live," said Piers Wenger, head of drama at Channel 4. Filming of the drama series will begin in the summer with the show set to premiere next year.
Although the novel occasionally threatens to spin apart into a series of stand-up rants and kvetchings, it is held together not only by an ingenious plot and cleverly interwoven motifs but also by the author's distinctive, choleric and thoroughly unstoppable voice.
The project has been met with universal enthusiasm, not only as an ingenious way to tackle an environmental concern, but also as a showdown between two of history's greatest rivals.
And here I thought Shakespeare and Patterson weren't merely ingenious, but supernaturally prolific.
Not only is the folly ingenious and low-impact, it poetically turns a patch of dead urban space into a living venue.
Andrew Nahum, project director of "The Making of the Modern World," the exhibit on the history of technology in London, called the clock "an example of sublime technology," not only because of its ingenious mechanics but also because of its "moral reflection".
Hertz's ingenious experiments not only settled the theoretical misconceptions in favour of Maxwell's electromagnetic field theory but also opened the way for building transmitters, antennas, coaxial cables, and detectors for radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation.
Cingular deserves considerable credit not only for dreaming up an ingenious gadget, but also -- for a company that's never developed hardware before -- designing it so simply and so well.
Khair's novel is ingenious and mischievous, not only in its powerful subtext about racial profiling but also in its ironic echoes of Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie.
