Sentence examples for once clever from inspiring English sources

Through Feb. 9 "Something Like This," Clara Williams's solo debut, is at once clever and sincere.

He is able to be at once clever and very stupid".

Her idiosyncratic voice — at once clever and moving — was at first an oddity and, eventually, a fixture of the magazine.

Outside the Republican walled kingdom of denial and delusion, everyone else could see that the once clever and ruthless party was behaving in an obtuse and outmoded way that spelled doom.

The contrivance was at once clever and pat, and its aftermath confirmed once again Dexter's status as a righteous figure, striving to do the virtuous thing, if only for his son's sake.

At once clever and awkward, the show's title evokes the biblical loftiness of Divine Origin and an altogether cooler scrutiny of the scientific, ethical and legal issues pulsing from the very nucleus of our genetic being.

There is even Class 2000, an escort service that urges Yellow Pages readers, "Let us take you to the next millennium!" These New York businesses, and hundreds of others have hit on the once-clever gimmick of tacking millennial cachet to an otherwise ordinary name.

With advice like that, you begin to understand why Philip seems at once so clever and so dense.

As that team suggests, it's at once a clever, nuanced play and a great fun night out for all the family.

The satire is not altogether fresh, but the jokes are at once sufficiently clever and sufficiently silly to keep things moving, and to point up the ridiculousness of American racial politics.

Ms. Churchill is as formally audacious a dramatist as the British theater knows, and this 1980 caprice, at once fiercely clever and deeply pessimistic, makes its very structure part of the play's abiding point.