Sentence examples for over clever from inspiring English sources
"over clever" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it when referring to someone who is so smart that they appear to be showing off or displaying too much cleverness. For example, "He was being a bit over clever when answering the questions during the job interview."
Either way, this costumed blunder (the directing debut of Jerusha Hess, working from the 2007 novel by Shannon Hale), opts for crass over clever and slapstick over satire.
Instead of agonising over clever political slogans, the real hard work of opposition should be getting out of Westminster and getting in touch with the country that they want to have the privilege of leading.
The new battleground of truck sales is not only about torque or towing capacity, it is also over clever systems for storing things and "cargo management," as truck sellers call it.
(Scott) 'Austenland' (PG-13, 1 30) Opting for crass over clever and slapstick over satire, this juvenile comedy from Jerusha Hess follows a mousy Jane Austen obsessive (Keri Russell) to an English theme park without once pausing to wonder why a 21st-century woman would yearn for the unyielding strictures of 19th-century love.
(Manohla Dargis) 'Austenland' (PG-13, 1 30) Opting for crass over clever and slapstick over satire, this juvenile comedy from Jerusha Hess follows a mousy Jane Austen obsessive (Keri Russell) to an English theme park without once pausing to wonder why a 21st-century woman would yearn for the unyielding strictures of 19th-century love.
The libretto, which Schwartz also wrote, often sounds like someone's over-clever translation of a foreign-language text.
In the mid-70s he came into contact with Neil Simon's work, successfully di recting The Sunshine Boys (1975), before making the over-clever spoof about Sherlock Holmes, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976).
The songs echo old folk, blues, bluegrass, lounge jazz and country favourites, and there are historic performances from such veterans as Pete and Mike Seeger, and Terry Evans and Bobby King, whose vocal work on the stomping story of racism, Sundown Town, is one of the high points of an over-clever but often intriguing set.
Such a rift cannot be papered over by clever drafting.
A few works even cross over into clever product design: a set of "Belly-Cushions" made by casting a woman's midsection in polyurethane, a group of long-stemmed lamps capped by female lips and breasts.
It can be hard to begin your climb up the greasy pole without making some effort: the trick is to be brimming over with clever ideas for other people to execute.
