Sentence examples for overly clever from inspiring English sources
Perhaps overly clever metaphor does poison the plot... does undermine the reader's connection to character.
"There but for the" is quirky, intricately put together, sometimes overly clever but nevertheless airborne for some considerable stretches.
Both, especially the latter, were attention-grabbing displays, with overly clever harmonic excursions, pointless fusillades of notes and reflective moments that seemed arbitrary, not organic.
But in the last fifteen years, despite plenty of forward thinking on such matters as interactivity and Internet distribution, Rundgren became a musical relic, putting out records that were preachy, overly clever, or just plain incoherent.
On December 11 , 2010 at the Thunder Road Marathon, in Charlotte, his split times suggested to the race director that he had cut the course and not been overly clever about it; within forty-eight hours, he'd been provisionally disqualified.
The only significantly false note in "Breaking and Entering" is its overly clever title, which doesn't give you much of a clue that it's a film about people obsessed with getting their names in the Guinness Book of World Records.
The script, written by Diablo Cody, gives Theron plenty of mean, arrogant, and sometimes delusional things to say and do, which is a welcome evolution from the long, hyper-eloquent, pop culture-filled, overly-clever speeches delivered by Ellen Page from Cody's Oscar-winning screenplay for 2007's Juno.
He wins the next point with a solid serve, but then drops the next with an overly casual shot at the net, trying to be a bit too clever and pushing a forehand wide.
It seemed overly ingenious.
She is not meant to be overly aggressive or clever: she is meant to be one of us, on a good day, with a better haircut.
