Sentence examples for own cleverness from inspiring English sources

"My own cleverness got the better of me," he said.

Luciano, though, was known to exaggerate his own cleverness.

It's fast, ferocious and inevitably a bit too pleased with its own cleverness.

This Bierce never pauses to admire or enjoy his own cleverness.

"But perhaps it's just our own cleverness that weirds us out".

The players seemed delighted with their own cleverness, but this was pretty tame stuff.

Even when he was sweet-talking the wronged widows into falling for his machinations, he had to gloat to the audience – gasping incredulous not at his own clevernesses, but at their stupidity ("relenting fool, and shallow, changing woman") – because, by this stage in his galloping villainry, he just can't help himself.

He smiled as he said that, apparently enjoying his own shameless cleverness.

It is too intent on its own conceptual cleverness to deliver a knockout emotional punch.

It's the smug sense of entitlement — that of intoxicated dweebs tittering endlessly and obnoxiously at their own supposed cleverness.

He'd got himself to university and then onward into success and even fame — he'd been on television often — through his own sheer cleverness and effort.