That movie was regarded by some critics as a thrilling paradigm shift in horror: I thought it was pretty clever, though I would have preferred very clever, or better still, very scary.
A long history of imperialism has also made it a place that prefers dealmaking rather than hard-and-fast rules; witness the clever fudge this month between China and Japan to agree to disagree over their potentially ruinous island dispute.
The historian H. G. Adler likened him, in body and soul, to Falstaff, "clever, clear, superior, cynical, and artful," but Murmelstein prefers Sancho Panza, cleaving to common sense while others tilt at windmills.
Archie is clever and friendly and in a perpetual quandary over which girl he prefers.
I am utterly enchanted but the clever design and functionality of it all is perhaps lost on Ella, who prefers stomping Big Foot-like through the forest.
O'Brien prefers to think positively of the tight budgets that borrowing demands: "If you have limited resources, you have to be more clever, more skillful, more defiant".
Art critics do not talk much about craftsmanship these days, preferring to dwell on ideas or the clever statements an artist seeks to convey.
I used to want to write about movie directors and the creative process; these days I prefer hanging around gyms rhapsodizing about particularly clever kickboxing combinations.
Mitchell had been "obsessed" with comedy writing since his school days, as he "always felt that doing a joke was the cleverest thing", and "would intrinsically prefer a parody of something to the actual thing itself".
Clever people are mobile, and mostly prefer not to live in war zones.
