Sentence examples for rather smart from inspiring English sources

But he added that, by these standards, "all biological systems must be rather smart".

"Sandwich is getting rather smart," the writer Jane Gardam said, setting a ramekin of potato chips on an iron table.

Luckily, we had booked into a rather smart lodge rather than pitching up at a dodgy motel.

Mark watches as we fumble, stumble and wobble on to two of his rather smart green Canadian canoes.

But by the end, it proved itself something better than that; it proved itself to be really rather smart.

But by being rather smart and human, and serenely non-judgmental, teachers Ballard and Hennessy have conjured wonders.

She grew up a rather smart-alecky kid in Oceanside, N.Y., a middle-class suburb on Long Island, encouraged by refugee parents -- her father is a retired picture framer, her mother an artist -- to question authority.

This does not necessarily mean more regulation, rather smarter and effective regulation.

"Rather than smart," he said, "things have to be comfortable".

Rather than smart, they are smarty-pants: smug, priggish and set up for a pratfall.

He was, rather, a smart and ambitious painter who was enthralled by the deliquescence of bankrupt 1970s New York.