Sentence examples for seemed clever from inspiring English sources

This seemed clever at the time.

Mr Ross charmed the steel unions, but cannot win over the textile capitalists.His pitch to the textile-makers seemed clever.

"Some projects that seemed clever a few weeks ago now seem utterly inappropriate," Mr. Albrecht said.

Too many outfits seemed clever but an awkward fit with womanly curves, which (and this is Italy!) are not getting a fair share of this season's silhouettes.

Even Remain's Amber Rudd, the Countess Bathory of Energy and Climate, seemed clever by comparison to Boris, who managed to make the word "expert" a pejorative term.

The idea of distancing the paper from the party, which had seemed clever in 1946, meant that the paper could take its own line.

On the whole, they seemed cleverer, and both socially and sartorially more advanced; they had better shoes (one contemporary even had a pair of elastic-sided Chelsea boots) and they knew about girls.

And sprinting doesn't seem clever, either.

Few of the aristos in his diaries, frankly, seem clever at all.

But if anything, the problem is that Ed Miliband is too clever, unlike Kinnock, who didn't seem clever enough.

They have three main arguments, all of which seem clever at first blush.