Sentence examples for serious cleverness from inspiring English sources

In a sketch that combines a homage to the Python drag-acts with serious cleverness of its own, the double-act behind That Mitchell and Webb Look play prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and his Queen, receiving a gift of a Linden tree from the American ambassador.

That is, it's a cocky, swaggery show on the surface, loudly presumptuous of its cleverness and heart, but with a serious identity crisis underneath.

This small, blues-based musical is a cocky, swaggering show on the surface, loudly presumptuous of its cleverness and heart, but with a serious identity crisis underneath.

For all the archness and cleverness, however, such images betray a serious and incessantly inquiring mind that seeks out epiphanies almost anywhere, analysing feelings, objects and the behaviour of others to the point of paralysing uncertainty.

Nor does cleverness explain who is good at office politics.

Glibness, hyperbole, the writer's overfondness for what he may imagine is cleverness — these undermine what might have been a serious work describing an era.

With respect for the ridiculous, and getting away with what most serious restaurants would never consider trying, here are truck slogans and names whose cleverness and puns put them in a category of names that "should be banned" for being over-the-top and too good at their own game.

Speaking of 1000+ page books, Infinite Jest is filled with all the things that are brilliant to read when you're young: unembarrassed cleverness, a cheeky take on the future, hilarious experiments with form, and a serious sense of accomplishment when you're finished.

Rome's ruthlessness in dividing its enemies, in creating patron-client relationships that would guarantee its intervention in more civil wars, its cleverness in siding with rebels or dissidents in foreign states, and its relentlessness in pursuing to annihilation its most serious enemies showed remarkable continuity throughout the republic.

Cleverness abounds.

Cleverness reigns.