Sentence examples for sheer cleverness from inspiring English sources

Yet somehow the sheer cleverness doesn't dominate the music.

Those puzzles are invariably so good that they will make you chuckle and nod in appreciation of their sheer 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.

Even in law school, perhaps the place more than any other where sheer cleverness is prized and love of argument for its own sake is fundamental to the culture, he was not much interested in academic jousting.

In 1909 the magazine Architecture seemed amused at the impudence of the architects' work; "as outré and unsuited to its surroundings" as it was, "its sheer cleverness cannot be denied".

The audacity and sheer cleverness of the best vocalese performances generate a special kind of euphoria and this is where Wardell succeeds brilliantly in her treatment of pieces by, among others, Horace Silver, McCoy Tyner and Lee Morgan.

Russia's taxes are a flat 24% of profits.For sheer political cleverness, Mr Kerry's plan deserves full marks.

A Liverpool journalist of the time recalls, "She got up there by sheer hard work and cleverness".

He specialises in high-tech wizardry of the Cirque du Soleil variety, the kind that makes your jaw drop in sheer admiration of its cleverness.

But Buick uses it as a cost-effective enabler, replacing sheer electric power with cleverness, allowing a tweak here and a tweak there, all adding up to the gain in fuel economy.

The inventiveness, the scintillating cleverness, the sheer cinematic verve of Soderbergh's best inspirations are tempered by the manners of the public forum behavioral manners that keep his characters from extremes of experience, and cinematic manners to match.