But in the search for new rhythmic patterns, it doesn't take long for the patina of chatter or noises to shift from slightly clever to irritating, as was the case in "Zombie Aporia," one of two United States premieres performed on Friday night.
Slightly clever, pants-wearing primates, exactly.
You are a slightly clever, pants-wearing primate.
Forbes: And that gets back to us being slightly clever monkeys.
Gary Arnold and Judith Martin of The Washington Post felt that the plot was too thin to support the length of the film, although Martin felt that compared to such science-fiction films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars and Alien, The Motion Pictures pretense was "slightly cleverer".
THG, which set off the Balco inquiry, is only a slightly more clever version of an old thing: an anabolic steroid -- the kind of blunt builder of muscle mass and strength prevalent in sports since the 1950's.
However that run of inexplicable good fortune ended abruptly today, when he and his sidekick Andy Gray – a man variously described as The Scottish Jim Davidson, The Bald Jim Davidson, The Overweight Jim Davidson, The Slightly Less Clever Jim Davidson and The Even More Baffled Jim Davidson – were suspended for tonight's live coverage of Bolton Wanderers v Chelsea.
Eleanor Standard, a Pound Ridge resident and co-author of the anthology "Bookworms: Great Writers and Readers Celebrate Reading" (Carroll and Graf, 1991), said she found the fantasy and whimsy to be very smart but expected the whole thing to be slightly more clever.
"The structure sounds like a slightly too-clever way to circumvent the intent" of the rule, he said.
But Coolie's favorite girl was Betty Mercer, bold and clever, slightly anarchic, and very handsome.
Marcelo wonders too whether reading well, rather than writing, might be considered a quasi-creative act.Pathological ditherers and nerdish spotters of allusions will love this clever, slightly precious book.
