Sentence examples for some cleverness from inspiring English sources

To Latin Americans, the band is a popular rock act with some cleverness -- an Offspring or a Beck.

Diane Shakespeare, an official with the Keep Britain Tidy campaign, told me, "We are concerned that Banksy's street art glorifies what is essentially vandalism," while Jonathan Jones, of the Guardian, recently wrote on his blog, "I think there's some wit in Banksy's work, some cleverness — and a massive bucket of hot steaming hype".

He's a shelter dog saved from a pound as a puppy and destined for euthanasia until some alert human spotted a spark in him — some cleverness, some drive — and set in motion a series of events that led to him becoming a search-and-rescue animal.

Asked about his assertion two years ago that Judge Leonie M. Brinkema was concealing evidence showing that an electric fan he found on the street had been bugged by federal agents, he demonstrated some cleverness by saying that even good lawyers might make excessive statements, and noted that Judge Brinkema had only an hour earlier admonished one of the prosecutors for doing so.

The Whig statesman Edward Everett described Gardner as "a man of some cleverness, but no solidity of character".

You may get some cleverness points for this one, but it's more likely that the girl will think you were too cowardly to ask for her number the normal way.

Because not every shopper has the time or, perhaps, the imagination to customize merchandise cleverly, the shop has some premade cleverness for sale.

Reardon will die, unfulfilled, in poverty; Milvain will flourish in literary London ("I write for the upper-middle-class of intellect, the people who like to feel that what they are reading has some special cleverness"), navigate a complicated love life, and eventually marry Reardon's widow, Amy.

Dallas Buyers Club is a clever movie but some of its cleverness is expended on insisting that Ron is not to be feared – which contrasts him pointedly with a transgender Aids patient (played by Jared Leto) in much the same way that flamboyantly gay characters are inserted into buddy movies to dispel any suspicions about the heroes' sexuality (Withnail and I springs to mind).

But this first episode was simply missing a spark and some of the cleverness of previous episodes.

Husbands and Sons combines theatrical cleverness (some sets and costumes implied by mime) with tender narratives of sex and death which, though it is always a treacherous business to guess what the dead would have wanted, Lawrence might well embrace as a good-faith variation in the way that Morpurgo and Haddon welcomed Elliott's reworkings of their texts.