Sentence examples similar to substantial cleverness from inspiring English sources

Those immersed in the business for any substantial time have learned the cleverness of what I like to call "sincere lip service". OK.

KONNIKOVA: Because they're clever and we admire cleverness.

Ho's stature rests on her mastery of classical technique, her mordant humor and on what John Balaban, in his excellent introduction to SPRING ESSENCE: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huoung (Copper Canyon, paper, $15), the first substantial anthology of Ho's poetry in a Western language, calls "her exquisite cleverness".

Cleverness abounds.

Cleverness reigns.

Aggression trumps cleverness.

He applauded cleverness, wit.

Is the cleverness appropriate?

And we love cleverness.

"So truth trumps cleverness?" "Absolutely".

But the cleverness was brief.