Sentence examples for sufficiently clever from inspiring English sources

Is "humanity" a trait exclusive to human beings, or can a sufficiently clever machine also learn to be kind?

Like certain other strains of science fiction, Yu's genre exercises occasionally succumb to the fallacy that a sufficiently clever premise has only to be executed — that the text itself is secondary.

Make petrol out of plants in a sufficiently clever way and you can drive around with no net emissions of carbon dioxide as well as no net payments to the mad, the bad and the greedy.

The satire is not altogether fresh, but the jokes are at once sufficiently clever and sufficiently silly to keep things moving, and to point up the ridiculousness of American racial politics.

Julia Carruthers, former head of dance programming at the Southbank Centre in London and now administrator of the Akram Khan Company, blames the press for failing to see women choreographers as sufficiently "clever, sexy and charismatic".

(Goldstein compares this to a play in which the characters are also actors in a play within the play; if the playwright is sufficiently clever, the lines the actors speak in the play within the play can be interpreted as having a "real life" meaning in the play proper).

Critics say they are a way of landing the industry's customers with the risk that something may go wrong: the criteria for a successful transformation are sufficiently nebulous for clever lawyers to claim that they have been met, whatever the outcome.The larger issue, however, is the way IT firms sell financial engineering along with their systems and software.

Once intelligence is sufficiently well understood for a clever machine to be built, that machine may prove able to design a better version of itself.

All of the actors give outstanding performances, especially Keaton, Norton, and Stone, and much of the dialogue is clever, but no one is sufficiently appealing or authentic to allow the audience to care much what happens to them.

The one-liners are clever enough and the physical comedy and pop-culture goofing sufficiently dumb and broad to make "Undercover Brother," which opens nationwide today, a reasonably pleasant experience.

It seems to me that these truths have not been sufficiently acknowledged, especially by movies, which tend to imagine terrorists as the diabolically clever authors of complicated conspiracies.