Sentence examples for terribly clever from inspiring English sources
Young lady speaking: "He was so terribly clever about it.
A fellow pupil recalled: "He was terribly clever – I knew he would go a long way".
What was I thinking of?" Or (laughing) "That's terribly clever, isn't it?
Trying to block rise would not be "terribly clever or brave", he said.
"What did I say?" He was proud in advance of this terribly clever thing he'd said as a kid.
I don't do terribly clever things in my spare time, although I enjoy the odd pub quiz.
Godard uses the framework as a pretext for Karina's humiliation and an allegory of his anguish; it's a terribly hostile, viciously clever farewell of self-pity and anger.
Former colleagues recall an enormously clever, not terribly political young woman; when she left for the Bank of England - not the natural habitat of a classic activist - few predicted a political future.
"Bernard Levin wrote the most vitriolic attack on the play," he recalls, "saying we were two boys who must have thought everything was terribly funny, hugging ourselves with laughter for being so clever.
It isn't terribly dramatic or even melodramatic, but it is staged with clever economy, and it has a worthy subject and a heart of gold.
Olivier – at first "terribly nervous" of Clive Bell and Duncan Grant and "terrified by these clever people" – formed a deep maternal alliance with Vanessa Bell.
