Sentence examples for the smartest option from inspiring English sources

"That was the smartest option," he said.

"I don't want to have to tell it in front of everybody," she says, and her fellow-citizens agree that doing nothing is the smartest option.

The best thing about "The Limits of Control" is its portrait of Spanish townscapes, their crystalline modernism intercut with scruffy melancholia; and the smartest option would be to match the director cool for cool and walk out of his lovely, exasperating story with twenty minutes to go, leaving yourself — like Giulio Andreotti and his cut-off mysteries — with only a dream of an end.

Fighting back isn't always the smartest option; if a parent wants to control, dominate and hurt a child, having the victim screaming back at them will often only make the parent angrier.

Even the smart option, Chalet Auriane, is half the price it would be in Verbier.

The smart option, Van Basten ultimately decided, was to rest almost everyone.

In the circumstances, choosing to write for children rather than their parents would seem to be the smarter option.

But really the point is that even in the coldest weather, overheated shops, offices and public transport make layered dressing the smart option.

Writing in the Guardian on Tuesday, the conservative columnist Matthew d'Ancona noted that calling a snap election was "self-evidently the smart option".

"Evidence shows that investing in women's rights organisations is the smart option: these organisations are providing innovative, locally relevant and, at times, at scale interventions to end violence against women and girls," she said.

The Dutchman – still strapping across the chest despite being 44 these days – opted for the smarter option on the touchline with black shoes, a suit and tie, albeit with no jacket and rolled up shirt sleeves, but saw his team outplayed for large portions of the 2-0 defeat.