Sentence examples for upon a clever from inspiring English sources

"2Face" was built upon a clever idea.

For the past few seasons, he has hit upon a clever style: designing clothes that are in the shape of the designs he finds in Balenciaga's venerable archives, but then tweaking them in a decidedly more modern (or "conceptual", as they are usually described) style.

Becker's work depends upon a clever use of the theory of Loewner chains and the generalized Loewner differential equation.

WE THOUGHT DENVER-BASED startup Journal Graphics had hit upon a clever publishing niche: selling transcripts of news-related TV and radio programs.

Physician and history enthusiast Eric Altschuler of the New Jersey Medical School in Newark was walking through the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., when he hit upon a clever idea.

Then he hit upon a clever, improbable solution: What if he could convert all his doubts into artistry?

Once upon a time, a clever contestant entered Granta's one sentence story competition and won a signed book.

But Sony's London Studio has hit upon a very clever way of bridging that apparent chasm, in the form of Wonderbook.

Once upon a time, clever lawyers told a former US president that indefinite internment would be acceptable in a great modern democracy, if it applied only to foreign nationals and only off-shore.

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 366pp, Penguin, £20 Once upon a time there was a clever young financial professional called Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Two new styles, lined with rabbit fur or curly lamb shearling, are a clever travel shoe: cozy for the flight and vacation-ready upon landing.