Sentence examples for visual cleverness from inspiring English sources
I think it's a misinterpretation of classic auteur cinema to imagine that Hollywood directors of the studio era, feeling hamstrung by genre and script, kept themselves happy with visual cleverness.
But what got my attention were the images under those titles, a sort of ultra-slow-motion suspended animation of objects flying around in a closed space, and it had a mysterious, repressedly comical expressionistic tension that promised a visual cleverness that the movie then delivered.
The film is superficial in the purest sense: it looks wonderful, but so much visual cleverness overpowers the imagination, blocking it from doing any deeper work.
We were looking for something that had cleverness, visual economy and force".
Despite the range of references plundered by Goebbels, the staging never achieved a sense of emotional or expressive depth, only a playful but self-conscious revelling in its own literary cleverness and visual sophistication.
The film's humor bursts from the cleverness of these visual and aural near-pastiches.
But as the onion-skin layers of references peel away ad absurdum, the cleverness of his cerebral enterprise threatens to outstrip its visual pleasures.
Stripped of pretension, irony, and cleverness, the best outsider artworks use a wholly individualized visual language brewed in the imagination to probe universal, unspeakable states that hit the viewer hard. .
Aggression trumps cleverness.
