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And she addressed the British people as a whole – which is clever, considering she wants to break up the union.
That includes Tim Hatley's bright but (deliberately) shabby sets and costumes and Stephen Mear's choreography, which is clever but doesn't make a point of saying that it is.
One thing Ollie Dabbous didn't want to do was let the hype affect his food, which is clever without being tricksy, and often quite restrained.
Even the math is fun: see Nate Silver's post today, which is clever and informative — the sort of thing that inspires one to, say, read up on Brian Sandoval, of Nevada.
What this has left us with is a kind of curating and a kind of art – the two are increasingly one and the same – which is "clever" rather than clever: work that ticks the right theoretical boxes but does nothing to engage the mere viewer, has no visual or emotional presence.
It comes in "no-waste" packaging that doubles as a carrying case and a credit card sign stand, which is clever.
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'It is up there with the great apes and dolphins,' he said, 'but I think it is very difficult to say which is cleverer.
Part of the joy of Stone's programme was his presentation, which was clever, without showing off.
Which was clever, because it distracted from the fact that in evoking the archetype of Joe the Plumber, McCain was himself declaring class warfare against Obama.
Of the "debate," Mike Espy, a former Mississippi Democratic congressman, says that it made "Stennis seem incoherent and senile, which was clever but doomed Barbour".
I was impressed by Kate Atkinson's time-bending "Life After Life," which was clever without being precious, and I was exhilarated by Rachel Kushner's vivid evocation of nineteen-seventies New York in "The Flamethrowers," which was full of sentences that made me want to set the book down and applaud.
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