Sentence examples for wickedly clever from inspiring English sources

Greenpeace won, thanks in part to a wickedly clever YouTube video that has attracted nearly 7m views.

Reich has taken this taboo and built an entire novel — wickedly clever and shocking, tasteless and tedious, infuriating and maybe even marginally constructive — on it.

He is a wickedly clever device, played with casual, slightly inebriated delight by Mr. Gerroll, employing the accent of a British aristocrat and the carelessly selfish air of a new-moneyed gazillionaire.

Minchin is an inspired choice as composer and lyricist, marrying his own brand of irreverence with that of Dahl's and throwing some wickedly clever rhymes into the bargain (see the dazzling pairing of "miracle" and "umbilical" in the opening number).

(Chinen) TYSHAWN SOREY (Thursday) Mr. Sorey can be a steamroller of a drummer, but a wickedly clever one, given to confounding expectations: his recent debut, "That/Not" (Firehouse 12), perversely withholds almost all percussive fire.

It was only with The Murdstone Trilogy (2014), his wickedly clever dig at fantasy novels and at the world of celebrity writers he both loved and was terrified by, that Mal was first published as an author for adults.

And in truth, like the art he created, Dennis could be wickedly demonic, widely clever, beautiful all at once.

"Nina Bawden was a gently fierce, clever, elegant, wickedly funny woman," she said.

The technique used by the author, in telling the story from multiple narratives, is both a clever and wickedly effective one; the novel wouldn't have been worth half of what it is had it been told from the perspective of only one of the two protagonists.

Slate reviewer Hanna Rosin questioned the relevance of some chapters but overall concluded that "Traister can be clever, caustic, wickedly funny, and as cynical as the next blogger, but it's always clear that in her heart she cares".

But it's slickly acted and wickedly funny, particularly in its clever running parody of a particular kind of tacky US news reporting.