Sentence examples for with a cleverness from inspiring English sources

For two decades They Might Be Giants has been knocking out catchy, staccato pop songs about topics like science, statehood, twisted perceptions and thwarted love, with a cleverness that doesn't quite conceal the heart within the songs.

By the time graduation nears, pranks, senior portraits, and proms encompass most senior thoughts, unless you have earned the title of "Valedictorian" whereby you must begin crafting the speech of the century -- balancing profound meaning with a cleverness that ensures a few guffaws from the crowd.

"Blur plunder the past, too, but they do it with an irony and a cleverness which I don't like.

With Alex, I knew this was someone unconventional, a little bit different, with a brightness and a cleverness that would serve him well.

Paterson says that he finds a "beauty" and a "cleverness" with slipping unlicensed samples into compositions without anyone recognizing it.

For example: don't get into a cleverness competition with other people and start comparing your cleverness with their cleverness.

Beautifully controlled, effortlessly written, it managed to combine an Orwellian concision with an artful cleverness that marked it out from many of its peers.

To Latin Americans, the band is a popular rock act with some cleverness -- an Offspring or a Beck.

It portrays a young man, in his own words, "emotionally fractured" — a gay man in an institution not hospitable to gays, fragile, lonely, a little pleased with his own cleverness, a little vague about his motives.

There's nothing wrong with a bit of cleverness, but sometimes literal trumps latent.

There isn't a discordant note in the show, and whenever a lyric piqued my interest with a bit of cleverness or wit -- as in "If I Were Pretty," which Ms. Korey made poignant -- it turned out to be written by someone else (Muriel Robinson, in the case of "If I Were Pretty").