Sentences with phrase «as clever people»

We saw ourselves as clever people in a stupid world, upright people in a corrupt world, compassionate people in a brutal world, libertarian people in an authoritarian world.

Not exact matches

We imagined that as long as we gave people the best product and the best deal, and were the cleverest about getting our message to them, the marketplace would be its own conscience.

It can be hard to come up with a clever gift — especially when you remembered at the last minute — but you don't want to be the 10th person to show up with flowers and a covered dish (though neither would go amiss as an addition to your gift).

Apple's comment: «Jonathan Goldstein's clever look at people's hidden burdens (their «heavyweight») is as captivating as it is moving.»

If you already have a large following, it's okay to use a more clever title, but in most cases it's best to use a keyword phrase that people would actually search for as part of your title.

While people with limited understanding might think this is clever, it's as riddled with holes and misconceptions as anything the religious ever came up with.

Look at the people who proclaim their rejection of God in their tweets and on this blog, proudly strutting around like they are so clever and rebellious, as if opposition to God is something worthy to achieve.

Larry, as do so many others like him, like to think they are very clever by making ignorant statements, such as the remark about people from Kentucky.

This formal and clever poet must find some such sense of the comic necessary, as he changes places each morning with that formal and intelligent commissioner of Social Security — since, as you've probably already guessed, they are one and the same person.

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

Mu`awiya acted slowly because he was clever and had designs for setting up an Islamic empire; therefore his help did not arrive until after Uthman had been killed and Ali confirmed as Caliph by all the people of Islam except those of Syria, who were ruled by Mu`awiya.

It's not nearly as quick or easy as creating a clever sign and yelling at people on a corner.

The outrage among Obama's erstwhile Jewish supporters, as reflected daily in Marty Peretz» blog The Spine, on the website of The New Republic, is heightened by the sense of wounded self - esteem felt by clever people who have just been swindled.

A refrigerator, to me, isn't as clever an appliance as people would have you believe.

What, differentiated Muhhamad Ali from other top heavy weights was his speed of thought, a very clever individual who understood tactics, people, as well as a great deal more.

The internet is overflowing with Halloween adorableness right now and as someone who loves holidays but is short on bandwidth for from - scratch projects, I'm immensely grateful to the awesome and clever people who make it easy for busy parents to make the house festive in a matter of minutes.

«I've heard people describe it as clever opposition politics — and I suppose it is.

Watching the shadow Home Secretary on TV this morning causes me to write, Im sure he is is a clever and wonderful person, but he comes across on TV as another public school tory twit, as does Maude and Spellman.

As for his co-workers, Warne says he's surrounded by clever, articulate people.

I recall quite clearly people around me commenting as I read blogs on the computers at WAAPA, «I hate people who post dozens of pictures of themselves and their outfits online and think that its so clever.»

But this is great news for OUR readers, because you are now going to stand out as a creative and clever person amongst the yawners, oddballs, and desperadoes.

Often, people who think they sound clever instead come off as angry or mean.

People who are trying to cheat our members or the system, thinking that they are clever, may be not as smart as they think.

Finding willing and sexy people online can be daunting at first, as the internet is full of scams and bogus opportunities, but with a little persistence and clever wits (and my advice!)

then you will appear boring and generic (because a lot of people use this «clever» answer as a response) and people will quickly pass your profile by.

I may describe myself as clever, trustfully, reliable, strong, intelligent, calm, peaceful, surviving, faithfully and fair person.

Most dating sites allow people to mark the same gender as their main interest, and allow clever filtering with the matchmaking engine.

This might not come as a shock for those who've tried these sites before, but most people have a misguided conception thanks to the clever marketing lines displayed on the front page.

There are some genuinely clever gags, such as a moment during a trivia question where Ryan names every single Edward Norton movie except Fight Club (1999), despite obsessing over rich people have their own fight clubs.

We started with the clever use of shoes outside a door to create an unsettling mood before moving on to the terrors of parenthood (as seen here and in his previous screenplay, HANNA), the counterintuitive use of color, and the disturbing behavior of which people are capable of when pushed to extremes (as seen here and in his mini-series, The Night Manager).

Not because «she» is such a clever piece of software - Pacino never tells anyone the truth about her and passes her off as a real flesh and blood person.

There's a clever bit of character building that occurs in the verbal sparring matches between M and C, too — we see M's sense of honor and order and C's inability to care about people either as individuals or collectively.

Although not quite as sharp and clever as the aforementioned Heckerling vehicle, Clueless, I Could Never Be Your Woman (its rather odd choice for a title is derived from a lyric to the 1997 White Town song, «Your Woman», covered by Tyler James in 2005, the same year this was filmed), is actually quite inventive in its own fashion, with Heckerling drawing upon her own experience in being an older woman working in a youth - oriented industry, making entertainment meant to appeal to people about 30 years her junior.

I will merely recommend 10 Cloverfield Lane as a clever, canny thriller, and endorse an insight that Howard offers in a moment of uncharacteristic self - knowledge: «People are strange creatures.»

It also pulls off the clever trick of operating as a gangster movie — these mobsters have missions to complete and people to kill — while at the same time sarkily undermining these same folk, attributing to them a heavy dose of incompetence.

The script tends to be a little too talky at times, pretending to be a more clever than it actually is, but it still retains a playful quality as people begin backstabbing each other in earnest for a bigger share of the money.

It's not especially clever as a lot of people are saying, and simply points out obvious hypocrisies within the world of religion while swearing every other word.

(One clever and unsettling example involves people etching scars into their own flesh as a means of sending an indelible message to their future selves.)

In this elegant argument for oversight, the use of «enhanced persons» as a PC euphemism for mutants or human lab experiments is particularly clever.

This is a film that begins as a clever joke, only to reveal itself as a dark study of how loneliness, the mundane, a lack of fulfillment, and jealousy can turn a person into a monster.

In a clever styling twist, though, the Kona doesn't seem nearly as diminutive as the Chevy Trax or CX - 3 either in pictures or in person.

As usual Dodge manages to throw some clever features into its new people mover.

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I see you want to cast aspersions here and I bet you believed you were being clever when claiming you were doing an ad hominem attack; you weren't, by the way, you specifically mentioned that you were attacking an argument and ad hominem would be an attack on my person as a rebuttal to my argument)

When the iPhone case is described by the designer as «the brush that has everyone talking», it may seem like a clever pun (that probably goes over the heads of most people that would be shopping for this kind of thing).

Many people have become clever as they are paying off debt and getting their new loan with a fixed rate 2nd mortgage.

It's far more clever than people often give it credit for, seeing nothing more than a parade of fart jokes, but not as clever as it sometimes seems to think it is.

As someone who has also worked closely with marketing, one of the the more amusing aspects of the job was either devising a clever gimmick or seeing how other companies delivered their products to other industry people or retailers.

Throughout the narrative The Turing Test attempts to tackle a lot of sci - fi staples, including questions about humanity, what makes a person and whether an A.I. can become essentially human, before wrapping up using the kind of ambiguous ending that writers always seem to think is clever To be brutally honest it's never as smart as it would like to believe.

Since the release of Konami's groundbreaking P.T. demo, lots of developers tried to recreate the tense, clever, first - person scares of that experience as a full game, but all of them (including Konami) failed... except for Bloober Team with Layers of Fear, one of the scariest, unsettling, disturbing and downright clever experiences ever made.