Sentences with word «cleverness»

As these injustices are bandied about, Faith feels not only incensed and confused but also ashamed for masking her own cleverness so that she might be thrown a scrap of worthwhile conversation: «Rejection had worn Faith down....

But it does so with cleverness, verve, and depth.

Give Melissa Mark - Viverito credit for cleverness: By having the City Council vote Friday on the outrageous anti-horse-carriage bill, she's minimized the public anger over the obscene council - pay - hike bill set for...

But Burger King's attempt at cleverness doesn't seem worthwhile, with people needing to do a web search to figure out what was meant.

Enjoyable to read a series with a main character who uses cleverness as opposed to the usual brainless brawls you see in so many others.

Year attempts cleverness by being a sort of a rebellious anti-romantic comedy, but frustratingly ends up with many of the tired rom - com clichés anyway.

For a brief while, John Wick: Chapter 2 promises the same level of cleverness as its predecessor, but all too soon it descends into a messy series of violent sequences.

Blur and squeegee in hand, he grows over a career from cleverness into irony and a brush with the past.

Alas, at length a man sees what cleverness and this earthly hope amount to!

One danger that besets pastoral counseling is that it will lose its awareness of the spiritual element in all healing and will become infatuated, in an idolatrous way, with the human cleverness of psychology.

Risk control triumphs over cleverness in the long run.

The solution is more about cleverness than it is about compromise.

Only the most easily pleased fans of foul - mouthed comedy will respond to these jokes and set pieces, which generally lack cleverness or comic imagination.

I thought when he was coming through he looked like he could nail down a right midfield position, and looked a bit like Parlour with a bit more cleverness to his attacking play, but I don't think he's ever fully adjusted to playing CM in the 4 -3-3 formation.

You will make more money in the long run avoiding foolish risks, than through cleverness in taking obscure risks ordinarily.

Veteran American indie filmmaker Kevin Smith tries his hand at semi-sinister horror with Tusk, a so - so offering where cleverness is often cancelled out by laziness.

For all the algorithmic cleverness behind the technology, a huge amount of its heavy lifting amounts to a kind of fine - grained market research.

The 2015 Toyota Camry Hybrid is the most engaging car in the Camry lineup, not due to performance driving characteristics but for the sheer cleverness of its hybrid drivetrain and excellent fuel economy, while its roomy sedan body and app integration give it modern all - around utility.

by Walter Chaw As sociology goes, «The Simple Life» is not without cleverness.

The one who wills the Good puts cleverness to an inward use in order to prevent all evasions, and thereby to help him enter into and persist in the commitment.

The Eleven O'Clock is the least significant of the group in terms of broader social relevance, but it nails its concept with such cleverness and wit that it is the greatest overall success as a short film.

No colour - flipping cleverness like Ikaruga, no crazy weapon systems, no fancy scoring mechanics.

Ah... but the real cleverness lies beneath... you may be asking where on earth do I carry my golf shoes?

And as the charges also show, the greedy art of secret self - reward was practiced with particular cleverness and cynicism by the Speaker himself,» Bharara said.

The big problem is that Berg's cleverness stops at the plot: the dialogue is simply flat and his direction is flashy but lacks bite.

Always ahead of the game in technology and efficiency, the fortwo is an agile compact that takes cleverness to the extreme.

Reaching the audience through online links and websites generally requires cleverness rather than cash, and doesn't have to overcome the kind of inertia that's presented at almost every sales level in book publishing.

But the sufferer who sincerely wills the Good, uses this very cleverness to cut off evasions and hence to launch himself into the commitment and to escape the disillusionments of choosing the temporal way.

It can restore the sense of wonder which, in our worship of the golden calf of technological cleverness, often gets trampled underfoot like a delicate flower.

Here cleverness may be misused in a multitude of ways.

Think Stanley Fish without real cleverness and rhetorical élan.

Their innate cleverness makes them easy to train for performance and agility events.

They might enjoy cleverness, but they enjoy kindness more.

Daren Bader specializes in the kind of casual Conceptualism — think of the Swiss duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss, or Mark Leckey — that looks dumb on the surface but purports to contain lower registers of intelligence (or at least cleverness).

All those clever foreign ideas about pasta and broccoli and not getting pissed absolutely all the time, brought to England, which distrusts cleverness almost as much as it distrusts foreignness, and absolutely can not abide them in combination.

Using a little cleverness.

The music had almost no hooks to speak of and lyrics try and fail to match cleverness of Black and Malkmus.

Their goals, again, include becoming anonymous murderers, whose killings gain them fame and whose cleverness prevents them from being caught.

And setting this story against the backdrop of Australia's obsession with winning the America's Cup is part of the subtle cleverness that warrants multiple viewings.

Allen is clearly coasting here, with a screenplay that relies on obvious wordplay for its alleged cleverness, characters who repeatedly say exactly how they're feeling at any given moment, and a directorial style that brings to mind the stage and camera blocking of a play captured with a single camera.

I could tolerate that kind of crude humor if it was funnier or surrounded by enough cleverness.