Sentences with phrase «do something clever»

For one thing to start the reaction you have to bust a C - H bond rather than do something clever such as insert into a double bond, etc

If Toyota wanted to do something clever, it would take a page from the Tesla / Fisker strategy book and introduce series plug - in hybrids and electric cars as luxury vehicles since the extra costs for the battery and R&D; would be a much smaller fraction of the total price compared to, say, a $ 30k vehicle.

«Some of our retailers do something clever.

They'd like to raise more capital to buy out a weak competitor so, at Charlie's suggestion, they do something clever: they sell Dan 20 % of the business (new ownership structure: Alice — > 26.66 %, Bob — > 26.66 %, Charlie — > 26.66 %, Dan — > 20 %).

That meme on Facebook — could you do something clever with your cover art or photos of people holding up your book?

My jackpot - winning clients did something clever when they approached potential professionals: They went through the interview process by discussing their situation, but didn't disclose how much they had won until late in the meeting.

Too - easy puzzles, on the other hand, would feel pointless without the player getting that sweet mini-rush out of feeling like they did something clever.

Each level pushes you in different ways and always has you doing something clever; it really keeps you hooked in and ensures it's never just a case of beating down enemies or jumping between platforms.

This happened quite often in software patent abstracts where some young programmer thought they'd done something clever and new and I'd say «No, so and so at XYZ corporation did that in product ABC».

Not exact matches

A hack, the way Parker defines it, is «a clever work - around or a clever way of leveraging an existing system to do something you didn't think it was going to be able to do.»

More likely is that Murphy is doing something one step cleverer than that.

Likely you did not even realize that positing these questions make it look like you really think you are saying something clever in front of all us drones.

Indeed, it can even be read as a mockery of the whole literary enterprise, pairing dull and uncomprehending readers who ploddingly manage to miss the obvious, with clever authors (both the fictional Vereker and the actual James) who feel compelled to play the trickster, taunting their readers with the hint that there is something — indeed, the whole point of it all — that they don't get.

When he ceases to wail about preaching being sick and confesses that his preaching is sick, then the preacher will be willing to do something constructive: not simply choosing more controversial topics and more clever titles to divert attention from his monotonous method of outlining, but choosing a mode of discourse appropriate to the content to be shared and the experience he hopes will occur.

You are not learning the lessons of the internet — like: 800 word posts do little responding to batsh.t crazy trolls is just a waste of time most people do not come here to learn but come only to say something they think is clever... and so on.

This isn't even one of those «Oh, I had leftover ingredients from my last recipe, so I had to come up with something clever to do with them» posts (though I am likely to do that from time to time).

Yeah, At first, I thought that this news was legitimate as Adidas done something similar with a Mkhitaryan shirt aweek before he moved to Utd, but when I realised that this mahrez news is only coming from one clever chav on Twitter, who has probably used a photoshop on his Screenshot to edit the name.

I desperately tried to come up with something really clever to sing, but the best I could do, is, to the tune «Ee - Aye - Adio», «We've won the League, we've won the league, Ee - Aye - Batshuayi, we've won the League».

plus he doesn't like to do the obvious things that everyone wants but something that he thinks is more clever and less obvious, costs less (and is less effective).

I was on a first - name basis with the teachers, who every day at pick - up would tell me how my guy was doing, something clever he had said in class that day.

They are clever and they do act on our (instintive) side which fear something bad might happen to our little ones.

I don't want to hide behind the cover forever and I need some help coming up with something clever to use when a breastfeeding hate monger gives my grief.

Bottom line, if he does decide he wants in the politics game, Bharara may have a real tight window ahead of 2018 elections to brainstorm something clever.

«It's a very clever idea and it's something that was waiting to be done,» says Michael Huffman at Kyoto University in Japan, a primatologist who studies rock handling behaviour in Japanese macaques.

Whenever their research questions strike him as uninspired, Clevers urges them to be more ambitious: «Why don't you pursue something you don't know?»

Very clever use for something so simple, don't know why I didn't think of it.

Do you ever see something online and think it's really neat / cute / clever... and then you see it's sold out?

Not too sure what to put here yet - not sure if this is legit so I don't really want to put a lot of effort into something super clever if it isn't going to get read.

So he tries to come up with something very clever or funny or interesting to say or do when approaching her.

Someone help clear this up for me... I can't believe that Animal Crossing would name a shop that DID N'T have some sort of pun or joke or clever relation to something.

The Powers That Be, however, clever things that they are, have surrounded Lautner with a bunch of wonderful older and more experienced actors who do a pretty decent job of convincing us that the decidedly average script has something to offer.

The actors are good though: Carey Mulligan doing that clever waif thing that's worked for actresses from Audrey Hepburn to Natalie Portman, Olivia Williams and Emma Thompson as teachers who for some reason can't explain why they like teaching (it'd be inconvenient for the plot or something, I guess), and Alfred Molina as the father.

But, where most 50 - somethings are content to make do with a Ferrari and a ponytail, he has to be all clever and get himself dancing lessons and a J - Lo.

But Leisure Suit Larry does have the benefit of name recognition, if nothing else, and in the hands of the right developer it could be turned into something genuinely clever.

Well, Lenny's wife Roxanne (Salma Hayek), who even Lenny admits in the movie's single and genuinely clever joke is too beautiful for him, is over-emotional (the movie's opinion of her) because she wants to have another kid, so it does aim one sexist stereotype at one of its few major female characters (Speaking of sexism, can we talk about the MPAA ratings board's glaring double standard in pointing out that a movie's nudity is of the «male rear» variety, directly implying that there's something different — worse, more offensive — about the same of the female kind?).

When the movie actually does find something sort of clever, it's not until the very end when Gilly discovers the identity of his real birth mother.

When you think he can't top himself, he comes up with even more clever solutions for melding old with new, making it look better than it did before — something that only happens when the eye of an artist is connected to the hands of a mad fabricator.

And the company discovered something very clever that it can do with that technology.

It punches out of the corner with incredible speed and I can feel, with magnificent clarity, the clever all - wheel drive system doing something magical.

These samples are great, you could definitely do something more clever or interesting... but they get the point across.

I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe.

This means that the Blockchain is extremely secure, but the trouble with having this clever but complicated bit of tech in place is that it makes getting the concept of Bitcoin right hard, and lots of people aren't prepared to invest in something they don't know anything about.

For Tesco has done something rather clever here.

I like doing that too, but you have to be careful, because maybe you are missing something that cleverer investors know.

The difficult part is to fight the urge to do something, to be clever and make a quick 25 % in a month.

The A350 is a fantastic aircraft with some very clever new technology but, while the aircraft is doing its best to enhance passenger comfort with larger windows and excellent heating / cooling / air circulation systems, I haven't heard of a single thing that Lufthansa is doing with the A350 that will improve the experience for passengers... perhaps they're saving something for closer to launch date?

It is worth noting that some of the early puzzles in the game don't really make you feel all that clever as there were a few times that I solved something by accident as opposed to executing an idea that I had.

Even something as sinfully difficult as I Wan na Be The Guy rewards action / reaction, adaptability, and your own clever thinking to get past challenges, and doesn't just accept that there's only one way to beat every level.

This is done through a very clever mechanic which listens to the frequency of your voice and based on it the AI reacts to different situations so, for example, if you want AI to put money into a bag at a speed faster than they would normally do so, you'd shout into the mic and say something like «quicker, put the money in the bag» and they move faster.

Games as smartly focused as Joe Danger don't roll around every week, so it's refreshing to get my hands on something so clever and yet so easy to play.