Sentences with phrase «of something clever»

Once you include a hook, it makes it so much easier for others to start a conversation with you, rather than trying too hard to think of something clever to say.

Need to think of something clever for my advent calendar.

The leaves will inevitably wilt by the time I can think of something clever to say.

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.»

Virgin Atlantic's wording for its mid-level seating is quite clever: by calling it premium economy rather than business class or something similar, it makes it seem less of a step up even though there is quite a large price difference.

Best Buy has undergone something of a resurrection in recent years — pushed by enhanced efforts in eCommerce, price - matching and clever uses of store locations to match digital - inventory needs.

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.

The sentence is a part of the parable; it means that the employer said something like this: «You rascal, I must admit that you are clever, and I admire your resourcefulness.»

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.

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.

The Addition of the pretzels is such a clever idea, have to keep that in mind for the next homemade snicker bars (I'll try something new and give this recipe a shot for sure!)

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).

We have also witnessed his blistering pace, clever movement, impressive work - rate and trickery with the ball at his feet, making him something of a nightmare for opponents to handle.

Whether you are waiting to find out baby's gender, or simply like an effortless modern look, there is something for boy and girl in this clever collection of organic baby onesies and tees.

While you can definitely find clever ways to announce your pregnancy any time of the year, there's something extra magical about sharing the big news during the holiday season.

It makes clever use of Google to demonstrate how little information there is on Google's own contributions, while there's plenty of stories out there about how the company has managed to become something of a political heavyweight in D.C.

Most clever women would take the remark in the tone it was intended - something falling far short of seriously.

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.

Thanks to some clever accounting and moving money from an arcane state economic development fund, we were able to bankroll the dome without any bonds or loans being issued — something almost unheard of it today when it comes to publicly financed stadiums.

So a less direct approach is called for, something clever yet to be assembled, that will be obvious in hindsight to the rest of us.

Created by colorist Megan Schipani for a client who wanted to «keep it «natural»» but also wanted «something fun,» this clever, two - tone look features a golden blonde inspired by the color of peanut butter and shades of purple to evoke jelly.

The name of the bag alone is cheeky and clever; I love puns and wordplay.I definitely believe Kate Spade created something special in this bag - it's perfect..

To be honest, I have seen a lot of bloggers styling grey in the most clever way imaginable and I doubted I could come up with something even remotely as interesting as they have, but the truth is which ever way you venture at grey, if it is well coordinated you can easily achieve that contemporary urban edge.

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

Money origami is the process of folding paper money to look like something else, and can result in some clever cash gift presentation ideas.

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.

The turnarounds of good and evil, the sudden morphings and faked disappearances lend Megamind the air of something overworked, and possibly too clever for its own good.

«Tummy Trouble», «Rollercoaster Rabbit», and «Trail Mix - Up» are all included here, but while the opening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit functions as both wild cartoon slapstick and hyperbolic parody of same (as well as something of a precursor to the even more satiric Itchy and Scratchy of The Simpsons), the subsequent shorts, beyond lacking the deft, fluid touch of the movie's animation director Richard Williams, are less clever: orchestrations of mayhem that occasionally pause to wink at themselves.

No one would accuse them of excessive smarts, yet only a prude would deny that, culminating in There's Something About Mary, the two had a clever and inventive touch with all things gross.

The gags hit more than they miss, and Stiller has moments of inspired absurdity, but he's capable of something more cutting and clever.

The film slides into its situation in a clever, fresh way, and the balance of wit and horror is well maintained throughout, though Sayles's decision to divide up the protagonist's chores among four main characters costs him something in the intensity of audience identification.

«Ho ho ho, I've just thought of something exceptionally clever to say.»

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 final product is a disappointingly uneven effort that may be a cut above its teen - friendly brethren - the clever references to Halloween and Psycho are alone evidence of this - yet it's impossible not to have expected something more than just a passable time - waster given the caliber of Williamson's first screenplay.

Although the term «cat - and - mouse» has already become synonymous with Gregory Hoblit's Fracture, it's something of a misnomer in that it implies a clever battle of wits.

With one hell of a ensemble and more witty Woody, we're always sure he'll come up with something clever.

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.

Moving into the West End are Beginning, David Eldridge's clever thirty - something romcom, at Ambassadors from 15 January; Robert Icke's production of Mary Stuart, which sees Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams toss a coin for which role they'll play, at Duke of York's from 15 January, and Long Day's Journey into Night — a sell - out at Bristol Old Vic starring Lesley Manville and Jeremy Irons — at Wyndham's from 27 January.

The most fun that could be had at the movies this year, Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's clever, funny, scary feature lovingly deconstructs the creaky subgenre of the slasher flick and puts it back together into something that winks at the familiar tropes while never skimping on being rollickingly entertaining in its own right.

Quickly, though, the movie sacrifices the somewhat clever combination of actual history and biography with the fantasy of the opening acts for something far more generic.

Not a great film, but, a good one that suggests Joseph Gordon - Levitt can mine something clever and refreshing out of something that at first appears worn and cliche.

The result is something that wishes it was the next Fatal Attraction or Funny Games or The Strangers but isn't nearly as smart of clever as it thinks it is.

In Carl Matheson «s early aughties piece on the humour of TVs The Simpsons, he talks about something he calls hyper - irony: «The flavor of humor offered by today's comedies is colder, based less on a shared sense of humanity than on a sense of world - weary cleverer - than - thou - ness.»

Get Hard turns out to be a far cry from something like Trading Places or even the clever first half of the class - insurrection comedy of Tower Heist.

One of the signal hits of 2017 was a fiendishly clever horror parody that put mainstream audiences in the mind of a black man uncovering the conspiracy theory of his life; even the thickest moviegoing Mr. Jones knew there was something happening here.

You wouldn't think that with all the collections of the Smithsonian to play with — and they stole famous works of art and historical objects from other museums around the world and pretended they're on exhibit in Washington DC, too — the filmmakers would have to strain themselves this hard to come up with something they deemed clever, but there we are.

Moving in a variety of clever ways, what starts out as some sort of twee chronicle of a working mom with two kids and an unexpected third little one on the way who finds herself revitalized thanks to the pixie magic effervescence of a night nanny sent to give her a hand suddenly becomes something far more profound and meaningful.

But it's nevertheless clever to give ultimate patriotic idealist Captain America something of a dark (k) night of the soul in tussling with these modern conflicts.