cleverness

How To Use cleverness In A Sentence

• But, in the end, it is a production in which raw passion is always subservient to intellectual cleverness.
• Oh, aye; ye can be gey clever, twistin 'the words in my mouth, feyther; but richt is richt, an' wrang's wrang, for all yer cleverness. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays
• It is as this dissonant crescendo of drama builds that the novel's cleverness reveals itself.
• So he drave out to Miriam, who ran at him with the best of her skill and charged him with the goodliness of her cleverness and her courage and her cunning in fence and cavalarice, crying to him, “O accursed, O enemy of Allah and the Moslems, I will assuredly send thee after thy brothers and woeful is the abiding-place of the Miscreants!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Not only is the film a technically impressive feat, the plot so far suggests a certain cleverness on a higher level than a simple, stock genre flick.
• The distinction of the Teniers was the extreme fidelity and cleverness with which they copied (but did not explain) the life they knew -- the homeliest, humblest aspect of life. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art
• When the lad grew big enough to handle the small-sized plasher the old man took him as partner, and he boasts about the little fellow's cleverness. The Romance of the Coast
• Nor do the workers themselves complain of this, for, full of admiration for what they call the cleverness of their leaders, they have by their votes rendered possible the gradual rise of these in public life. Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
• As if to defy the Depression, newspapers put a premium on cleverness, challenging readers with ballades and triolets, rhyming versions of operas, travelogues in verse.
• The failure of love punctuates much of the intellectual cleverness of Farrell's works.