Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. From LearnThat.org. [Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875), English historian & author.]
With these the English word ingenious has an obvious connection, especially in its earlier use as applied to men of letters. From Wordnik.com. [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference
Also the connection between belief and tool-making, while ingenious, is also purely speculative. From Wordnik.com. [A second opinion ...] Reference
I am just writing on how I think your plan on protecting marriage between a man and a woman in ingenious!. From Wordnik.com. [06/13/2005] Reference
He began in 1630 with a prose tract, the Hero, laboured in short ingenious sentences, which went through six editions. From Wordnik.com. [The Spectator, Volume 2.] Reference
A third group may be called the ingenious-mystery stories. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived] Reference
It's not difficult to recall the ingenious ways they mixed up. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
The answer was lazy, simple, and ingenious -- in other words, pure Ternovskiy. From Wordnik.com. [Chatroulette Selling Pantless Chatters To Hustler] Reference
In the second place, the Elizabethans were ingenious, that is, they were imaginative and resourceful. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Literature] Reference
I called your ingenious proposition “Solomon’s solution” for a reason: real mother will not allow her child being cut in half. From Wordnik.com. [The T3 Tax « Climate Audit] Reference
I’d also recommend “Problems for Self Study” and “The Man Who Became Himself” for playing with the format in ingenious ways. From Wordnik.com. [Short Recommendations « Write Anything] Reference
I haven’t even looked at the new website the DNC has created, thenextcheney, com, but the audacity of their creative ingenious is a joke. From Wordnik.com. [D.N.C. Web Site Seeks to Link Potential V.P.’s to Cheney and Bush - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
A real reviewer would doubtless also comment on its "ingenious" cable guides as well. From Wordnik.com. [BSNYC Product Review: Look 566 Road Bicycle] Reference
So, what kind of ingenious yet thrifty marketing scheme has The Weinstein Company come up with?. From Wordnik.com. [The Weinstein Co. Partners with the UFC to Promote INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS – Collider.com] Reference
And in it I found a passing reference to an "ingenious" theory about two versions of Holbein's portrait of Thomas More's family. From Wordnik.com. [Vanora Bennett - An interview with author] Reference
The critic used words like "ingenious" and "timely" to describe the book, but she clearly wasn't a fan of action-adventure novels. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: Shrewd Writing Advice From Some of Science Fiction's & Fantasy's Best Writers] Reference
The misprint "ingenious" has been corrected in both these issues. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry] Reference
The misprint "ingenious" for "ingenuous" occurs in a footnote to p. 16. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry] Reference
The misprint "ingenious" for "ingenuous youth," in footnote (p. 7) to line. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry] Reference
The newspaper says the "ingenious" measure belongs to a deep tradition of charity in. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
The evidence from language is treated scientifically, and not as a kind of ingenious guessing. From Wordnik.com. [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference
The zoo describes Karta as "ingenious" and says she's tried to outsmart her keepers in the past. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
This argument was sarcastically described as "ingenious" by Gregory Mitchell, the HMRC's barrister. From Wordnik.com. [ESPNsoccernet] Reference
Okay, the bag's kind of ingenious, but also kind of frivolous when you realize it's just a zip-loc with spray paint on it. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from The Sun] Reference
The Miscellany is open to all "ingenious" men whatever their opinions may be, whether they be the disciples of Filmer, of Locke, of. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.] Reference
Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel, he's a master of the kind of ingenious-stupido metalhead logic that masks egomania in deluded optimism. From Wordnik.com. [EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines] Reference
I saw a kid do it in 7th grade during a game on my club team. not exactly "ingenious" as this is standard soccer stuff but cool nonetheless. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
The "Torqued Spirals" take this ingenious esthetic further. From Wordnik.com. [Sculpture For The Soul] Reference
Songs became ingenious one-chord riffs, varied with an equally ingenious "bridge" section. From Wordnik.com. [James Brown, 1933-2006] Reference
It's an ingenious variation on the old threat to shoot yourself if you don't get your way. From Wordnik.com. [How Saddam Won This Round] Reference
The Cameroon study was an ingenious effort to see whether people are still being exposed to SIV. From Wordnik.com. [Breeding Grounds] Reference
On its surface, Bush's immigration proposal seems like an ingenious bid to build on that support. From Wordnik.com. [SE HABLA ELECTORAL VOTES] Reference
Afterward, theorists devised equally ingenious ideas-but none had much to do with the real world. From Wordnik.com. [How Is A Quark Like A Frisbee?] Reference
Rusting in a campus yard is the ingenious steel dervish, a remote-controlled mine-clearing device. From Wordnik.com. [Sky High] Reference
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