A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. From LearnThat.org. [Albert Einstein (1879-1955).]
A clever gadget. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Chilling it certainly is, but I'm not sure "clever" is exactly right. From Wordnik.com. [Point of View in Fiction] Reference
It is an operation so absorbing that it often weakens those pettier talents which make what we call the clever man. From Wordnik.com. [Put Yourself in His Place] Reference
"It depends what you call clever and what you call dirty," said Wenger, who was asked whether he felt Scholes tackled unfairly. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
They are clever -- "clever" is perhaps not the word, but they are possessed of that native, almost beast-like type of cunning. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Crusade Against Crime] Reference
Now that's what I call a clever non-answer answer!. From Wordnik.com. [ON THE BUBBLE WITH ALEXANDRA SOKOLOFF] Reference
How clever is thy tongue and how dear is thy speech!. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The problem: making kids clever is way too expensive. From Wordnik.com. [How to save the economy without really trying: a guide for Gideon Osborne] Reference
What is rare in clever families, it was uncontroversial. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Kazan says: ok i think Bar is engaged in clever satire now. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Brownback Holds Up Drawing Of Embryo, Asks ‘Are You Going To Kill Me?’] Reference
The Kindle, while clever, is a pretty danged lame reading device. From Wordnik.com. [Bunches of Books Yanked from Amazon] Reference
"But they're bloomin 'clever, them chaps," said an admiring voice. From Wordnik.com. [THE SPIKE] Reference
How many sports presenters would you describe as clever or perceptive?. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
We've even got our own Pitchfork of sorts in clever-cute-cool Offworld, now. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
I found it very amusing but a kid this clever is or is going to be a future hacker. From Wordnik.com. [Helpless Halloween Victims] Reference
The vibe is more Halloween party than Roman Colosseum, and it sneaks up in clever ways. From Wordnik.com. [Learning to Love Baseball by the Bay] Reference
And then he confronts a case that, in clever fashion, points out both his strengths and his flaws. From Wordnik.com. [Critic's Corner Tuesday] Reference
But what I didn't expect was to find a movie that was intensely clever from a marketing standpoint. From Wordnik.com. [Talladega Nights] Reference
Those interested in clever watch display should check out the timepieces made by Vincent Calabrese. From Wordnik.com. [Photos Taken At The Right Time] Reference
Getting cut up and turned into something fleeting and clever for the sake of being clever is ignoble. From Wordnik.com. [recycle] Reference
Becca, another thing I like about Jasmine is that she contributes to the team in clever and brave ways. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Featured: Which female characters are the most awful and why? Who’s awesome?] Reference
Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder/ RandsInRepose.com: I need rapid fire content delivery in short, clever, punch phrases. From Wordnik.com. [Internet Anxiety Disorder Anyone?] Reference
I never can tell what they call clever from what they call silly, but I always know whether I like a story or not. ". From Wordnik.com. [At the Back of the North Wind] Reference
His mother had called her clever and cunning as a serpent. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Mackenzie] Reference
He was already well known as a clever and fortunate captain, when in. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century] Reference
She was described as a clever, interesting woman who wished to study. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Second Sight] Reference
Press, and was already known as a clever news-gatherer and interviewer. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis] Reference
An actor who is good only at acting, he is not to be called a clever man. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Craig asked, recalling the clever young wife of the middle-aged professor. From Wordnik.com. [The War Terror] Reference
By this time Defoe had begun to write, and was already known as a clever author. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
Donna Marianna was not called clever, but her heart was wiser than most women's heads. From Wordnik.com. [Crucial Instances] Reference
I am suffering from the stupidity of so - called clever people; and you mustn't mind it. From Wordnik.com. [Watersprings] Reference
It may, in short, be called a clever scientific commentary on the shepherd's observations. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
I consider there is none worse than the despotism of so-called clever men; confound them! '. From Wordnik.com. [Rudin] Reference
What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
She is also known as a clever business woman; at present she rules the state of Keng Kham during the minority of her son. From Wordnik.com. [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference
She is described as clever, though uneducated, with all the petty manoeuvring which frequently accompanies this condition. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Shelley] Reference
It was generally characterized as a clever, and even brilliant, expose of philosophies which were no longer startlingly new. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907] Reference
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