Cleverness Sentence Examples

My cleverness is unsurpassed!

Here's where Edith's cleverness comes into play.

I amaze myself with my cleverness.

Surely such sleuthing and cleverness deserves more reward than hiding in the bushes and watching the dogs of law ineptly do their duty.

Cleverness naturally and rapidly took the place of nature, and decadence then began..

Indolence was supposed to be the keynote of his character - a refined indolence, not, however, without cleverness of a somewhat cynical and superior order.

Louise, who concealed great cleverness and a strong will under an appearance of languor and a rather childish beauty (Evelyn the diarist speaks of her "baby face"), yielded only when she had already established a strong hold on the king's affections and character.

When, after various journalistic indiscretions, James Franklin in 1722 was forbidden to publish the Courant, it appeared with Benjamin's name as that of the publisher and was received with much favour, chiefly because of the cleverness of his articles signed " Dr Janus," which, like those previously signed " Mistress Silence Dogood," gave promise of " Poor Richard."

Bonapartes cleverness lay in opposing Daunous plan to that 01 Sieys, and in retaining only those portions of both which could serve his ambition.

He therefore set all his wonderful cleverness to the task, going so far as to adopt a little even of that Romantic disobedience to the strict classical theory which he condemned, and no doubt sincerely, in Shakespeare.

Another portrait is included in a set of sketches by native artists, some of which, taken probably from life, show great care and cleverness.

Many are clever enough to know the truth, but choose to use their clever enough to know the truth, but choose to use their cleverness to continue to hide behind it.

Frankly it 's dire stuff, all twiddles and cleverness, bright and nasty synthesizer sounds set against bright and nasty drum loops.

The monkey is one of the twelve Chinese zodiac birth signs, symbolizing cleverness and versatility.

The brown or black bag that provides the structure of the handbag isn't a particularly stylish choice, which is where Miche's cleverness comes into play.

This kind of dialogue has been employed in English, and with conspicuous cleverness by Mr Anstey Guthrie, but it does not seem so easily appreciated by English as by French readers.

An alchemist of words, in her hands cleverness is transmuted into poetry and passion.

Many others are also discovering the cleverness and usefulness behind this ingenious lip gloss.

The point of the pickup line, if used correctly, is to demonstrate interest, confidence, sincerity, and above all, cleverness.

They vary in strength and cleverness, which means they are not always easy to spot.

The vividness of the descriptions and the cleverness with which the conversations were reported ensured a success, and the work was translated into several languages.

Wallis having been betrayed originally by his fatal cleverness into the pettiest carping at words, Hobbes had retorted in kind, and then it became a high duty in the other to defend his Latin with great parade of learning and give fresh provocation.

Anatole was sincerely fond of Dolokhov for his cleverness and audacity.

Nevertheless, her cleverness, volubility, energy and will-power enabled her to maintain her ground, and when she died on the 8th of May 1891 (White Lotus Day), at the theosophical headquarters in the Avenue Road, London, she was the acknowledged head of a community numbering not far short of 100,000, with journalistic organs in London, Paris, New York and Madras.

By his alliance with the Liberals under Nicotera in 1891, and by his understanding with the Radicals under Cavallotti in 1894-98; by abandoning his Conservative colleague, General Ricotti, to whom he owed the premiership in 1896; and by his vacillating action after his fall from power, he divided and demoralized a constitutional party which, with greater sincerity and less reliance upon political cleverness, he might have welded into a solid parliamentary organization.

In much of his writings, and in his general attitude, there was to most people an undertone of rather nasty suggestion which created prejudice against him, and his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), with all its sparkle and cleverness, impressed them more from this point of view than from its purely literary brilliance.

Had General Pratt or General Cameron, who commanded the imperial forces from 1860 to 1865, had the rough vigour of their successor, General Chute, or the cleverness of Sir George Grey, the war might have ended in 1864.

These articles, while not lacking in a certain cleverness, were violent and abusive, and purposely couched in foul language in order to appeal to the mob.

He displays his own vanity, frivolity and futile cleverness with much unconscious humour, but, it is only fair to allow, with some literary dexterity.

Louis Philippe abdicated and fled to England almost destitute, being smuggled over the Channel by the cleverness of the British consul at Havre, and the queen employed Sir Robert Peel as her intermediary for providing him with money to meet his immediate wants.

That his characteristic is for the most part an almost superhuman cleverness rather than positive genius is also true.