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He’s very good at finding clever ways of encoding problems as SAT problems.

Few of us are as clever as my Inspector Morse-loving friend.

The clever part is that the present was “re-gifted” from city and state tax revenues.

The clever crooks managed to rack up $2 million in profits over a year, Ares said.

He wants to show her how clever he is and, more importantly, how well the script is going, that there is hope, a future.

The small band of French critics helped shift the view of Hitchcock from a clever, popular entertainer to a Significant Artist.

And so this is why the clever performer cannot reproduce the effect of a speech of Demosthenes or Daniel Webster.

I have taken a violent dislike to more than one clever American man merely because he trailed his voice through his nose.

For some time he said nothing, and then he remarked that I was very clever, but he did n't see a word of sense in what I said.

It was as if he had said: "You think yourself very clever, but do you suppose that I can't read the notes in a time-table?"

But all men at times betray themselves, and some betrayals, if scarcely clever, are not without nobility.