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The question he directed at me was my cue, and in the back of the limousine I’d spent some time thinking about clever and unexpected answers to a million different questions about Avatar, although perhaps not this particular one.

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.