cleverness
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St Mirren character, St Mirren cleverness, St Mirren glory - all there in black and white and in fantastic technicolour too.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025
The fights and chases are semi-effective, but there’s such a startling lack of cleverness that it’s as if the filmmakers took “Idiocracy” as a guide rather than a warning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
Other jokes trade in more broadly-appealing cleverness; for example, that same brief frame at the cop con show featuring Yola Tomassi singing “Frisk and Shout” in the style of The Beatles.
From Salon • May 8, 2025
It’s so creative and clever, but it doesn’t lose its heart in the cleverness.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2024
While I don’t know about the cleverness part, I do know that I am curious about the world—from worms and bugs to chicken fights and the bras Ma hangs in her room.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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"The Experiment" and "Superstition"
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