ingenious

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The entire series, written by the clever Ben Elton, extrapolated what little is known about the Bard into an ingenious series of perfectly plausible comic dilemmas, and an occasional unexpected dramatic one.

From The Wall Street Journal

I found some of the texts ingenious, but it all felt a bit too earnest, too consciously instructional to inspire.

From New York Times

“Dimanche” — ingenious, horrifying — suggests an alternative: Sometimes, you just have to laugh.

From New York Times

He painted the epic excavations at Pennsylvania Station, a feat of ingenious construction and brute power on the order of the Panama Canal.

From Washington Post

Scalpers have found some ingenious ways to resell Cure tickets — one method, documented on the tech site Motherboard, involved the transfer of entire Ticketmaster accounts — as Ticketmaster has struggled to police these problems.

From New York Times