smarts

Where are the sensible, honorable folks who possess the smarts and the backbone to craft a fair deal?

The goslings had made plenty of short flights, but a migration would require real strength and smarts.

Thanks to her robotic strength and smarts, she made excellent progress.

It made me realize that I had book knowledge in a situation that demanded street smarts.

But it only ever feels like homage, not anything organic — Stuckmann doesn’t have his mentor’s storytelling smarts, nor his flair for the underpinnings of normality that ground horror.