For that moment, her coquettish cleverness and quick, cute remarks melted away. |
He spoke loudly, often exploding into laughter at his own cleverness and compelling attention with a strange stutter. |
This epigrammatic style is fun, but if repeated one becomes aware that it points as much towards the author's cleverness as the subject in hand. |
It is as this dissonant crescendo of drama builds that the novel's cleverness reveals itself. |
Both are very skilful indeed at reaching out to other people who resent cleverness and learning. |
A few studies of phonaesthetics are well-known for the cleverness of their design and the nebulosity of their results. |