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
So she does the first thing that clues us in to the cleverness of the enterprise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
They found the cleverness of their forebears’ music, with its fugues, its interweaving counterpoint, its layering upon layer of sounds, too academic and dry, rather like student exercises.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing cleverness
"The Experiment" and "Superstition"
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