40 adjectives to describe cleverness

"Well, for one thing," he told her, "the company has been planned and worked out with simply diabolical cleverness.

We may reasonably hope that the literature of superficial cleverness and smart cynicism, which has been in vogue for the last period, will have had its day, that the perpetrators of such literature will be, measurably speaking, without audience at the conclusion of the War.

Then with an old key and a fileMonsieur is a great detective, perhaps, but I, too," with Gaston boastfulness, "can aspire to a little cleverness.

Finally he got on to his marvellous cleverness in the training of the young.

He is a scholar and a gentleman; but, in spite of his claims of long descent and his extraordinary natural cleverness, he has never been widely popular in this country as the Collie and the Fox-Terrier are popular.

On the contrary, he is capable of being trained into remarkable cleverness, as circus proprietors have discovered.

The young man was not only a good journalist, but possessed sufficient cleverness and tact to make him excellent company.

It is all, as I say, so simple, and written with such apparent economy of effort, that only afterwards does the amazing cleverness of Mrs. WHARTON'S method impress itself upon the reader.

She was not a woman of exceptional cleverness, but she had what may be called the intelligence of the heart, and her mind had been cultivated by the influence of her husbanda distinguished physician much older than herself.

You inherit much of his force of character, and that is what gave you the reputation of extreme cleverness among your more commonplace companions.

" All this is quite true, but it was not for such facile cleverness as The Candidate that the lovers of poetry were impatient.

She had shown a fiendish cleverness in placing Gwenda with Lady Frances.

It was all right before you came with your horrible cleverness.

They're so direct of speechbut patient waiting, And foresight, humble cleverness, they lack.

In view of his success and the use for a time made of his works, he must rank as a forger, though they are now in esteem solely for their intrinsic cleverness.

His linguistic cleverness was a fair specimen of his general quickness of intellect.

The successful scenario writers, who conceive our best plays, are the real heart of this business, and the next to them in importance are the directors, or producers, who exercise marvelous cleverness in staging the work of the authors.

In Life, as in Literature, our admiration for mere cleverness has a touch of contempt in it, and is very unlike the respect paid to character.

A peculiar skill seems to have been developed among writers during the last twenty yearsthat of writing in the manner of some master, not merely with mimetic cleverness, but with genuine creative power.

Miss Steele was a plain girl about thirty, whose whole conversation was of beaux; while Miss Lucy Steele, a pretty girl of twenty-three, was, despite her native cleverness, probably common and illiterate.

The game has foiled us with its own peculiar cleverness.

The constable was explaining with parental vanity the precocious cleverness of his youngest child, a girl of two, when Holymead made his appearance, and he became aware that Mr. Crewe's interest in children was at an end.

Potts's carpentering, Potts's all-round cleverness, was, like "payrock in a pocket," as the miners say, speedily worked out, and not a trace of it afterwards to be found.

The fellow had a cynical distrust of human nature that had persuaded him Kit could not resist the temptation; his shallow cleverness sometimes misled him and had done so when he took it for granted that Kit was Adam's clerk.

When Mrs. Pankhurst, the English suffragette, was in America she met and became very much attached to Mrs. Lee Preston, a New York woman of singular cleverness of mind and personal attraction.

40 adjectives to describe  cleverness