All of Laptsev went to stare at the bride-to-be—she was no beauty, but everyone could see that she was clever, sophisticated …
—
Isaac Bashevis Singer,
New Yorker,
29 Sept. 2003
… the three of them may give Gray Davis, who was too clever for his own good, his comeuppance.
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Garrison Keillor,
Time,
25 Aug. 2003
Some thought he had no redeeming value whatsoever. A sociopath. A clever manipulator …
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Louise Erdrich,
New Yorker,
2 Dec. 2002
Those who can't write poetry, write clever letters to the editor. Those who can't write clever letters to the editor, write angry letters to the editor.
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Matt Groening,
Utne Reader,
November/December 1987
The old lady was clever enough and he thought that if she had started from any of the right premises, more might have been expected of her.
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Flannery O'Connor,
Everything That Rises Must Converge,
1967
Some cats are clever enough to figure out how to operate doorknobs.
That's the cleverest idea I've heard yet!
She found a clever hiding place for the letter.
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