Use "cleverness" in a sentence

1. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind

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2. More than technology, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and consideration

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3. The varnishing rooms were acrid and stung his eyes but were no less impressive for their lack of waste and cleverness of application

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4. ” He grinned at his own cleverness

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5. go boom, boom!” They laughed and howled at their own ideas of cleverness

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6. The air of the narrow cell took a rosy tinge; he began to think of his friends, and how they would surely be able to do something; of lawyers, and how they would have enjoyed his case, and what an ass he had been not to get in a few; and lastly, he thought of his own great cleverness and resource, and all that he was capable of if he only gave his great mind to it; and the cure was almost complete

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7. ’ Monty knew the agency prized his cleverness but think too far outside the box and they might decide your genius wasn’t worth the risk

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8. thing to assert that his money and his cleverness provides for me

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9. Thus was the crafty Negro foiled; a man of undoubted talent, whose cleverness and education, if directed properly, might have made him a leading light on the Gold Coast

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10. " He giggled inanely at his own cleverness

11. The Atoning may have us in knowledge and experience, but we can more than hold our own for power, cleverness, and the use of the newest techniques

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12. Enlightenment - the psychological stage of development of knowing one's self as awareness and residing as awareness, and the deprogramming of the mind of all energy knots (beliefs) and attachments and identification with roles and cleverness of conditioned thought

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13. How could they know my cleverness?

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14. He is out to change the world with his knowledge, cleverness and quick tongue

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15. your cleverness makes me proud!’ She embraced Rory and then stepped back…’

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16. Nathaniel had great confidence in Jesus' understanding of men as well as in his sagacity and cleverness in handling difficult situations

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17. By bedtime the Master's cleverness in staging the tumultuous entry into Jerusalem had begun to make a somewhat humorous appeal, and he was much cheered up by this reaction

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18. If he had no conscience or else possessed tremendous acting skills, Terence would be quite natural and successful in managing to portray an inconsolable widower; after all, Feltus conceded, this man’s life depended on his ability to deceive the authorities which made him all the more capable of such cleverness and subtlety

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19. After taking a deep breath and sighing in apparent relief that the drama was about to come to an end, Feltus rapped on the door three times loudly enough so that the occupant would be roused if he was still enjoying a peaceful slumber after reveling in premature glory at his own cleverness

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20. On even the slightest doubt of their cleverness, the SMJs would shoot those dead instantly while these SMJs were in state of invisible due to Black helmet

21. He was impressed by the cleverness of Torres’ plan, even though all the equations he was

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22. Where Mercury conjunction natives tend to sleepwalk through life, focusing all their attention on those areas in which they have some degree of superiority or control and ignoring everything else, the elongation natives tend to overuse mind – they are utterly taken by their own cleverness and perspicacity, and refuse to act on the pure promptings of their hearts without first thoroughly rationalizing them

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23. For it is an age of free thought and liberty of action, an age of scientific inquiry, and determination to question and cress-examine ancient opinions, an age of greedy pursuit of pleasure and impatience of restraint, an age of idolatry of intellect, and extravagant admiration of so-called cleverness, an age of Athenian craving for novelty and constant love of change, an age when we see on all sides a bold but ever shifting scepticism, which at one time tells us that man is little better than an ape, and at another that he is little less than a god, an age when there is a morbid readiness to accept the shallowest arguments in favour of unbelief, and a simultaneous lazy unwillingness to investigate the great fundamental evidences of Divine revelation

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24. You discover to your amazement that cleverness and religion do not always go together, and that it is possible for the highest intellect to be ready to thrust God out of His own world

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25. What a fearful contrast to such facts as these appears in the lives and deaths of those who turn their backs on Christ, and seek other masters! What fruits can the advocates of non-Christian theories, and ideas, and principles, point to with all their cleverness? What holy, loving, peaceful quietness of spirit have they exhibited? What victories have they won over darkness, immorality, superstition, and sin? What successful missions have they carried on? What seas have they crossed? What countries have they civilized or moralized? What neglected home populations have they improved? What self-denying labours have they gone through? What deliverance have they wrought in the earth? You may well ask; you will get no answer

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26. The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it

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27. Day by day he grew, and he showed an increase in cleverness and strength of personality, something which made his position greater before his parents

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28. Then it was easy for those who had cleverness and intelligence to recognize what was right from what was false by way of reasonable rational evidence and proof

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29. “But most of his labors required no cleverness,” Than said

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30. 'The little Lot's cleverness invariably falls just short of the demands made upon it

31. Then, immensely proud of her cleverness, she trotted down to the post-office, bought stamps, and put the letter herself in the box

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32. For all his cosmopolitan cleverness, he still had a youthful recklessness about him which was hazardous in a place like this

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33. In spite of this gradual punishment, poor is man, he is proud of himself and thinks that this wealth is because of his skill and cleverness, he may even boasts over pious Muslims and sincere believers, he doesn't know that he is being gradually punished as Allah says:

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34. cleverness involved in transforming the raw goods into gold, and

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35. This too is not a sign of cleverness but shows only mental development

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36. of great cleverness and mental acuteness, andthose that have the ring of spontaneity and

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37. It created the inner universe of imagination, thought, memory, cleverness

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38. The excessive use of straight lines and square forms may be seen in some ancient Egyptian architecture, but this severity was originally, no doubt, softened by the use of colour, and in any case it is nobler and finer than the vicious cleverness of rococo art

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39. „Ploughing the prickly field,' Roy said, laughing at his own cleverness and causing Captain

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40. While the two had been going along conversing in this fashion, the curate observed to Dorothea that she had shown great cleverness, as well in the story itself as in its conciseness, and the resemblance it bore to those of the books of chivalry

41. governing, so that, with a little trimming of his understanding, he would manage any government as easily as the king does his taxes; and moreover, we know already ample experience that it does not require much cleverness or much learning to be a governor, for there are a hundred round about us that scarcely know how to read, and govern like gerfalcons

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42. "I suppose it matters more than her cleverness," he said; "which, after all, would never get her to heaven

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43. and stole into bed, congratulating herself apparently on the cleverness with which

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44. my cleverness, and the woman, who was at last convinced that the man spoke

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45. I omitted the troublesome business of the possession of women, and the procreation of children, and the appointment of the rulers, because I knew that the perfect State would be eyed with jealousy and was difficult of attainment; but that piece of cleverness was not of much service to me, for I had to discuss them all the same

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46. Did you never observe the narrow intelligence flashing from the keen eye of a clever rogue--how eager he is, how clearly his paltry soul sees the way to his end; he is the reverse of blind, but his keen eye-sight is forced into the service of evil, and he is mischievous in proportion to his cleverness?

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47. He should consider the bearing of all these things which have been mentioned severally and collectively upon virtue; he should know what the effect of beauty is when combined with poverty or wealth in a particular soul, and what are the good and evil consequences of noble and humble birth, of private and public station, of strength and weakness, of cleverness and dullness, and of all the natural and acquired gifts of the soul, and the operation of them when conjoined; he will then look at the nature of the soul, and from the consideration of all these qualities he will be able to determine which is the better and which is the worse; and so he will choose, giving the name of evil to the life which will make his soul more unjust, and good to the life which will make his soul more just; all else he will disregard

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48. "Ah, I know her by name!" exclaimed Albert; "she is said to possess as much wit and cleverness as beauty

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49. As the Chief ceased speaking, the other brigands also remained silent, speechless with admiration of his cleverness

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50. ” He was clever, she thought, but his cleverness never touched the world

51. As the speed increased, and the Toad could see on either side of him real fields, and trees, and hedges, and cows, and horses, all flying past him, and as he thought how every minute was bringing him nearer to Toad Hall, and sympathetic friends, and money to chink in his pocket, and a soft bed to sleep in, and good things to eat, and praise and admiration at the recital of his adventures and his surpassing cleverness, he began to skip up and down and shout and sing snatches of song, to the great astonishment of the engine-driver, who had come across washerwomen before, at long intervals, but never one at all like this

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52. "It was simple enough, sir, if you only had known; but with all your cleverness it was impossible that you could know

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53. 'Ho, ho!' he said to himself as he marched along with his chin in the air, 'what a clever Toad I am! There is surely no animal equal to me for cleverness in the whole world! My enemies shut me up in prison, encircled by sentries, watched night and day by warders; I walk out through them all, by sheer ability coupled with courage

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54. cleverness, and presence of mind in emergencies, and cunning in tight places; and rather making out that he had been having a gay and highly-coloured experience

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55. 'Don't you see the cleverness of it?' I said

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56. Then the Mole pulled his chair up to the table, and pitched into the cold tongue; and Toad, like the gentleman he was, put all his jealousy from him, and said heartily, 'Thank you kindly, dear Mole, for all your pains and trouble tonight, and especially for your cleverness this morning!' The Badger was pleased at that, and said, 'There spoke my brave Toad!' So they finished their supper in great joy and contentment, and presently retired to rest between clean sheets, safe in Toad's ancestral home, won back by matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks

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57. All the animals cheered when he entered, and crowded round to congratulate him and say nice things about his courage, and his cleverness, and his fighting qualities; but Toad only smiled faintly, and murmured, 'Not at all!' Or, sometimes, for a change, 'On the contrary!' Otter, who was standing on the hearthrug, describing to an admiring circle of friends exactly how he would have managed things had he been there, came forward with a shout, threw his arm round Toad's neck, and tried to take him round the room in triumphal progress; but Toad, in a mild way, was rather snubby to him, remarking gently, as he disengaged himself, 'Badger's was the mastermind; the Mole and the Water Rat bore the brunt of the fighting; I merely served in the ranks and did little or nothing

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58. True, their sense of cleverness and security

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59. I underestimated the woman, and I guess I overestimated my own cleverness

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60. Mattie was impressed at the cleverness of their scheme and could barely suppress a grin

61. Tyndall of his complacent satisfaction in the cleverness of his experiments, and for his lack of philosophic insight

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62. You have all the cleverness which makes a

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63. You stand in the way not merely of an individual, but of a mighty organization, the full extent of which you, with all your cleverness, have been unable to realize

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64. Fischer’s wealth and cleverness and loyal friends and courage, she and I might be hopelessly outmatched by the cult

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65. It wasn’t fair that a reprobate like Rhett Butler should have so much and she, who carried so heavy a load, should have wouldn’t swell his conceit by complimenting him on his cleverness

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66. Dorothea so childlike, and, according to some judges, so stupid, with all her reputed cleverness; as, for example, in the present case of throwing herself, metaphorically speaking, at Mr

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67. There was too much cleverness in her apology: she was laughing both at her uncle and himself

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68. Casaubon's learning as mere accomplishment; for though opinion in the neighborhood of Freshitt and Tipton had pronounced her clever, that epithet would not have described her to circles in whose more precise vocabulary cleverness implies mere aptitude for knowing and doing, apart from character

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69. Solomon says there's great talk of his cleverness

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70. Not that cleverness has anything to do with it

71. Divide your cleverness by ten, and the quotient—dear me!—is able to take a degree

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72. The evidence of his cleverness was of the higher intuitive order, lying in his lady-patients' immovable conviction, and was unassailable by any objection except that their intuitions were opposed by others equally strong; each lady who saw medical truth in Wrench and "the strengthening treatment" regarding Toller and "the loweringsystem" as medical perdition

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73. The Doctor was more than suspected of having no religion, but somehow Middlemarch tolerated this deficiency in him as if he had been a Lord Chancellor; indeed it is probable that his professional weight was the more believed in, the world-old association of cleverness with the evil principle being still potent in the minds even of lady-patients who had the strictest ideas of frilling and sentiment

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74. Lemon's favorite pupil, who by general consent (Fred's excepted) was a rare compound of beauty, cleverness, and amiability

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75. He may not be a phoenix of cleverness in your sense; his profession is different; but it would be all the better for you to talk a little on his subjects

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76. What she liked to do was to her the right thing, and all her cleverness was directed to getting the means of doing it

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77. cleverness as precisely of the receptive kind which became a woman

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78. He was now beginning to find out what that cleverness was—what was the shape into which it had run as into a close network aloof and independent

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79. But as to listening to what one lawyer says without asking another—I wonder at a man o' your cleverness, Mr

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80. What I remember is that I was content not, for the time, to open the question, and that contentment must have sprung from the sense of his perpetually striking show of cleverness

81. But she was a magnificent monument to the blessing of a want of imagination, and if she could see in our little charges nothing but their beauty and amiability, their happiness and cleverness, she had no direct communication with the sources of my trouble

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82. with all his cleverness to help him, so long as I should continue to defer to the old tradition of the criminality of those caretakers of the young who minister to superstitions and fears

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83. This was an enterprise whose success might have seemed problematical to most men of the world, in spite of the cleverness with which such men credit a fashionable woman; in fact, Madame d'Aubrion herself, when she looked at her daughter, almost despaired of getting rid of her to any one, even to a man craving connection with nobility

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84. God, who sees all and never strikes amiss, punished him, no doubt, for his sordid calculations and the legal cleverness with which, accurante Cruchot, he had drawn up his marriage contract, in which husband and wife gave to each other, "in case they should have no children, their entire property of every kind, landed or otherwise, without exception or reservation, dispensing even with the formality of an inventory; provided that said omission of said inventory shall not injure their heirs and assigns, it being understood that this deed of gift is, etc

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85. The wizard, to tell the truth, never minded explaining his cleverness more than once, so now he had told Bilbo that both he and Elrond had been well aware of the presence of evil goblins in that part of the mountains

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86. He had been feeling rather pleased with the cleverness of his conversation with Smaug, but his mistake at the end shook him into better sense

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87. Incredulous as I was at Susannah’s Cleverness in keeping this Bauble in readiness ’gainst, as ’twere, a rainy Day, I could scarce say a Word

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88. “Yeah, that’s cool, Baby,” I said and we all laughed at her cleverness and sense of fun

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