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Sentences starting with cleverness

Cleverness as the modern substitute for feminine virtue did not appeal to her, but she let it pass. [9]

Sentences ending with cleverness

I could tell you such tales of its cleverness! [10]
Tennyson is a man of talent, who happened to strike a lucky vein, which he has worked with cleverness. [4]
She had not expected this cleverness. [11]
This man, though an exile, was liberally supplied with money by his brother, kept the most brilliant establishment in Naukratis, and was as famous for his extravagant hospitality as for his strength and cleverness. [10]

Sentences containing cleverness two or more times

What the general was saying was even more clever and to the point, but it was evident that Kutuzov despised knowledge and cleverness, and knew of something else that would decide the matter--something independent of cleverness and knowledge. [2]

More example sentences with the word cleverness in them

We still punish those who gain property by violence; those who get it by smartness and cleverness, we try to imitate, and sometimes we reward them with public office. [4]
His name was Theocritus, and although he was distinguished by great personal beauty and exceptional cleverness, his unbridled greed had made him hated, and he had proved equally incompetent as a statesman and a general. [10]
I marvelled at the pith and depth of his observations; for though I agreed not with him once in ten times, I loved his great reflective cleverness and his fine penetration--singular gifts in a man of action. [11]
But oh, believe that, though I am full of wonder at his cleverness, I can not bear him very near me. [11]
It was evident that Kutuzov despised cleverness and learning and even the patriotic feeling shown by Denisov, but despised them not because of his own intellect, feelings, or knowledge--he did not try to display any of these--but because of something else. [2]
What more natural than, with her cleverness, she had hit upon this means of terminating the author's troubles by working upon my fears? [9]
He had no sense of responsibility; his mind loved talent, skill, and cleverness, and though it was scathing of all usual ethics, for the crude, honest life of the poor it had sympathy. [11]
It gave a lead to a latent feeling among members of the ministerial party, of distrust, and of suspicion that they were the dupes of a mind of abnormal cleverness which, at bottom, despised them. [11]
Much of it is admirable in workmanship, and exhibits a cleverness in details and a subtlety in the observation of traits which many great novels lack. [4]
His shrewdness, his insight, his judgment, his knowledge, his enterprise, and his formidable cleverness in applying these forces were frankly confessed, and most competently cursed. [5]
Does it consist in astonishing the invited, in overwhelming him with a sense of your own wealth, or felicity, or family, or cleverness even; in trying to absorb him in your concerns, your successes, your possessions, in simply what interests you? [4]
I must confess I never should have suspected it in Peters, and it's most interesting what you say about his cleverness in conversation. [9]
And so, as I came trotting out of that cul de sac, full of satisfaction with my own cleverness, he turned the corner and I walked right into his handcuffs. [5]
Her cleverness forsook her when she wrote that letter. [11]
He laughed, for he was pleased at his own cleverness, and he also wished to remain good-tempered. [11]
In a sense he had saved himself by his cleverness, but if Jean Jacques had not been just the man he was, he could not have saved himself. [11]
Those two either hate each other lovingly, or love hatefully, I know not which, they are so biting, yet so friendly to each other's cleverness, though their style of word-play is so different: Monsieur Doltaire's like a bodkin-point, Captain Moray's like a musket-stock a-clubbing. [11]
And if I hadn't given you credit for some cleverness, I shouldn't have wanted you here. [9]
Perhaps by his great bulk, his cleverness, his brains, his way of doing things. [11]
She had a great belief in her daughter and admired her cleverness, and she was always ready to be ruled by her; it was like being "bossed" by the man she had lost. [11]
Richard was very fond of Frank, admiring him immensely for his buxom strength and cleverness, and not a little, too, for that very rashness which had brought him such havoc at last. [11]
Anatole was sincerely fond of Dolokhov for his cleverness and audacity. [2]
But you would deny her the opportunity to make something of her cleverness because in your opinion; she has broken the Seventh Commandment. [9]
You had great cleverness, gifts that startled and delighted; but yet I felt always, and that feeling grew and grew, that there was nothing in you wholly honest, that by artifice you had frittered away what once may have been good in you. [11]
The brute is clever; wisdom is the cleverness of the noble-minded. [10]
She was still a very handsome woman, whose original cleverness had been cultivated by a considerable experience of social life in this country as well as in London and Paris. [4]

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