Eksempler på cleverness

• If disasters occur it is not because of stupidity but usually because of over-cleverness.

• Was it that they wished to exhibit their cleverness?

• With their greater turnover and their experience and cleverness, the shops have solved the problem.

• One of the general troubles of mankind is that man's technical cleverness has outstripped his wisdom.

• There is no cleverness about it at all.

• I acknowledge quite readily that the window-dressing has been done with some cleverness.

• He has done that with enormous cleverness and without losing his balance.

• Having that opinion of his cleverness and his luck, we can understand the poisoner thinking it a risk he can afford to run.

• He claimed merit for his cleverness in arriving at that narrow, precarious balance, and for keeping it steady.

• I suppose nobody believes that it needs only a little cleverness or a little bonhomie to put the whole thing right.

• The position he holds cannot be imagined to be the primary result of his own work, experiment and cleverness.

• We must avoid the over-cleverness which is so closely akin to stupidity.

• Anyone who walks the hospital wards knows quite well that the atmosphere of the hospital is as important as the cleverness of the doctor.

• They ought to ask themselves whether they are not training the rising generation in mere cleverness rather than in developing real character.

• We have ability, cleverness and talent, which is not a matter of birth, in the young as well as in the old.