Cunningham is known for his frantic, pounding rhythms on such songs as " Knife Party " and clever usage of tempo (" Mein "), while at the same time refusing to indulge in the double bass drum setup of many metal traditionalists.

but if you know The Real Thing, you know that what you are hearing is only a clever imitation.

His creative development of melodic designs of Slavic dance tunes and love songs is captivating: witty, clever, adroit, and subtle.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

a clever naturalistic touch is Varlaam's labored reading of the warrant.

But we need not mind too much, because Mr. Nagrin has expressed it through movement that is diverting and clever almost all the way.

To begin with, Scapin is a trickster in the old tradition of the clever servant who plots the strategy of courtship for his master.

Poirot has dark hair, which he dyes later in life ( though many of his screen incarnations are portrayed as bald or balding ), and green eyes that are repeatedly described as shining " like a cat's " when he is struck by a clever idea.

He is well known as the lover of Aphrodite, the goddess of love who was married to Hephaestus, god of craftsmanship, but the most famous story involving the couple shows them exposed to ridicule through the wronged husband's clever device.

as being " too vague ; some passages are too clever for their own good, and their meaning is not clear.

While this is intended as a clever con trick, the machine, surprisingly, works, sending Blackadder and Baldrick back to the time of the dinosaurs, where they manage to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs, through the use of Baldrick's best, worst and only pair of underpants as a weapon against a hungry T. Rex.

A Dutch book is made when a clever gambler places a set of bets that guarantee a profit, no matter what the outcome is of the bets.

In spite of these first impressions, the game has generally received positive reviews: Lafayette, for example, goes on to say that it is " really hard to fault GURPS Bunnies & Burrows ", as it is educational, realistic, whimsical and clever, while the game has also been described as a " work of genius ".

He is clever and has much lower status than the whiteface.

The term is also commonly used as a pejorative to criticize the use of clever but unsound reasoning ( alleging implicitly the inconsistent — or outright specious — misapplication of rule to instance ), especially in relation to moral questions ( see sophistry ).

Mandinga can be translated into magic, or spell, but in capoeira a mandinguero is a clever fighter, able to trick the opponent.

As ruthless and cruel as he is intelligent and cunning, the Baron's greatest skill is his talent for the subtle and clever manipulation of others through their weaknesses or his understanding of human nature.

According to the American Kennel Club ’ s breed standards, " the dachshund is clever, lively and courageous to the point of rashness, persevering in above and below ground work, with all the senses well-developed.

Using some clever tricks, the merge operation can be done in time O ( n ), so the total running time is O ( n log n ).

In a similar vein, a " hack " may refer to a math hack, that is, a clever solution to a mathematical problem.

One range of office furniture is named EFFEKTIV ( meaning: efficient, effective ), SKÄRPT ( meaning: sharp or clever ) is a line of kitchen knives.

Proponents of the Post Modern style attacked the Modernism with clever statements such as " less is a bore " and with captivating images such as Crown Hall sinking in Lake Michigan.

all the words of its clever lyrics came through with perfect clarity.

Historians committed to a social science approach, however, have criticized the narrowness of narrative and its preference for anecdote over analysis, and its use of clever examples rather than statistically verified empirical regularities.

Before developing this dualistic persona of the two types of clever and silly servant, Zanni was a character in its own right.

He determines that it must be so unless the robot is clever enough to rationalize that its actions are for humankind's long-term good.

Each story has its clever hero, its " fairy godmother ", and obstacles and hindrances to the hero's rise.

It was also praised for its clever and at times philosophical writing, and for being a family-friendly show.

Though differing with Whistler on several points, including his insistence that poetry was a higher form of art than painting, Oscar Wilde was generous in his praise and hailed the lecture a masterpiece: " not merely for its clever satire and amusing jests … but for the pure and perfect beauty of many of its passages.

The clever way the program organized its geometric data pioneered the use of " objects " and " instances " in computing and pointed forward to object oriented programming.

Although he cited the pixelated character sprites and lack of voice acting as low points, Ardai summarized Fate of Atlantis as an " exuberant, funny, well-crafted and clever game " that bettered its predecessor, The Last Crusade.

" The gaming magazine Nintendo Power praised the game for being " very enjoyable while it lasts, with its clever puzzles and innovative game play.

) and those of the olive-skinned Semitic race ( another subrace of the Caucasian race ) in the middle ranks ( it was because the Jews, being Semites, were clever that they were so dangerous — they had their own plan for Jewish world domination, a conspiracy that had to be opposed by all thoughtful Aryans, declared the Nazis ); and those of the yellow Mongoloid race ( including its offshoots the brown Malayan race and the red American Indian race ), the Dravidian race, the Hamitic race ( regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race ), and mixed-race people such as Eurasians, the bronze Mestizos, Mulattos, Afro-Asians, and Zambos in the lower middle ranks.

The London Express claimed that this realism is what makes the book appealing: “ It is a cruel, merciless story, intensely clever in its realism, and one that will remain impressed in the memory of the reader for many a long day ”.

Nicholas Meyer has deftly juxtaposed Victorian England and contemporary America in a clever story, irresistible due to the competence of its cast.

A self-aware satire of the slasher genre, whereby the characters did not make all the usual " mistakes " ( i. e. saying " I'll be right back "), critics lauded Scream for its clever storyline and three-dimensional characters, with more of a focus on suspense than gore.

Still, it seems surprisingly clever and witty " In a DVD review of the first season, David B. Grelck gave the episode a rating of ½ / 5 and calls it " the first season at its worst " and continues that is was " notable for introducing Mr. Burns and ( a strangely African-American ) Smithers, but otherwise boring and preachy.

" One On One ," with its clever mixed-metaphorical references to romance and basketball, was used in NBA commercials of the period.

The Lark, in particular, was based on existing parts to the degree that it even utilized the central body section of the company's 1953 – 58 cars, but was a clever enough design to be popular in its first year, selling over 130, 000 units and delivering a $ 28. 6 million profit to the automaker.

Austin writes that he was both delighted and disturbed by the Alternative 3 controversy, and adds that the reasons " a clever hoax, openly admitted to be such by its creators, should continue to exercise the fascination it so obviously does the best part of a generation after its first appearance is beyond my feeble powers of analysis and explanation.

He had previously cheered them up with memorable and clever quotes but his only reply this time was, " From this place, and from this day forth begins a new era in the history of the world, and you can all say that you were present at its birth.

*" Unix was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things.

However, some poets, for example Ogden Nash, make a virtue of writing what appears to be doggerel but is actually clever and entertaining despite its apparent technical faults.