She had the opportunity that few clever women can resist, of showing her superiority in argument over a man.

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.

" While Sakharov strongly disagreed with Teller over nuclear testing in the atmosphere and Strategic Defense Initiative, he believed that American academics had been unfair to Teller ’ s resolve to get the H-bomb for the United States since " all steps by the Americans of a temporary or permanent rejection of developing thermonuclear weapons would have been seen either as a clever feint, or as the manifestation of stupidity.

* " Her stories and novels are humanistic, while her deep concern for male-female ( even human-alien ) harmony ran counter to the developing segregate-the-sexes drive amongst feminist writers ; What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some lyric poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst for final polish.

It supposedly had a Rube Goldberg machine reputation, and was " temperamental, subject to frequent breakdowns, and devilishly difficult to repair — but oh, so clever!

Unable to take the city by force of arms, Tarquin had recourse to a clever stratagem.

Angus MacIntyre of the University of London stated about Cohen: " He was dauntingly clever, and one would have had to be naive or exceptionally altruistic to put one's " hardest problem " to the Paul I knew in the ' 60s.

Ogden was a good choice for the first president, but his railroad experience was most likely not the primary reason he was chosen ; Ogden was a clever man who had many political connections.

She was clever and had her husband so much in her power, that he did nothing without her advice.

Erle Stanley Gardner " had spent more than twenty years practicing law in California, and the knowledge he gained was put to good use in the Perry Mason stories, which hinge on points of law, forensic medicine or science as clever as a watch mechanism ... and also the total lack of characterization ".

If he had refused, he could have been punished, but he was clever enough not to refuse.

He's Fenster, and Our Man Higgins ) that was " stretching further than ever for their situations "; after all the season's new shows had premiered — a season " responding to Minow's exhortations "— the magazine called the series " silly and unpretentious, corny and clever, now and then quite funny.

It was a solid and clever plan but, after their commanders had been taken prisoners, the Greeks managed to force their way to the Black Sea.

Briseis was said to have had blonde hair, blue eyes, and fair skin and she was considered to be very beautiful and clever.

All five books had an " Official Sniglets Entry Blank ," beginning, " Dear Rich: Here's my sniglet, which is every bit as clever as any in this dictionary.

Matt was clever and wily and had a reputation for getting into trouble.

John Hughes said that he had Broderick in mind when he wrote the screenplay, saying Broderick was the only actor he could think of who could pull the role off, calling him clever, smart, and charming.

She has a daughter, Judi Hanson ( Moira Brooker ), who had married twice ( to " Ken ", who had " sad eyes ", and " Edward ", who was " very clever "), with both marriages ending in divorce.

) 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.

Consequently, American artists had to search deeper for dramatic styles that would distance art from the well-designed and clever commercial materials.

Bow felt Alton had misused her trust ; " She wanted to keep a hold on me so she made me think I wasn't getting over and that nothing but her clever management kept me going ".

Cool Cat, Merlin the Magic Mouse, Norman Normal and Chimp and Zee were praised as being highly creative and having extremely clever writing and design that compensated for the extremely low budgets the crew had to work with by this time.

The title " Rules of Acquisition " was chosen as a clever marketing ploy ( since the rules are merely guidelines ) and Gint numbered his first rule one hundred sixty-two in order to create a demand for the other one hundred sixty-one Rules that had not yet been created.

He also bought a huge square of pegboard for hanging up his tools, and lumber for his workbench, sandpaper and glue and assorted nails, levels and T squares and plumb lines and several gadgets that he had no idea how to use or what they were for.

Flash Gordon was the first outright science fiction serial, although earlier serials had contained science fiction elements such as gadgets.

The magazine featured a regular column by film-critic Roger Ebert and others and had many reviews of various kinds of webpages and tech gadgets.

Interestingly, the same device that PC World called " one of the 50 greatest gadgets of the last 50 years " had a very short lifespan, from only about 1989-1994.

While nobody had anything against Penny's use of her gadgets in the original series, the people in this show nitpick Penny for being interested in computers ( in " One Too Many Gadgets ," a flight attendant takes away Penny's crime laptop, and in " Weekend At The Beach ," Penny's friend Bridget criticizes Penny for " playing with computer games " when she was actually using her communication watch ).

To mention a few of them, users now had access to keyboard shortcuts for window gadgets, possibility to hide applications, and optional hiding of the menu bar.

The book's author explained in a documentary on the DVD that rather than basing the book on anything specific, he was unhappy with the spy movie genre, sensing that it had become more about gadgets, violence and sex than either realism or trickery, and wrote Hopscotch to be a spy novel without the sex, guns and gadgets.

He also told them that the gadgets just had to function as long as the cameras were recording.

Many an Emperor told Western ambassadors that he was not interested in the gadgets and toys that the West had to offer.

An orphan who, despite his ambition, looks upon Zeroman as the father figure he never had, Gary is a boy millionaire who provides the financial backing for the team as well as a host of gadgets and other advanced technology that never seems to work properly.

The stories had weird menaces, fistfights, wild vehicles and gadgets, spectacular terrain, daring escapes, and a sense of humor.

By the early 1900s the Dysarts had installed electricity and central heating at the house along with other modern gadgets including, in the Duchess's basement bathroom, a bath with jets and wave machine!

The reviewer for The New York Times noted the reduced numbers of gadgets employed in the book, when compared with the films, that they felt had " overshadowed the personality of the secret agent "; overall the reviewer felt that " Mr. Amis has now given Bond back to the readers.

In traditional Intuition based UI coding programmer had to calculate placement of gadgets relative to font and border sizes.

Though he had little formal training in electronics, he made synthesizers and modulators out of any gadgets and surplus parts he could find, including guitar effects pedals and battery-operated transistor radios.

In the subterranean passages beneath a ruined castle Judex had a base outfitted with technological gadgets.

Shunning the desk job that had kept him from combat, Spade equipped himself with guns and gadgets of his own invention and fought the Nazi menace as Black Jack.

( Ken Holt had a crossover cameo in The Flying Stingaree, and Rick lent some of his gadgets to Ken in one of the books in that series, by agreement of the respective authors.

As a review from PopMatters, he had said along with " Frozen ", " Drowned World / Substitute for Love ", " Ray of Light " and " Beautiful Stranger " that they were " testament to Orbit's ability to use gadgets and electronic wizardry not to alienate listeners, but to draw them in.

Using various gadgets to defend himself and Pepper, Stark had Whirlwind chase him down to a Stark International Lab.

She Spies had very strong comic and chick flick elements which in many instances proved even more relevant to the storytelling than the spy-related situations and gadgets themselves.