O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.

It has been described by Henry Sutton of the Daily Mirror as " My top tip for 2012's runaway success, with a very clever twist on the age old story of boy meets girl.

He then reunited with director James Mangold in 2003 alongside John Cusack and Alfred Molina in the dark horror-thriller Identity, remembered for its very unique and clever twist.

There is a widely-circulated theory in the music community that the band name Youth Group is a clever twist on the name of the Scottish indie rock band Teenage Fanclub, whom vocalist Toby Martin has cited as a major musical influence during his childhood.

Fierstein however felt that " the script was a lot of very clever gay jokes, and there just wasn't that Simpsons twist " and turned the role down.

Fierstein however felt that " the script was a lot of very clever gay jokes, and there just wasn't that Simpsons twist " and turned the role down.

" While this departs noticeably from the standard cycle, the twist is slightly more clever, and takes a jab at the English ( a popular ploy in some Irish songs ).

The legend that the c. clock was invented by a clever Black Forest mechanic in 1730 ( Franz Anton Ketterer ) keeps being told over and over again.

Anansi's enemies are based on an ancient legend ; the story, as told by Anansi, was that a clever Spider wanted to be able to tell stories, the " Sky Spirit " king of all the lands, agreed to give the spider what he wanted if he captured three trouble-makers: Onini the Python, Osebo the Leopard, and the Mmoboro Hornet.

Queen Mary College was founded in the mid Victorian era when growing awareness of conditions in London's East End led to drives to provide facilities for local inhabitants, popularised in the 1882 novel All Sorts of Conditions of Men – An Impossible Story by Walter Besant, which told of how a rich and clever couple from Mayfair went to the East End to build a " Palace of Delight, with concert halls, reading rooms, picture galleries, art and designing schools.

One obituary notes that a " clever manager " told Tanguay early in her career that money made money, and she never forgot the lesson, buying huge ads at her own expense, and on one occasion allegedly spending twice her salary on publicity.

It was set in eighteenth-century Britain and told the story of Fenton Babblewick, a well-meaning but sometimes confused squire played by Nicholas Le Prevost, and his clever Scottish servant Barney, played by David Antrobus.

The stylish, clever lady stops short of being a scorcher, but if women's races were to be organised, the participants would have to run to their limit, or else make a mockery of racing.

The work's two movements, one melodically sentimental, the other brightly capricious, are clever enough in a Ravel-like style, but they rehash a wornout idiom.

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.

Instead they reduced the number of chips required via clever design.

" And I said, and I just happened to know to see a few Seinfelds and I knew these guys were really tops ; they were really, really clever guys, and I liked the show.

For example, to cite Cynthia Freeland's catalogue: " Aristotle says that the courage of a man lies in commanding, a woman's lies in obeying ; that " matter yearns for form, as the female for the male and the ugly for the beautiful ;" that women have fewer teeth than men ; that a female is an incomplete male or " as it were, a deformity ": which contributes only matter and not form to the generation of offspring ; that in general " a woman is perhaps an inferior being "; that female characters in a tragedy will be inappropriate if they are too brave or too clever "( Freeland 1994: 145-46 )

Led militarily by a clever new general Demosthenes ( not to be confused with the later Athenian orator Demosthenes ), the Athenians managed some successes as they continued their naval raids on the Peloponnese.

" " Politicians and lobbyists at the core of this clever enterprise figured out how to pull it off in an organized, camouflaged way -- covering their tracks while they put one over on an unsuspecting public.

Of course they can always succeed by having Alice send her whole n-bit string to Bob, who then computes the function, but the idea here is to find clever ways of calculating f with fewer than n bits of communication.

As they solemnly leave the mountains, they are ambushed by the Huns, but the clever use of a rocket by Mulan creates an avalanche which buries most of the Huns.

Next, they go to Solaria, where they find that the Solarians — who have survived the Spacer-Settler conflicts by clever retreat detailed in Asimov's novel Robots and Empire — have engineered themselves into self-reproducing hermaphrodite beings, who have remained generally intolerant of human physical presence or contact.

Abraham then, in a clever taunt, asked the people as to why they do not ask the largest of the idols, which, they believed, could indeed hear and speak.

Packaged breakfast cereals were considerably more convenient and combined with clever marketing, they caught on.

But again, this clever marketing strategy does not tell casual browsers what they are really in for when they buy a particular book.

) 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.

Mirkin considered Three's Company to have " a classic French farce structure ," as " the characters were so stupid they could never say anything clever.

In a clever move by the bursar to fill the new buildings as they were completed, a significant number of noble Roman Catholic students were invited to enroll and take classes at the enlarged college ; however, they were not allowed to matriculate.

Abraham then, in a clever taunt, asked the people as to why they don't ask the largest of the idols, which, they believed, could indeed hear and speak.

Dr Johnson drew inspiration from The Present State of Music in France and Italy ( 1771 ), according to later writers: " Dr. Burney published an account of his tour ... which was extremely well received, and deemed by the best judges so good a model for travellers who were inclined to give a description of what they had seen or observed, that Dr. Johnson professedly imitated it in his own Tour of the Hebrides, saying, ' I had that clever dog Burney's Musical Tour in my eye.

" 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.

Burn Variation Main Line ( C11 ) · 1 – 0 Judit's opponent falls for a clever trap, expecting her to play 14. Bxa8 and he would reply with 14 ... g4 !, but she springs 14. g4!

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.

Considered a clever move by Louis at the time, it would later prove yet another step towards Angevin power.

He says that if he left it to the courts to punish the perpetrator, some clever lawyer would surely achieve an acquittal and the murderer would get away with his crime.

This was a clever move, for the supremacy of the monastery of Armagh would last only so long as Brian remained the High King.

They would praise as clever, whoever could best guess which shadow would come next, as someone who understood the nature of the world, and the whole of their society would depend on the shadows on the wall.

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

His favorite victim is Ren, But at times, would seek to ruin Louis as well, but finds that Louis is just as clever as Ren.

This engine employed a clever cylinder-head design in which the exhaust ports are located where the intake ports would normally be ( on top of the engine, pointing upwards ).

They then get into an argument about who is cuter, ( by comparing themselves with Mary and Rhoda ) and who would be clever enough to think of as a better story of inventing of Post-it notes in the reunion, and their friendship dissolves.

This is actually something of a disadvantage for Peter, as Susie is considerably more clever and cunning than some of the other members, especially Barbara and Pam, and would potentially be a more valuable member.

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

But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process!

He helped the University of Rochester launch the station and thought the " WHAM " name would prove to be a clever marketing tool.

When it was decided that the show would air on television, Michael Palin was offered the job of chairman with Fry and Davies as captains of " clever " and " stupid " teams respectively.

These two novels set the framework for many later books: following step by step both the fiendishly clever, competent and ruthless perpetrator in carrying out his design and the equally clever and competent hunter, hot on his heels throughout the book, but who would catch up with him only at the very end.

During the collection of the passports, one clever and brave stewardess, Neerja Bhanot, the senior flight purser, had thought that the American passports would be the ones they would single out and she decided to hide some under a seat with the rest dumped down a trash chute.

The Ellimist did not admit this to be true but said that if it was, it would have been " very clever " of him.

The Pandavas were initially not agreeable to such a ploy, as by bringing such a gender to the battleground they would disgrace themselves, but Krishna suggested a clever alternative.