Word: clever
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...strangest stories Fitzsimmons shares was of an applicant who wrote his essay with his foot. "He had his friend take pictures," Fitzsimmons says. The essay closed with the line, "I hope to leave a footprint in the sands of time." Really clever, eh? Another student, trying to get noticed, sent in a box of corrected papers--all of them since kindergarten actually. Students have tried everything-pictures of sword collections, diaries, letters of recommendation from the president, pictures with famous people, and all sorts of poems and anagrams...
...course, the machine cannot "get," say, a clever turn of phrase or an unusual analogy."If I'm unique, I might not fall under the scoring rubric," concedes Frederic McHale, a vice president at the Graduate Management Admission Council, which owns the GMAT. On the other hand, E-Rater is mercilessly objective and never tires halfway through a stack of essays. The upshot: in pretrial tests, E-Rater and a human reader were just as likely to agree as were two readers. "It's not intended to judge a person's creativity," says Darrell Laham, co-developer of the Intelligent...
...that is not the correct interpretation. Ancient interpreters (otherwise known as baby boomers) figured that "Love Me Do" meant "please love me," only the word "do" was used because it rhymes with "true" in the line "You know I'll be true." Ah, those Liverpudlians were so clever...
...Lampoon and Demon, Satire V has officially joined the select group of unread, unfunny self-proclaimed "humor" magazines guaranteed to leave a bad taste in the collective mouth of the Harvard populace. This freshman posse considers themselves real smarties by reversing the Harvard motto "Veritas." Backwards word, real clever...
...just for pizza anymore, but still pizza remains a good place to start in the search for Valentine ideas. Tommy's, that late-night mainstay, will bake heart-shaped pizzas on request. With a delivery time of 45 minutes or less, this cheap yet tasty option is a clever last-minute idea. What better way to say "I love you" than with pepperoni...