Word: clever
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...rotten Sheds, allways tumbling or takeing Fire, with winding crooked passages, lakes of Mire and rills of stinking Mud, as befits the smokey grove of Moloch." In the eerie interplay between the earlier age and our own, Ackroyd has fashioned a fictional architecture that is vivid, provocative and as clever as, well, the devil...
...comprehensive study of people who have been prosecuted under computer-crime laws, suggest that although teenagers like the members of Milwaukee's widely heralded "414" gang are a real annoyance, the most serious losses are caused by electronic miscreants who are a good deal older and not half so clever. "Generally, these are unsophisticated crimes," says the center's director, Jay BloomBecker. "The myth that computer crime is this romantic activity done by geniuses and involving millions of dollars is just that--a myth...
...noted for creative cuisine, the fast-food industry is at least imaginative in its advertising. First came Wendy's popular "Where's the beef?" commercials, and then last November Burger King launched a clever "Where's Herb?" campaign. Herb was allegedly "the one man who has never tasted a Burger King burger." In one commercial the camera pans across crowded beaches and escalators in search of Herb...
...have guided Cornish through his life in an effort to make him great. So when Cornish's nephew calls upon them in jest, they appear (not to the nephew of course, only to the reader) to tell the tale. Why does Davies do this? Well, it's kind of clever and amusing at first. And the use of these two characters could be forgiven if they weren't used in such an amateurish way. Throughout the novel they interrupt every once in a while to explain the most recent occurrence in the life of Francis Cornish. "If you wish...
...take Maria. Maria is smart, clever, volatile, funny, mischievous, a real piece of work. She would have us believe that she does not realize that she loves her father in spite of his awful behavior, but she does realize that. She does not need to be taught to love him, so in that she is playing a sort of game by pretending her love is a secret we all must disclose. But Maria does need to learn to live at peace with the world, because in temperament she is very much like her father. That's her real problem...