Word: cleverly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this situation surprising. Majorities have proved themselves poor rulers; easily controlled by those clever enough, and wealthy enough to pay the advertising rates for propaganda; incapable of choosing able leaders, or making sound decisions on any but the broadest questions of policy. When the Machiavellian doctrines of the obscurantist replace the high ideals of democracy, small wonder that college undergraduates lose interest. International peace is almost the only field of thought remaining where ideals have any standing. If the Princeton conference represents an authentic manifestation of student interest in the world court, it is at least one encouraging symptom promising...
Baldwin, captain of last year's red-shirts, has also shown up well. He is developing into a clever forward, and the factor of his size is likely to be negligible...
...spite of all the better things we have said about "That Royle Girl," it really isn't bad entertainment. Mr. Griffith is doing stunts for his audience, and if the story is jerky, and the action too rapid at times, there is still the beautiful and clever Miss Dempster, to make up for other failings. As we have intimated above, she would be a great actress if she stopped trying to be cute...
...indeed, those writers who are so muddled by the mechanical multiplicity and confusion of existence as to be blind to the simple which is beneath all the confusion will never, can never expect to keep live in literature. The clever, and this is a generation of the clever, are too engrossed with surface delights to sense the bitterness or beauty of the depots. America is apparently devoid of the comic spirit. She must buffoon or burrow herself into the earth of realism. And buffoonery is not lasting. Mr. Sherman has illumined that fact many times with the light of common...
...contemporary society in living in another age of Pope. The ascendancy of the light, smart novel as exemplified by Arlen, van Vechten, Huxley and their school, the Restoration atmosphere of the stage, the cynicism of the columnists--all point, they think, to "the hollowness of the times, a Godlessly clever...