Cleverer in a sentence

As someone cleverer and funnier than me said of the England men’s football team: if a bloke’s wife left him in 1966 but he insisted every four years that she was coming home, you would think he was mad.

Though the movies saw him tempted by the Ring, determined for a time to bring it back to his father just as Boromir had hoped, the books saw a far cleverer character.

Dr Shaw said: “This is very much an individualised therapy and it’s far cleverer in some senses than a vaccine.

It pokes fun at generic horror tropes and stereotypical characters with a cleverer than expected script.

When he wrote, in January, that he wanted to hire “misfits and weirdos” and people much cleverer than him, to make himself “more or less redundant by the end of the year”, this was exactly, exactly what he had in mind.

I looked at the triangle of the author, the detective and the sidekick — the author is on the hill and sees everything, the detective is cleverer than the sidekick, who talks to the audience.

Are students cleverer than ever or are the examiners just more generous when it comes to giving final grades?

Doubling down on its screen-first design, these new smartphones promise formidable power and cleverer photography in a beautifully designed package.

It was cleverer to have marked down the Flying Stars and the very day of Fischer’s coming; but there’s no cleverness, only mere genius, in what followed.

Psychologists recommend this simple trick: wait five seconds before answering – your answer might not be any cleverer, but it comes across as weightier.

This should be obvious to all parties selling the automated process, but the problem is not really surmountable, so they try to pretend it doesn't exist, or that the answer is cleverer automation - hence the need to sell AI.

About two brothers in South-East London, the series was in many ways a forerunner to Only Fools And Horses, only Jason was in the more dopey 'Rodders' role with Peter Armitage playing the cleverer of the two.