It is merely clever in the Paris of these times.
What a wise man can do, that can't done by someone who's merely clever, is make a right judgment in an unprecedented situation.
A merely clever man could never have thought of it - or would have dismissed it instantly as absurd.
Beginning by thinking him merely clever, she ends up "so moved by his goodness that her eyes watered."
He packed surprises into his three-minute masterpieces, but they never became merely clever, much less academic.
Other combinations are merely clever, a matter of trivial coincidence.
His insistence on these effects sometimes turned smart into merely clever, inventive into predictable.
For all their intelligence, Ms. Holcomb's songs are never merely clever.
His hypotheses and hunches weren't merely clever and imaginative; they were often right.
The cricket voice had been merely a clever disguise.
