Both works of this period exemplify de Salvo's clever and transformative response to the everyday.

Maybe Bogie could have come up with a clever response to that.

That I had no clever response was fortunately hid by a knock at the door.

At first, Selman answered the messages individually, trying to come up with clever responses for each one.

She had a talent, the Pack Rat observed, for turning even the most clever response back upon itself so that it served her own purpose.

Even Iskander seemed unable to come up with a clever response to that.

So Mr. Florio, the former governor, came up with a clever response.

As a result of this clever response, King John allows the bishop to live.

She tried to think of some clever response, but her mind froze up.

He insisted his talking is retaliatory, and resisted efforts to rate his best lines or the most clever responses.