A flair for overruling common sense with clever arguments and rationalizations is, after all, what makes a critic a critic.

You keep thinking up clever arguments against us!

She'd been working on some clever argument that might set the guy to thinking; there were cases where Emissary Devices had changed their principal's decision.

It has been demonstrated many times and all the clever Skeptical arguments can't legislate the truth out of existence.

Yes, Tannen, I'm well aware of the angles of what you no doubt believe to be a terribly clever argument.

No evasive maneuvers or counterattacks or even clever arguments.

"What clever argument will you conjure up now, wizard?"

I had read just enough philosophy and history to find support for my skepticism-a fact here, a scientific theory there, a pithy quote, a clever argument.

While it's a clever argument, it just doesn't stand up to analysis.

How could he think, even by the most clever argument, that a robot could be fellow to a man?