Which means that the deal may turn out to be too clever by half.
They are easy to spot (look for people too clever for their job titles).
Some think it is vacuous nonsense, others think it is too clever, and a minority find the line rather deep.
Gadhafi, who took power in a military coup, was too clever to allow a well-organized army that might do the same to him.
But he dislikes plans and plantings that, he says, "are too clever or too obvious" elements that call attention to a style, rather than a place.
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Maybe when you are not too clever yourself, you assume that the folks on the other end of the negotiating table are also not so intelligent.
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And you've really savaged Mitt Romney for changing his mind, and I'm wondering if you don't run some risk of looking kind of too clever by half here.
At times, Quora is too clever for its own good.
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"There's much new music which doesn't really sell mainly because there isn't any identifiable tune and is maybe a little bit too clever, " says Bill Holland, who is head of classics at Universal Records.
The too clever fiscal compromises, the friction between Orszag and Summers, and the earnest discussions about behavioral economics were all part of a fairly self-contained process, one far less infected by politics than what comes next.
And for Merck, there is also a point of pride: whether its effort to get a combination of laropiprant and niacin through the Food and Drug Administration was ever a good idea, or was too clever by half.
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The cartoon is just too clever.
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His advisers insist that Mr Obama is too clever to usher in a new age of over-regulation, that he will stop such nonsense getting out of Congress, that he is a political chameleon who would move to the centre in Washington.
Polanski used the dour north coast of Germany as a substitute for the Vineyard in winter, and the cinematographer Pawel Edelman turns the constant downpour and gloom into a beautiful, slate-colored curtain a subdued but enveloping field of lies and secrecy, impenetrable to the Ghost, who is lost among power players far too clever for him.
It also avoids too-clever-by-half trigger mechanisms and the opposite pitfall of a laborious legal process.
So far trimming and too-clever-by-half evasions have been found out every time, while radical clarity has paid off.
You simply cannot have industrial age lifestyles for 69% of the population, using too-clever arbitrage schemes involving Internet marketing of health-supplements.
But evidently, it was only a game to the too-clever-for-you Stockman.
Maybe -- if we're being picky -- this is all too self-consciously clever to be truly scary on the visceral, soul-gnawing level of the most unforgettable horror films.
Graduates in recent years, for example, seem to have accepted far too readily the notion that clever financial engineering could somehow abolish risk and uncertainty, when it probably made things worse.
The idea behind the tour is, on the surface, clever but will prove too postmodern for its own good.
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