Sentences with phrase «as brainy»

Its activity and sleep tracking internals are also just about as brainy as the Fitbit Force and Nike FuelBand SE.

Jane Fonda as a brainy hooker (her first Oscar - winning performance) being pursued by a psycho killer.

And Albert Brooks is hilarious as the brainy reporter with perspiration problems.

2000's Wonder Boys got pigeonholed as a brainy collegiate drama, which it was, but it was also a movie about friendship and the different metrics by which success and failure can be measured.

But it is the trio of young actors — J. Mallory McCree as a brainy African Muslim, Octavia Chavez - Richmond as a surly native of the Dominican Republic and Raquel Castro as an all - American - girlish over-achiever from Peru — who stand out as they provide much - needed human faces for a pressing issue that is currently consuming the headlines

The Joshua Michael Stern directed jOBS, a director best known for the mediocre political comedy Swing Vote, also stars Dermot Mulroney, James Woods, Amanda Crew and Josh Gad as the brainy Steve Wozniak.

Michael Richards and Maury Chaykin play the rowdy relatives, supported by Andie MacDowell as the boy's dying mother and John Turturro as his brainy father.

For that he has Pine, just fine as the brainy American patriot, and Costner, perfect as the veteran soldier and father figure mentor, and Keira Knightly as well, playing Ryan's fiancée who gets pulled into the mission when she shows up to surprise Jack.

Gary Oldman has a ball as the brainy villain.

While this submarine adventure starts out as a brainy thriller with superior production design, it eventually gives in to the demands of the genre: silly plotting and corny melodrama.

While it may be true that it's nowhere near as brainy as its obvious screen antecedents Singin» in the Rain and A Star Is Born, it makes up in style what it lacks in smarts, and it's hard to resist the enchanting performances by Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo.

The movie surrounds Hamm with good supporting players, including Bill Paxton as a brainy pitching coach, Lake Bell as Bernstein's no - nonsense love interest and Alan Arkin, working his patented curmudgeonly mojo as a veteran scout.

«Love Don't Cost a Thing» (Warner Bros.) This remake of 1987's «Can't Buy Me Love» stars Nick Cannon («Drumline») as a brainy - but - dateless school outcast who makes a deal with the school cutie Christina Milian.

He was brought in as a brainy Ph.D. who crunches global data — but when Ryan ferrets out a meticulously planned scheme to collapse the U.S. economy and spark global chaos, he becomes the only man

We're actually twice as brainy as we think we are.

Surely, someone as brainy as David Miliband, can only have said this because behind it there must be some inner meaning?

The top scorers, Boston and San Francisco with 41 percent each, appear almost twice as brainy as poor Ulster County.

We sing the song, we relish as Brainy is thrown into the woods for his pedantic rants, and we hope Azrael never eats anybody.

I think he left out what he probably sees as a no brainier — his willingness to take a risk and invest in himself.

FreeStyle won the second ever Develop Quiz in Leamington Spa to take home bragging rights as the brainiest developers in the region.

Not exact matches

How To Win Founders and Influence Everybody (Wired) For years Wennmachers has quietly advanced a narrative that has shaped how the world sees Silicon Valley and how the Valley perceives itself — as a group of brainy outcasts upending the limits of the status quo.

The brainy billionaire says you'll rip through one of his picks in «three hours tops... because it's funny and smart as hell.»

Though The Simpsons began as a funhouse mirror held up to everyday America — the doofus dad and mischievous son, the loving mom and brainy daughter, the nerdy neighbour — over the years the show has gone from reflecting culture to influencing it.

Those brave and brainy revolutionaries who raised us» parents, professors, Self magazine» never so much as hinted that someday we might want to act like men and women.

As is often the way with brainy, moody teenagers, I had come to believe in the gospel according to Jack Kerouac, Dizzy Gillespie, and a hodgepodge of Japanese poets, absurdist playwrights, and existentialist philosophers whose works I'd found on adjacent shelves on the second floor of the public library.

, where chef Justin Woodward morphs seasonal produce into brainy meditations on nature, as in his onion «terrarium» with green almonds and charcoal oil.

Sendek has alwaysbeen known as one of the nation's brainiest coaches — he graduated summa cumlaude from Carnegie - Mellon — and he's eager to cultivate Harden's elevated hoopsIQ.

«She was brainy, regal, sexy, fiery and eclectic» he gushes, as if this is everything we need to know in the face of such careless financial abandon.

«Some consider Miliband, whose nickname at Number 10 was «egghead», as too brainy to be leader.»

BRAINY CHIMPS Some modern chimps have brain surface features that were thought to have signaled humanlike brain evolution in hominids from as early as 3 million years ago, scans suggest.

Still, rare glimpses of Romney in unguarded moments suggest that beneath his image as a successful businessman beats the heart of the sort of brainy young man who excelled at Harvard University.

The analysis also discovered that the raccoon was an outlier — on the brainy side: It packs the same number of cortical neurons as a dog into a brain the size of a cat's.

We think of tool use as something brainy primates and birds do, but even the humble ant can pick up the right tool for the job.

Many researchers over the years have wondered why these brainy individuals then went extinct, but because Neanderthal DNA remains in current populations, these hominids were probably just absorbed into what is now known as Homo sapiens.

Do they use the same or different processing strategies as their «brainy» relatives?

Today's bookworms would never have met Hermione Granger - first described as having big teeth and bushy hair, then revealed to be the brainiest and most talented young witch at Hogwarts - without the miraculous creation of Jane Eyre.

Speaking of oversize trend... I do like that long sweater worn as a dress trend, you know by itself... that one at least seems like a no brainier, but combining it with other clothing items seems a bit hard... skinny jeans seem an obvious option... as well as tights... but with other types of pants and skirts, it can sort of split us in two and look too bulky - what do you think?

Her fall collection is described as artly, brainy and fun — from colors such as fuchsia, orange, turquoise and lime, with a slew of great plaid coats that were adorable paired with Mod - ish shift dresses and skirts and down to the eyewear.

Of course, most singles really like to date smart and brainy individuals as much as possible.

New Trier High School (/ n uː ˈ t r ɪər /, also known as New Trier Township High School or NTHS) is a public four - year high school, with its main In this family - friendly hit, a jock and a brainy new girl defy their friends» expectations by choosing the school musical over their usual pursuits.

It also helps to have a great roster of familiar faces in those new roles, including Philip Seymour Hoffman as the new Games architect Plutarch Heavensbee, Jeffrey Wright & Amanda Plummer as a pair of brainy Games victors, Sam Claflin as Finnick Odair, and Jena Malone as tough victor Johanna Mason.

But as the title would suggest, it's really a movie about the kids: Jake (Theo Taplitz, one of those Baumbachian brainy teens) and gregarious Tony (Michael Barbieri, terrific) become fast friends even as their disagreeing parents approach a legal crisis.

Before it decides to trade in its imaginative to - be-young-nerdy-and-black take on the coming - of - age chestnut for Tarantinoesque posturing — the second half might as well be called «Dope Fiction» — Famuyiwa's brainy, cartoonish take on what's become a Sundance staple positively crackles.

Though there's a whiff of been - there - done - that to the tournament that takes up the latter portion of the film, Katniss's fellow entrants include a brainy, bespectacled Beetee (Jeffrey Wright); a spacey - intense Wiress (Amanda Plummer); a diligently self - loving Finnick (Sam Claflin); and a mad - as - hell - not - going - to - take - it - anymore Johanna (Jena Malone, who's rewarded with perhaps the film's most gratifying moment).

Two pale UKers serve as action - averted comic relief: Scottish nerd Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) and brainy Brit Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge), a duo who is neatly referred to as «Fitz - Simmons.»

Cronenberg's brainy approach makes this film fascinating but demanding as it traces the birth of psychoanalysis through the relationship and rivalry between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

For those who prefer not to watch Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson defend a skyscraper from terrorists — «it's «Die Hard,» with a taller building,» was the pitch — there will be brainy, thoughtful and cinematically challenging films released this summer as well, covered in Carla Meyer's indie movie preview.

She's a phallic, brainy, and possibly murderous superwoman, though she's as much the product of mythology and the puritanical imagination as Harron and Turner's Page.

The bad guys are too non-descript to serve as much of a threat, and despite their affiliation with the allegedly brainy Erudite faction, their plans are as dim as their motives are hazy.

Peggy Sue keeps her incredible time - traveling experience secret from all but one student, choosing brainy valedictorian Richard Norvik (Barry Miller) as her confidant.