Sentences with phrase «bigger than his common sense»

I am hoping he is just a crackpot whose ego is bigger than his common sense.

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The committee's plan for determining which teams play in the best games has not yet been completely disclosed, but if it leads to a common - sense determination of teams based on merit, rather than an application of cryptic and unforgiving rules made solely to prevent unscrupulous bowl executives from turning every big bowl game into Notre Dame against someone vaguely local, it's a massive improvement in the process.

Also its just basic common sense we have the 5th largest fan base World wide, made it to the knock out stages in 2012/13 season where as city didn't, we have a bigger stadium and charge more money, city's newest sponsorship deal is worth around 12mill per year ffs how could they have greater revenue than us.

I think you can certainly drop it into the big category of physics articles that illuminate the universe by telling us that it is indeed much more deeply complicated and counter intuitive than most of us would think; that when you start to look at the fringes of what we understand about physics and how the world works, you really get the sense that we are locked in [to] certain set of perceptions that do not necessarily apply; that our kind of common sense, everyday [intuitions] are not a very good guide to understanding how the universe can behave at certain scales or under certain conditions.

Nina Tiecholz stated in her book, The Big Fat Surprise, «The idea that fat and saturated fat are unhealthy has been so ingrained in our national conversation for so long that we tend to think of it more as «common sense» than scientific hypothesis.

For no current - affairs commentator do I have greater respect than Peggy Noonan, whose sagacity, common sense, plain - spokenness, and «big picture» view of things are as welcome — and rare — as the clarity and persuasiveness of her prose.

Common sense and experience suggest that higher speaking or consulting fees are likely to be generated by big buzz in general rather than by a one - week guest appearance on a best - seller list.