Sentences with word «braininess»

After years in the wilderness, RTS is pretty cool again right now, and something as cheerfully straightforward as this is just what's needed to stop the big braininess of «Company of Heroes» and «Supreme Commander» leading to another plunge into an inaccessibility that turns more casual players off the whole genre.

For Virginia Postrel, writing in The Atlantic back in 2007, it was dramas like CSI and Numb3rs that were making braininess sexy and imparting a «geeky glamour» to the airwaves — and that was before the rise - to - total - dominance of House, a prime - time juggernaut whose climax each week involves a man having a scientific epiphany illustrated by an animated sequence of a corpuscle misinterpreting a hormonal signal from a gland.

San Diego is a breeding ground for braininess, and deciding to live near all that sun and sand might in itself be a sign of intelligence.

Braininess in kids may not depend on the amount of gray matter so much as how fast it both thickens and thins as they grow up.

Braininess comes with a price, though, as such tissue is incredibly energetically expensive.

But what's perhaps most remarkable about it is the precision with which it creates such a lyrical story — Carruth's frightening braininess and preoccupation with the cleanliness of mathematical logic are here in spades, and yet that's all set in service of an agenda that's far more about the indefinable mysteries of love and connection.

Lauda is a mechanical genius — logical to a fault with the kind crippling of social ineptitude that frequently accompanies braininess — but he's steely - eyed and absolutely ice - in - his - veins fearless.

Irony then wound through the»90s and into the 21st Century with relative ease, making «post» — postmodern, post-postmodern, post-feminist, post-colonial — and «meta» catch phrases for anyone who wanted to sound coolly intellectual (though, to be fair, the desire to flaunt jaded braininess has haunted humans for centuries).

Synonyms deepness, profoundness, profundity Related Words discernment, perception, perceptiveness, perceptivity, percipience, sagacity, sapience, sense, sensibility, wisdom; braininess, brightness, brilliance, intellect, intelligence, judgment (or judgement), reason, sense, smartness, wit; acuity, acuteness, keenness, penetration, perspicacity, sensitivity, sharpness

Walking on two legs, along with opposable thumbs and braininess, is supposed to be what makes humans human.

Our braininess is one of our species» defining features.

Now, researchers say that social complexity also underlies the braininess of parrots, which have big brains relative to their body size.

Well, it is certainly not that the Ghost Hunters make braininess sexy; no, for that they would need more braininess.

Instead, our braininess as a species arises from having humongous numbers of just a few types of off - the - rack neurons and from the exponentially greater number of interactions between them.

A Wrinkle in Time, the movie, loses some of L'Engle's braininess — «tesseracting» time travel becomes less a consciousness - expanding journey than a yoga class in one scene — but in its place, there's a quiet radicalism, some of it offscreen.

It feels now like a slight wheeling back on the bleak existentialism of the peerless «The Dark Knight,» delivering more in the way of outright entertainment (Anne Hathaway's Catwoman, for example) but maybe a little less in terms of braininess and coherent philosophy.

Its child star was a «Jeopardy!» champ, so maybe he can get across Oskar's braininess.

After that it is down to your braininess.

Her work is always tied to both literature (often referencing the physical page, or a book's spine) and art history, and this notably vivacious example of a lithograph on stainless steal has the braininess of a Josef Albers reference and an attractive page - tear combined with a fun dollop of nudity.

This Bronx Museum show gives a vivid sense of the West Coast version, with its gawky rawness, sense of moral purpose, humor, and dovetailing of braininess and zaniness.

Oh sure parrots get all the attention for their braininess, plus they have that whole longevity and lovely plumage going for them.