Sentences with word «egghead»

An artist makes a movie that is so labyrinthine and obscure, such a road map of blind alleys, such a turgid challenge to sit through that it sends most people skulking out of the theater «Äî except, that is, for a cadre of eggheads who hail the work as a visionary achievement.

If we think our research is really not important, that only eggheads at universities with well - funded libraries have any interest in it, if what we do with our lives actually doesn't matter, then we can go on as we are.

That first year the company gained distribution with Egghead Software and a smattering of other computer - specialty stores and catalogs.

In other words, he's a spoilsport, a know - it - all, and the kind of smug egghead who's likely to have his skepticism (and nerve) tested in the course of Ghost Stories.

Traditional merchants such as Egghead Software kept the orders coming.

He draws in his salt - of - the - earth listeners with a kind of folksy bush wisdom that has little time for eggheads with PhDs in atmospheric physics.

Scientific American editor Larry Greenemeier explains why in our latest Instant Egghead video: More to explore: What Should a Robot Look Like?

They think only eggheads do this sort of thing, and they are right, because we do not use language that is accessible to non-eggheads.

Are scientists elitist egghead liberals?

«They're elitist eggheads like our great Senator Carlucci.

Then has to rebuild the team to compete with others that have better squads, based on the facts they have been there longer and had more money... all the time when funds are restricted at WHU because egghead couldnt do his sums!

Susan Storm is also a brooding, glowering egghead scientist, The Human Torch is a brooding, glowering super-fast fire dude while, finally, The Thing is a brooding, glowering rock - monster.

The concept struck fellow egghead Gladwell as rubbish, and he penned a devastating critique in The New Yorker.

Theologians are sometimes perceived as dry, dusty eggheads, but that image couldn't be more wrong where Ruth Padilla DeBorst is concerned.

[See Scientific American's Instant Egghead video below for a fuller explanation of uncanny valley.]

A disappointingly dry lecture in finance strictly with egghead appeal that manages to squander the services of an A-list cast composed of Academy Award - winners (Marisa Tomei, Melissa Leo and Christian Bale) and nominees (Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell).

There comes a kind of schadenfreude when their models blow up, where qualitative mangers get to say, «See, I knew it was too good to be true,» and in the newspapers, a kind of bewilderment at eggheads whose models failed them.

I'd rather write something that a lot of people love, than something a few eggheads appreciate as brilliant.

Because this knowledge is no longer egghead territory, what companies do with the consumer information that they collect, hold and sell is one of the most pressing issues facing society today.

Evidence of this ongoing dialogue crop up frequently: Two years ago a group of university economics professors chaired by Columbia's celebrity egghead Joseph Stiglitz produced a nearly 300 - page report for French president Nicholas Sarkozy on why new measures should be introduced to replace or supplement GDP.

And feeling is much more compelling than listening to eggheads spout statistics on television.

They've also announced partnerships with iTaotaoke to assistance strengthen calm creator's digital egghead skill rights.

A typical, arrogant, ivory tower egghead.

Latterly his onscreen appearances have branched out to entertainment as well, hosting the quiz show Eggheads for many years, and lasting until week eight on Strictly Come Dancing in 2015 (one of his personal career highlights).

The public radio eggheads at Planet Money have finally used their knowledge of economics and mathematics to determine something incredibly useful: how to get the best deal on a pizza.

They want «ordinary» folks — not overeducated eggheads who think so abstractly that they don't recognize a plain simple fact on the one hand, or don't respond to emotional appeals on the other.

It turns out that the PM has promoted a renowned egghead and someone who wanted to «overthrow capitalism».

Such judgments are more properly rendered by think - tank eggheads like Jerry Benjamin of New Paltz, the father of the charter.

/ / Learn what causes dizziness in this new video from Scientific American «s Instant Egghead series.

For the rest of us landlocked animals — except, it seems, for the NASA eggheads who persist in sending wheeled rovers to Mars — it's legs or bust.

But eggheads tend to be politically liberal.

But a small community of eggheads spend their lives in that nebulous space.

Throughout the eighties, Kilmer played as diverse an assortment of roles as could be found: he was the goofy, playfully sarcastic, egghead roommate and mentor to Gabe Jarrett in Martha Coolidge's Real Genius, the cocky Ice Man in Top Gun, and warrior Madmartigan in the Ron Howard / George Lucas fantasy Willow (1988).

By the end, Stifler will redeem himself after being disgraced a few times, egghead Finch (Eddie Kay Thomas) will resume his affair with Stifler's Mom (Jennifer Coolidge), and Jim and Michelle will prepare to film American Honeymoon or something.

Everything was hunky - dory until the algae suddenly vanished; now, she and five fellas (nonchalant «space janitor» Val Kilmer, egghead Tom Sizemore, macho Benjamin Bratt, earnestly theological Terence Stamp, and dweebish Simon Baker) must journey millions of miles to find out where it went.

All of this says nothing of the worthy candidates The Artist already beat to the shortlist, like J. Edgar, whose old - age artistry was wrongfully knocked in reviews, and Green Lantern, which saw Peter Sarsgaard grossly mutate into the ultimate toxic egghead.

(In English and Russian with subtitles) Frontrunners (Unrated) Egghead documentary chronicles the campaign for student body president at Stuyvesant High School, the most competitive public high school, academically, in New York City.

I do consider myself a bit of a cinematic egghead.

Like seeing the uncoordinated egghead, Reed Richards on the dance floor, it's either shake your booty and look silly or sit down and sulk.

LEGALLY BLONDE (Grade: B): Reese Witherspoon stars as the campus sorority queen who remakes herself as an L.A. chic egghead at Harvard Law School in this bubbly little comedy.

They're a bunch of egghead scriptmen who bring Baird to a beatific beachside home, still in his Roman soldier get - up.