Sentences with phrase «flash of genius»

As the movie goes through the motions, you will find yourself liking it more than the usual effort simply for the small flashes of genius.

In hindsight, I was embarrassed to not have included the obvious choice of Flash of Genius for my law - related movies website, so I have updated my site to include that movie (along with Hart's War, a military court martial movie), bringing the total number of law - related movies on my site to 118 movies.

Darwin turned the world upside down, but there was more drama seeing Greg Kinnear play the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper in Flash of Genius.

Abel first made his mark in the critically acclaimed 2008 film FLASH OF GENIUS for director Mark Abraham.

Manu Ginobili showed flashes of his genius, but he's 40 years old; flashes are all that should and can be expected.

Andrew Ng, formerly of Google and now of Baidu, is one who doesn't believe innovation is due to unpredictable flashes of genius.

I'm not claiming anything either way, at the end of the day we are all desperate Arsenal fans with a miserly manager who displays excellent consistency with flashes of genius, but frustrates us to the max!

Parent Hacks: 134 Genius Shortcuts for Life with Kids is a compilation of the best time - saving, problem - solving flashes of genius floating around the interwebs.

The genesis of this useful but seemingly incidental feature of the modern automobile even attracted Hollywood scriptwriters in search of a latter - day David and Goliath tale that became a 2008 release called Flash of Genius.

Robert Kearns invented the intermittent windshield wiper and Flash of Genius tells the story of how he invented the wiper and how he fought in court to protect what was rightfully his.

Even the lesser works of De Palma contain flashes of genius, while the best of his movies rank as pure cinema.

A number of them were femme - helmed and femme - centric flashes of genius.

Yes, anyone can publish anything thanks to the Internet, and the result has not been a flood of genius — there's a lot of crap, some mediocre work, and the very occasional flash of genius.

There are indeed flashes of genius within Doomsday that remind me of the original trilogy, but it's far harder to enjoy them when they are surrounded by so many mistakes.

There's a scene near the beginning of Flash of Genius that neatly and amusingly speaks volumes about its protagonist, Dr. Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear).

She draws on several movies for specific purposes (e.g., Adam's Rib and Suspect for ethics, evidence and criminal law), North Country for employment law, and Flash of Genius for IP Law).

Bergson said this first, and it is one of his flashes of genius.

Well it turns out I had more popsicle liquid than patience to make more popsicles — and in a flash of genius I figured that the combinations would make pretty good sorbets.

Look No player deserves abuse as it were but its clear to all and sundry that Olivier Giroud is NEVER going to be the beast of a golscoring striker that we really really need Yes he does have flashes of genius and yes he can score a goal when he puts his mond to it, but he clearly lacks the really big game mentality and when it really matters, (against Monaco at home last season) he's found wanting, its not his fault per sey but he's just NOT good enough.

Even without one, you can still see that flash of genius in him... The way he unlock defences is amazing..

Flashes of genius?

But when he had these flashes of genius, oh boy!

It proved to be a flash of genius as the youngster scored the crucial equalizer immediately and then nabbed the winner in extra time.

It is a flash of genius, but possibly one with a fatal flaw.

One moment, we can have a flash of genius, only to be back to business as usual the next.

I think I had a flash of genius here when I figured this recipe out but others might say it was just a lucky idea driven by hunger.

Considering how predictable the story was, Flash of Genius was a fairly good film to watch.

Flash of Genius is the true story about Robert Kearns who is credited as one of the first to bring a lawsuit against a big corporation that infringed on a patent.

Flash of Genius was a good film, but that was where the trouble lied with the film.

Critics Consensus: The touching underdog story of a single guy against a massive corporation, Flash of Genius is a well - paced and well - written tale with a standout performance by star Greg Kinnear.

Critic Consensus: The touching underdog story of a single guy against a massive corporation, Flash of Genius is a well - paced and well - written tale with a standout performance by star Greg Kinnear.

Flash of Genius could have been a truly great film, but its predictability kind of brought it down a notch.

From left to right, that's Bill Lake (Flash of Genius), America Ferrera (Ugly Betty), Meghan Heffern (What If), Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire), Ari Cohen (Maps to the Stars), Ricky Gervais, Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel), Mimi Kuzyk (The Day After Tomorrow), Eric Bana (Funny People), Kevin Pollak (The Usual Suspects), and Raúl Castillo (Looking).

The film, written and directed by Marc Abraham (Flash of Genius), stars Tom Hiddleston (Crimson Peak) in the title role, with Elizabeth Olsen (Avengers: Age of Ultron), David Krumholtz (Numb3rs), Cherry Jones (24) and Bradley Whitford (The West Wing) co-starring.

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Do the usual pre-screening intake of food and coffee (a festival staple) before getting ready to head off to the first screening, «Flash of Genius» which I am looking to seeing.

Plot details are still under wraps, but considering the flashes of genius that Sandler has shown before — and the unforgettable performances the Safdies» have previously ripped out of raw vessels like Arielle Holmes and Robert Pattinson — there's no reason not to expect something revelatory from this collaboration.

It should be impossible to turn this kind of raw material into such an interminable slog, and yet somehow writer and director Marc Abraham (who is best known as a producer; his other writing credits include Moonlighting and the original 21 Jump Street and his only other directorial gig is Flash of Genius) managed to do just that.

Forgive me if I'm not impressed that the idea that spoken word lectures and dramatic performances might be the basis for a book (and vice versa) is a some sort of flash of genius.

Nevertheless, there is a conscious mind behind those flashes of genius, judging, selecting and organizing them into a cohesive whole.

But if you don't follow those topics closely, you'll still find plenty of interesting tidbits such as Patent Baristas» preview of «Flash of Genius,» a movie about the landmark patent case involving the intermittent windshield wiper; Eric Lane's news that Green Patent Blog's trademark application was rejected; and Eric Menhart's analysis at Cyber Law of whether a third party's use of a political candidate's name as domain name raises infringement issues.

According to the press release, Patent Plaque is sponsored by the recently - released movie, «Flash of Genius» which tells the story of Bob Kearns, who invented and patented the intermittent windshield wiper, then spent the next 30 years in an effort to stop infringement by Detroit automakers.

A recent issue of the Globe and Mail prompted this flash of genius.