Sentences with phrase «for braininess»

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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).