Sentences with phrase «idiot savant»

Basically a home run idiot savant.

This week it could be Obi Mikel ruined a very amusing start to Avram Grant's career, that Tottenham are a bit crap, that Cesc Fabregas is some kind of footballing idiot savant, that Rafa Benitez is losing support for his title push as quickly as he gained it or that Derby may or may not be relegated by this time next week.

Staff * No matter what name Adam Sandler assumes, he's the same persona in every movie: the ultimate village idiot savant.

by Walter Chaw Fresh from The Natural and with a couple of films to go until Rain Man, Barry Levinson snuck in Young Sherlock Holmes, another adventure of a gawky idiot savant hero, which I initially saw as a lad of twelve one afternoon with my best friend before either of us had developed much discretion.

Enter the eponymous Dale (Tyler Labine), a sweetly stupid idiot savant, and his best friend Tucker (Alan Tudyk), the proud owner of a new «vacation home,» a real fixer upper that, apparently, once belonged to a disciple of Ed Gein.

The film is a dedicatedly stupid murder - mystery / small town hick opera featuring your standard collection of comely waitresses bound for better things, saucy diner matrons, scumbags with sidekicks, stolid policemen, preternaturally bright children, and literal idiot savants.

When looking at other districts where our resident idiot savant educational leaders have worked their magic, there is a strong compulsion to show that Charter schools and Turnaround schools benefit from the chicanery and bs.

As ever, Shrigley appears the self - styled idiot savant, dressing his keen observations with faux - naivety.

The romantic image of the artist as genius, or perhaps idiot savant, receives particular scrutiny.

According to biology idiot savant Anthony Watts (you know where the emphasis lies), we shouldn't care if species are going extinct because we're finding news ones so fast it doesn't matter!

-LSB-...] Our laboratories, as a result, are crammed with idiot savants, people with a profound understanding of their own subject, but who know nothing whatever about the political and economic realities which govern its deployment.

Persons who display savant syndrome have traditionally been called idiot savants, a term that many currently avoid because of its negative connotations.

Think of them more as idiot savants.

Potential isolation by brain damage.The existence of idiots savants, prodigies and other exceptional individuals.

This is because the house of god has lost it's way, telling women to live in the dark ages, telling 3rd world countries with rampant HIV and excessive births and infant mortality to continue abstaining and not use appropriate birth control akin to the idiot savant named George W Bush whose policies perpetuated this.

Just because his name has resemblance to Muslim, and Islam - did anyone assume Bush had ties to idiot savants, when he spoke and acted as he did??

Peyton Manning now calls him «our idiot savant kicker.»

Unfortunately, he's an idiot savant.

«Idiot savant,» he calls himself.

But despite its incredible Go - playing prowess, AlphaGo Zero is still «an idiot savant» that can't do anything except play Go, he says.

«I think he's a genius,» says Palmer, «but kind of like an idiot savant.

They can be idiot savants, like a bright dog.

Greta Gerwig stars in her idiot savant Annie Hall mode as Maggie, a New York art dealer who is trying to become a single mom using sperm donated by an old school contemporary who is now making a fortune marketing pickles.

The difference here is that this idiot savant is blessed with a love of opera and a great singing voice.

Todd Phillips is amazing and Zach [Galifianakis] is an idiot savant.

The Caveman's Valentine is a fine and a courageous film, crazy enough to suggest that the delirious yammering of an idiot savant is the best and truest paladin of order in the chaos of Eliot's rat's alley wasteland.

«The Big Lebowski» is like the cinematic equivalent of an idiot savant, because despite a seemingly incoherent plot filled with dumb characters and even dumber decisions, it's actually far more clever than it lets on.

Her Mary Anning can seem at times like an idiot savant, whereas the real Mary Anning must have been incredibly sharp and precise to do the work she did, to know what she was seeing when she discovered something on the beach and to understand how all the intricate pieces fit together.

In this case the central action is a high - stakes art heist wrapped around the tale of two brothers - the probably brilliant painter Michael Boone, who has recently been released from prison, and his psychologically damaged «idiot savant» bear - like brother.

I've always had a penchant for this genre, with friends from college still referring to me as an idiot savant when it comes to effortlessly working my way through any number of twisting, trap - filled corridors.

His areas of expertise included impersonating Burger Rider and Doctor Sparkle, being an idiot savant at Superman 64, and having an insane love for all things Zelda and Earthbound related.

Perks in order of priority (starting out and staying in Survival mode): Idiot Savant (with 1 intelligence point), Toughness, Armorer, Locksmith, Lifegiver, Rifleman, Scrounger, Chem Resistant, and Refractor.

His «idiot savant» was the perfect foil for her chic, Audrey Hepburnesque sophistication.

In 1975, Wiley created his persona «Mr. Unnatural,» who has appeared in a hilarious series of portraits of the artist as an idiot savant, with dunce cap, kimono, and geisha sandals.

If they were seemingly pro-GM, it was because, as «idiot savants», they were unable to fathom the ethical, political, and economic consequences of their science.

Even George Monbiot managed to call them «idiot savants» for their backing of GM crop production.

From this perspective, a law school graduate most nearly resembles an idiot savant, able to perform impressive mental feats of calculation and memorization but unable to perform simple survival tasks or otherwise function in society.