Sentences with phrase «like brainiac»

Not like some brainiac with no people skills.»

Writers Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simons get the details right — like the alliterative names from Superman's history [Roxanne Ritchie for Lois Lane; Megamind for Lex Luthor — though he's really more like Brainiac; even giving the archetypal superhero the alliterative name Metro Man], or the idea that a superhero as invincible as Metro Man must have a weakness.

Not exact matches

Allowing these brainiacs and bleeding hearts to make politics less fun yet again are websites like this one, MidwestRedistricting.org, which provides video training, links and white papers on how the redistricting process works and how to actually draw «fair» districts.

And her suggestion of a new public enthusiasm for science was supported entirely by the success of TV shows like CSI and Numb3rs, in which geeky, obsessive brainiacs use science to track down psychotic killers who are dismembering young, attractive, too - naive members of society.

Names like «Silver Coast,» «Day Dreamer,» «Wild Child,» and «Brainiac» show there's something for everyone.

Buffs and Brainiacs specializes in organizing social events for singles who like to mix things up.

Later, when she becomes a brainiac, she gets more physical swagger but behaves more like a robot, speaking in affectless monotone while moving with high - speed efficiency.

are well represented), it's titled for the opening gambit of a real British TV game show called University Challenge, which features brainiacs like Brian.

It seems like an outlandish claim, but the brainiacs at MIT and the Texas Advanced Computing Center insist that they've created an Android app that is genuinely capable of doing supercomputing on a phone.

Considering himself to be a savior, Brainiac visits inhabited planets, shrinking their cities and bottling them up like snow globs.

When the brainiac scientist sinks a long putt for par, she tosses her club up in the air and catches it like a baton wielding drum major, a move that fails to convey her scientific background.

Brainiac is a collector at the mercy of a neverending quest for knowledge, which he pursues forcefully by shrinking and bottling other planets and civilisations like an over-zealous pickling enthusiast, destroying all remnants in the process.

The first shows could draw Rice's brainiac engineers and scientists — as well as the broader community — like moths to light, literally.