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.
Not exact matches
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).