Sentences with phrase «of eggheads»

We wish we could laugh at their pretensions of expanding the horizons of the genre, at their pathetic attempts to write tough - guy dialogue, but the sad fact is, most of these eggheads have pretty damn good taste when it comes to hard - boiled fiction.

Against all odds: Iain Duncan Smith has the party and the genesis of a few good ideas, but like Phil Collins he looks too much of an egghead for many people.

It could be that Dawn will play a relative of Egghead's as Ant - Man and the Wasp tries to make the slapstick villain more serious.

Not exact matches

That first year the company gained distribution with Egghead Software and a smattering of other computer - specialty stores and catalogs.

The tech industry, with it's army of engineers and eggheads, is the most dynamic and chattered about sector around, so - called «quants» are the new media superstars, and even something as old - school as farming is being radically disrupted by new, smarter ways of doing business.

Because this knowledge is no longer egghead territory, what companies do with the consumer information that they collect, hold and sell is one of the most pressing issues facing society today.

Evolution would be a little more believable Bill if the «theories» didn't constantly change because you eggheads and science keep proofing significant parts of your own theory to be completely wrong.

The public radio eggheads at Planet Money have finally used their knowledge of economics and mathematics to determine something incredibly useful: how to get the best deal on a pizza.

Illinois Eggheads National Pasteurized Eggs Inc.'s patented process not only eliminates the risk of salmonella poisoning, but it ensures a better taste and longer shelf life.

The Naked Whiz, fellow egghead and keeper of the lump charcoal database has on his website a series of e-cookbooks derived from Eggfests around the country and featuring recipes that have all been perfected on the egg.

Out goes the uniform 7.45 pm start and (in a blow to fans of «Eggheads») in come 5.55 pm and 8 pm (UK time).

I do not think that some eggheads from Number 10 Downing Street simply went to sleep and didn't prepare their boss think - tanking for his outburst at the Buckingham Palace on Tuesdayas the world awaited the commencement of the global summit on corruption holding in London.

Such judgments are more properly rendered by think - tank eggheads like Jerry Benjamin of New Paltz, the father of the charter.

According to a preview chapter of an upcoming book by Sassha Issenberg, available on Amazon.com as «Rick Perry and His Eggheads,» campaign manager Dave Carney brought in four social scientists (including two from Yale) during the candidate's 2006 gubernatorial reelection bid in Texas.

In this episode of Instant Egghead, Scientific American editor Mark Fischetti explains how these massive storms get their start.

As I look back on a 30 - plus year career split equally between Harvard Medical School and the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I am struck by the even greater contrasts in culture, values, leadership style, and work ethic between the «Eggheads» of the Ivy League and the «Cheeseheads» in Wisconsin.

«It is a dodge,» journalist Levitan writes, «a bit of down - home hucksterism designed to marginalize those eggheads over there who actually are scientists as somehow out of touch or silly.»

ScientificAmerican.com reporter David Biello explains carbon in part one of this Instant Egghead episode

For the rest of us landlocked animals — except, it seems, for the NASA eggheads who persist in sending wheeled rovers to Mars — it's legs or bust.

In this episode of Instant Egghead we get to the bottom of this mystery and, oh yeah, also explain the scientific method.

Anyway, I thought it would be a more productive and helpful use of computer programming, than having some dating site tell me that I should stay the hell away from a certain woman I might happen to think would be very pleasant to know, all because some egghead didn't use the correct equation, and it shows that «Ms. Potentially Right» is actually 21 % FRIENDLY with, but 162 % ENEMY of someone with my kind of profile!!!

No matter the individual brand of geek, techies and eggheads of all stripes can easily link up to someone who gets it.

I am currently working on a Hindu translation of Hamlet... i'm going to call it Ommlet... just a little something for the eggheads...

New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier is the egghead boy toy of such glamorous powers as Barbra Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, and Tipper Gore.

Subtitled «The Don Rickles Project,» «Mr. Warmth» — airing this month on HBO (beginning Sunday night)-- managed to tickle the eggheads on the selection committee of the rarefied New York Film Festival, where director John Landis («Animal House,» «The Blues Brothers») playfully insulted his own audience members last month and offered an exacting defense of his subject.

Stripes is the definitive military comedy, and the first onscreen pairing of Ramis as the egghead counterpoint to Bill Murray's wiseacre lead.

It wants to appeal to eggheads, so it opens with a title card that promises what follows is based on «new» archaeological evidence; then, for the alleged delight of the peanut gallery, it trots out the same period epic dog - and - pony show to which we've been repeatedly subjected since Zulu Dawn.

I do consider myself a bit of a cinematic egghead.

Nonetheless, The Education of Charlie Banks is entertaining enough, provided you buy into the idea that even eggheads can relate to a rude rebel without a clue.

After a veteran risk - management officer (Stanley Tucci) loses his job in the latest round of layoffs, he leaves his egghead protégé (Zachary Quinto) with a flash drive and urges him to look at the information on it.

The cult of Billy Beane will remain a source of contention, especially now that his methods have become commonplace and his A's have slumped into mediocrity, but Moneyball persuades as a rousing egghead triumph.

Worthless to get into it much, but find booming tenor Capt. Miller (Fishburne) the leader of this ragtag, Alien - stencilled band — the various other roughnecks interchangeable save the jive - turkey handyman Cooper (Richard T. Jones) and the perfunctory egghead outsider Dr. Weir (Sam Neill), on board to offer his expert advice on the demonic goings - on.

Whiz Kids (Unrated) Brainiac documentary about a trio of 17 year - old eggheads competing to win the nation's most prestigious science competition.

It is not one movie, but all movies, thus falling perfectly under egghead Umberto Eco's definition of a cult movie.

But she raised a lot of questions for «eggheads» like us who have pushed for these ambitious new academic standards:

Along with the power boost, top speed increases by 8 mph to 208 while the 0 - 62 mph time dips to a super quick 3.7 seconds — an improvement of 0.2 second, say AMR eggheads.

«Egghead Weds Hourglass» screamed one newspaper headline when the opposites - attract pair wed in 1956, while negative predictions and snap judgments were doled out by pundits like Truman Capote, who quipped the marriage could be called «Death of a Playwright.»

There comes a kind of schadenfreude when their models blow up, where qualitative mangers get to say, «See, I knew it was too good to be true,» and in the newspapers, a kind of bewilderment at eggheads whose models failed them.

Founded in 1831 as America's first «rural cemetery,» this former park is liberally littered with the graves of Boston's original social elite — Mayflower descendants and Harvard eggheads abound.

Yes, looks like it's been one of those years where the blithe buy - and - hold 100 % home market «investor» beats most of us hard working egghead investor types..!

Bill and I call them «eggheads» because of what's in there, not just for the way it looks.

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They think only eggheads do this sort of thing, and they are right, because we do not use language that is accessible to non-eggheads.

Thousands of scientists are just liberal eggheads that hate free market capitalism!

This is increasingly the public image of the climate science community — a bunch of clumsy eggheads who can't defend themselves.

But if Science tells them something they don't want to hear, they cease being the wonderful well - educated person that contributed a new piece of technology and become an «Egghead» who doesn't really know what they're talking about.

He draws in his salt - of - the - earth listeners with a kind of folksy bush wisdom that has little time for eggheads with PhDs in atmospheric physics.

Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur - Fascism, from Hermann Goering's fondness for a phrase from a Hanns Johst play («When I hear the word «culture» I reach for my gun») to the frequent use of such expressions as «degenerate intellectuals,» «eggheads,» «effete snobs,» and «universities are nests of reds.»

To really do any kind of job at predicting future temperatures, we need more than egghead computer models tweaked in some scientist's office.

Cosmic rays don't have any correlation with temperature anyway, so it's just a waste of time, except I'm always for a little egghead welfare, you never know, the cosmec ray climate hypothesis might accidently produce some interesting science.