Sentences with phrase «really clever people»

Isn't it embarrassing when really clever people laugh at your devoutly held nonsense?

It's a view endorsed by Martin Scorsese («Cinema is gone»), Ridley Scott («Cinema mainly is pretty bad») and Jane Campion («The really clever people do television»).

Not exact matches

«However, if governments and businesses are clever, the advance of technology could actually be really positive for people all over the world.

The comments are really helpful too and I thank all the amazing contributors and it set me to wondering if those clever and helpful people also got their thank you.

I acknowledging my privilege, cry over pictures of Freddie Gray, make it out to a protest or two once in a while, read books by people smarter than me, retweet people more clever than me... It's really not enough.

duckdowndesigns This person is really clever and very creative.

If you look at Lamarck it is there, I mean, they all do [it]; and afterwards people like Heckel [Hegel], it's there; and I think that this really does show not just that Darwin was clever, but that he was a sophisticated thinker and he knew that getting into that one was just going to, you know, for another matter, open a can of worms.

«It's a nice model, and really clever, but I don't think that people respond to surveys in a way that lets us use his model,» says Bob Clemen, a decision analyst at Duke University.

So I'm grateful that Adam is helping me reach out to folks like you — savvy, sophisticated, successful and clever people who want to understand how the body REALLY loses weight and returns to health...

Yes, people * did * lose weight and the logic of Atkins» argument sounded clever, but the science later showed that high fat / low carb diets were horrible for triglycerides, lipoproteins (the really bad cholsterol that inflammes arteries) and overall cardiovascular health.

It's a clever way to acknowledge that often there really is no way to get at the truth of things, sometimes because someone is outright lying, but also sometimes because people's perspectives on events, even when they were both present, can be very different (sometimes because of the aforementioned lying - to - oneself).

A lot of people like the BBC's Sherlock, with its clever twists on old stories, creative imagery, and fun chemistry between Benedict Cumberbatch's Holmes and Martin Freeman's Dr. Watson, but some people don't just like it, they really like it.

A number of clever coders (people who understand Internet stuff really well) have created software that help authors like us cut back on the labour intensive work behind collecting good quality reviews.

It's clever technology that really works, but in the first - generation Paperwhite some people complained of a banded or mottled interference pattern — basically, inconsistent lighting — at the bottom of the screen.

People to really know who they want to reach and why or else, they'll have no way to know what they're trying to achieve.The dog is very clever and faithful animal.

It's fantastic to see my beloved hobby managing to make its way back into the mainstream, bringing people together in a way that even the best online multiplayer video game can't really do, and with age has come deeper mechanics, clever designs and strong themes.

It looks like fun, clever gameplay, but for me (and I imagine some number of other people) there needs to be a hook beyond just really awesome gameplay.

That game, which launched with The Orange Box compilation back in 2007, was a physics based first person puzzler that wrapped up some really clever technology, including the famous portal gun, with the most entertainingly unexpected story and dialogue you could ever imagine.

All you have is this computer, and while they've become more and more malleable, what matters really is the way people are using them, how clever and creative they are in making something interesting.

As so often happens, a clever person provided a funny but also very useful explanation of what the new old TOS really means to users.

Michelle: There was a great story about these women at the white house who were on the white house staff I think in the previous administration who had kind of got together and said, «This is what we're going to do,» and they had a name for it that will not come to me right now but it was essentially that anytime that one woman gave an idea in a meeting, another woman would sort of echo that in order to reinforce and to prevent the mansplaning or the manterrupting, which is another great little term that people use or really allow that woman who originally said the idea to be able to take credit for it and be able to speak out and feel reinforced in that meeting which I just thought was a really clever way to do it.

Just using it to score points off the other side is doomed because some clever people are watching — who really do understand — and they will make life miserable for you.

Overly clever résumés or cutesy positioning can really kill you with this person, because they don't understand the nod and the wink that comes with writing «Chief Bottle Washer» when you really mean «Co-Founder.»

Overly clever resumes or cutesy positioning can really kill you with this person, because they don't understand the nod and the wink that comes with writing «Chief Bottle Washer» when you really mean «Co-Founder».