Sentences with word «savant»

Goodman keeps the audience guessing as to whether he's a paranoid lunatic or some sort of savant who foresaw the apocalypse.

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Widener is an autistic savant who creates these mixed - media works on paper that give aesthetic, visible form to complex calculations based on the dates of certain historical events — the sinking of the Titanic is one of his favorites.

Miller has also seen physiological similarities in the brains of autistic savants and patients with frontotemporal dementia.

A young surgeon with Savant syndrome is recruited into the pediatric surgical unit of a prestigious hospital.

Or maybe Desmond is going to be an Alex Gordon - like savant in left, using that speed and his baseball instincts to cover way more ground than anyone has a right to expect.

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.

Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people.

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.

Once upon a time, you either needed to install a complex X10 system, or you needed an expensive, dealer - installed whole - house system like Savant or URC.

If the black sheep of this group runs a successful non-profit and lives in a beautiful house with an adoring wife Melanie (Jenna Fischer) and musical savant son on his way to Harvard, we're really doing ok.

Shadowy figures in the National Security Agency target a nine - year old autistic savant for death when he has shown the ability to decipher a top secret code.

I want the grey Savant Dress so badly, but I am waiting for sale.

The former was a William Gibsonesque cyberscape of almost - real science fiction, and the latter was imagined as savants armed with mythic abilities to gain access to any computer system.

In the showhouse's media room, James Street wing chairs from Thom Filicia Home for Vanguard flank a 24 - inch Rosie Touch TV by Savant.

I have the gray Savant Swing dress and wear it so much!

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Yuuki Mishima is a social media savant who uncovers the alter ego of the protagonist, so he naturally decides to work for the group and create the Phantom Thieves Aficionado Website (also known as the, wait for it, Phan - Site).

Evidence for this view comes from autistic children with savant skills such as Nadia.

In military time, 4:06 p.m. is actually 1606 hours, and when a certain mathematical savant columnist adds the digits 1 +6 +0 +6 he gets 13, which many consider to be a lucky number.

In a 1999 paper, Snyder and his colleague John Mitchell challenged the compulsive - learning explanation for savant abilities, arguing that the same skills are biologically latent in all of us.

Tom spent four years building the newly created company from the ground up, serving as its chief technical savant from February 2009 until February 2013 when a reorganization under the Company's new owner, Fluor Corporation, led to Tom's separation.

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.

A Parade magazine reader posed that question to columnist Marilyn vos Savant on October 28, 2007.

Michael Slenske writes, «in Painter's prime, -LSB-...] he lorded over the L.A. scene like the bastard son of P. T. Barnum and Suge Knight, a street - styled autodidact art savant who was mentored by a Who's Who of legendary dealers, including Leo Castelli and Walter Hopps, by day and by night scandalized cities from L.A. to Berlin alongside art gods like Mike Kelley and Martin Kippenberger.»

A few years later, he read about Nadia and other savant artists in Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales.

He does give the example of «Nadia,» an autistic - savant child who could not speak but was able to create detailed, fully realized drawings by age 4.

The second is that they become savants.

Without identifying his place on the spectrum, the film posits Turing as an Aspergers type whose savant genius came easier to him than the social niceties necessary for him to function under military protocol, or as part of a larger team.

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What it's about: When a father dies, his spoiled son inherits only a fraction of his small fortune while his autistic savant brother inherits the bulk of it.

The two outfits teamed up to uncover how rampant crypto Twitter scams are, using popular profiles such as Elon Musk, a well regarded tech savant and founder of companies such as Tesla and Space X, and Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum, who is generally respected in the crypto world proper.

Considering even savants are fallible...

«What makes savants so interesting is this jarring juxtaposition of ability and disability in the same person,» says Darold...

Inside, Nadia's drawings of horses adorn the walls; artwork by other savants hangs in nearby rooms.

Yet Tim, the calendar savant at Acorn, can calculate dates as far back as 1900, as well as into the future.

But certainly, there's a tantalizing notion that such savant abilities may be universal or latent in all of us, and could be released in certain circumstances.

Savant Books and Publications publishes unpublished, post-modern works of enduring value for English readers throughout the world.

That said, how much of a challenge it presents will likely depend on how serious of a rhythm gamer you are — so keep in mind that I'm a casual but consistent visitor to the genre and not a rhythm game savant.

In fifth grade, the budding style savant took a sewing class in the back of a shop, where she fashioned drapes for her bedroom out of mirror - ball fabric — Justina's mom gave her the freedom to design her own space as she saw it.