Sentences with phrase «seemingly bright people»

Clinical but also deeply compassionate, «Compliance» demonstrates in detail how seemingly bright people can be persuaded to do horrible things.

Not exact matches

«Experts on cult behavior,» says the editorial in the New York Times, will help us understand «the underlying pathology that led such seemingly bright and articulate people to a tragic misjudgment.»

We all know people who, seemingly incapable of living without the bright screen of their phone for more than a few minutes, are constantly texting and checking out what friends are up to on social media.

There is no other way, for example, to explain the life of Kyle (Max Thieriot), a seemingly bright young man who is the same young man from the opening paragraph who makes his living appealing to the baser natures of anonymous people from a hellhole of a communal house, filled with other young men and women (and, in certain instances, teenagers) who do the same.

But there is this misconception flying out there, seemingly promoted by people exactly like me, that painting all rooms white will make them feel bigger, brighter and just generally more beautiful.