(1) The BBC's gently teasing brainbox Evan Davis asked minister David Willetts whether the plan amounted to the hope that all government policies would work well.
(2) In the pink pages of the Financial Times, the City's own organ, a former investment banker called for moralised markets, while the FT's brainbox-in-chief asked why the arrival of Occupy London Stock Exchange had taken so long.
(3) Unless on the news tomorrow it's revealed that there's been a freaky "criminal creating" chemical leak in London and Manchester and Liverpool and Birmingham that's causing young people to spontaneously and simultaneously violate their environments – in which case we can park the ol' brainboxes, stop worrying and get on with the football season, but I suspect there hasn't – we have, as human beings, got a few things to consider together.
(4) The actress was a paragon of principle, a hugely talented brainbox who happened to be both bombshell and bewitcher, who rewrote the rule book for young Hollywood hot shots.
(5) Jesse Eisenberg has been cast as brainbox baddie Lex Luthor, with Jeremy Irons as Alfred the trusty butler, in the upcoming Superman v Batman film.
(6) It could all be dismissed as the daydreaming of a bicycling brainbox who once voted Green .
(7) If that’s good enough for an ultimate brainbox like him, it’s good enough for the rest of us.
Brainiac
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Andrew Romano, Newsweek How would these eloquent know-it-alls – these brainiacs bent on "speaking truth to stupid" – untangle the knotty threads of information that make actual breaking news so difficult to sort out?
(2) And the assumption that Silicon Valley is bursting with autistic brainiacs has been shown in various studies over recent years to be a vastly overstated misconception.
(3) Once again he assembled his crew, blockbuster brainiacs who are constantly in high demand.
(4) In the past 40 years,” Silberman writes, “some members of this tribe have migrated from the margins of society to the mainstream … The kids formerly ridiculed as nerds and brainiacs have become the architects of our future.” “Before we start, can I ask you a couple of questions?” Silberman says when I Skype him at his home in San Francisco.
(5) Nominees: Jeremy Clarkson - Top Gear, BBC for BBC2 Bruce Parry - Tribe, BBC Wales for BBC2 Digital Channel Programme Award Brainiac 3, Granada for Sky One "Strangely addictive, an infectious show that in its third series shows more imagination and creativity than ever."
(6) We have characterized the function of a new neurogenic locus, brainiac (brn), during oogenesis.