(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.
Egghead
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "False analogy syndrome", as a philosopher might call it, is the scholastikos's most besetting sin – as in this classic case of advice given by an "egghead doctor": "'Doctor,' says the patient, 'whenever I get up from my sleep, for half an hour I feel dizzy, and then I'm all right.'
(2) It examines the related claims that only children have a less happy youth because they are pressed into adult thinking and behavior too early and that they stand out as "little eggheads"--good at school, but not very sportsmanlike, and unpopular among their peers.
(3) In the New York Post, he branded the admittedly esoteric Daniel Libeskind, the original architect of the Freedom Tower, as "an egghead".
(4) Over the last 12 months shows including Eggheads, The Review Show and the Saturday night National Lottery show In It to Win It have moved to the BBC's new headquarters in Pacific Quay, Glasgow.
(5) Yet for all the elements of an old-fashioned local politician O’Malley displayed – he still seemed ready to tick off economic development projects and was visibly displeased that a gas station owner hadn’t been mowing a stretch of land next to the sidewalk when driving by – there was still an egghead side to him that appeared.
(6) I find her sprawled on a sofa in the sitting room, watching a man from Newcastle answering questions about Peter Shilton on BBC2's early evening quiz show Eggheads.
(7) She made her name as BBC1 and BBC2's controller of "daytime and early peak", backing shows such as Doctors, MasterChef, Eggheads and The Great British Menu.
(8) Come on, people: nothing says "uncool" like the Egghead-in-Chief coaxing a crowd to applaud by saying, "Joe looks cool in those glasses, too, doesn't he?".
(9) My thanks to some egghead on the Fifa website for figuring all that out so that I didn't have to.
(10) The "little egghead" hypothesis was only partly confirmed.
(11) A former senior producer on Panorama and editor of BBC1's 1pm and 6pm news bulletins, Hunt made her name as BBC1 and BBC2's controller of "daytime and early peak", backing shows such as Doctors, MasterChef, Eggheads and The Great British Menu.
(12) And if a few eggheads and hackers get crushed on the way well, that's too bad.
(13) Most of those in the first half of the book, a hundred or so, have as their theme (and victim) a character called in Greek a "scholastikos" – sometimes translated as an "egghead" or "absent-minded professor".