(1) In another time, a pushy, brainy young Norman made his way to Europe's art metropolis: Poussin would make Rome his base until his death 41 years later in 1665.
(2) As members of Bright Young Things (BYT), a tuition agency that specialises in brainy, mainly Oxbridge, graduates, they command up to £70 an hour.
(3) And whoever was education secretary, though always less attractive and sometimes less brainy than the celebrating girls, would be sure to be grinning all over our television screens, claiming the results as a great vindication for him or herself and the government's policies.
(4) Every pub draws the audience it deserves, and Bar Fringe's crowd is an unlikely mix of hairy bikers, bohemian folk, gnarled beer-tickers and brainy students, who leave mystifying, maths-related graffiti in the toilets.
(5) New findings from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission reveal that less academically able children from richer families are 35% more likely to become high earners than their brainy but broke peers.
(6) I love his braininess – his real new career is as an academic economist at Harvard – and his willingness to be a prat in public and the way he and Cooper seem to have worked out how to be a political couple as well as parents.
(7) It is remarkable that the suggestions at the press conference for "direct finance", and for replacing the electronic cash that Threadneedle Street magics up for the banks with "helicopter money" dumped on ordinary citizens, came from the brainy high priests of financial journalism.
(8) Brainy games Concept A game modelled on 20 questions probably shouldn’t be this much fun.
(9) Only time will tell if Žižek is serious about becoming utterly serious, but if he devotes the rest of his brilliant, brainy, slightly bonkers, utterly singular life to Hegel, and Hegel alone, it will be a great gain for pure philosophy and a great loss to radical, risk-taking political theory.
(10) It was the day Miliband's private qualities at last turned into public strengths: not just brainy but funny, likable and an unashamed egalitarian to the core of his being.
(11) David Miliband was deemed "too brainy", Alan Johnson had a "lack of killer instinct" and Harriet Harman was a "policy lightweight but an adept interparty operator".
(12) Although early reviews were mixed, it gave voice to a generation of brainy and disaffected young people, becoming almost a founding myth for an emerging cultural character, the teenager.
(13) Laura Jacobs, New Criterion, 1999 "Forget the theories and watch the movement … That is often the best advice for looking at William Forsythe's brainy, off-center choreography" Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times, 2001 Do say "Do you Derrida or De Man?
(14) A brainy type (he eats Marcel Duchamp, Octavio Paz and Jean Cocteau for breakfast), some of his literary leanings seep into his lyrics, but it's more implied than spelt out.
(15) He was terrifyingly young, very brainy, could discourse knowledgeably about things you would forgive him for being ignorant about.
(16) I never think of Blackadder in the way the Mail puts it, as "increasingly gutless", but rather as a brainy chap with a healthy suspicion of those who would yield up his life for pointless sacrifice.
(17) People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.” Klein admits that even with her reputation for producing brainy economic analysis, and a crack research team to which she gives generous credit in the book and in conversation, it took three years of “marinating” in the material.
(18) You expect him to be quite plain-speaking, quite academic and quite brainy, but actually you can have a laugh with Stephen Hawking .
(19) The book is part memoir, part cultural history and part scientific journey around women's sexuality, the best elements of which illuminate how little women generally know about their own anatomy – a kind of brainy sex manual – the worst of which founders on the kind of academic jargon Wolf is fond of, and that has to be squeezed hard to elicit much meaning.
(20) He has used these for loads of mental brainy things, but I used them for picking colours and in fact still do.
Heady
Definition:
(a.) Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.
(a.) Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.
(a.) Violent; impetuous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britons certainly divided over that strange, heady Diana week in 1997 and again over how to mark the millennium.
(2) But the continued uncertainty over those two World Cups adds a heady new dynamic to the mix and makes that ever more unlikely even at this early stage.
(3) They included Lena Heady (Queen Cersei Lannister), Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Conleth Hill (Lord Varys), Rose Leslie (Ygritte), 17-year-old Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) and 18-year-old Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark).
(4) Primark’s heady pace of expansion has bolstered ABF, which is grappling with lower sugar prices that have reduced profits in its core business.
(5) The cash-strapped firm, which used to be owned by the US private equity group Blackstone, emerged with some 750 homes and 31,000 residents after a period of heady growth over the last decade.
(6) Involves a heady mix of patriotism, folksy childhood memories, at least four moving montage packages and tears.
(7) Pony trekking in Glenshiel Think soft velvety noses, shaggy mains, the heady smell of saddle soap and the reassuring squeak of leather as you saddle up for a trek into the mountains on a sturdy, sure-footed Highland pony.
(8) Oxfam's Lucy Brinicombe is blogging for the Guardian from Cancún, and here's a bit of her first post : There's an air of uncertainty here, of controlled hope mixed with a hefty dose of pragmatism compared with the heady days before last year's UN climate talks in Copenhagen, where a deadline to secure a fair, safe and legally binding climate deal came – and went.
(9) Whatever the precise facts, a heady cocktail of gender, religion and alleged terrorism feeds into the story of the "white widow", making it likely to provide fodder for tabloid front pages for some time to come.
(10) The decision to shoot in monochrome, which is all too often linked to a photographic nostalgia for the heady days of reportage, is fully justified here.
(11) While white Washington experienced a heady construction and property boom, the population of the District fell from over 700,000 to half a million, while the metropolitan area, with its ring of white suburbs, became one of the wealthiest areas in the US.
(12) Even their characteristic aroma - a heady mix of singed rubber, day-old sweat, urine and Gauloise smoke - has a certain appeal.
(13) Cast your mind back to the heady days after the 1997 election.
(14) A mid an abundance of food and drink, flickering candles and a heady air of altered states,100 or so people in north London’s New Unity church watched John, a mop-haired Irishman in his late 20s, tell the story of how he learned to love through therapy, poetry and ayahuasca.
(15) "Add in ultra-low interest rates, together with the fact that not only is London outside the eurozone but the pound is weak, and you have the perfect ingredients for that heady cocktail – the safe haven investment."
(16) Those heady days may be over (if sentimentally recalled by every retailer in these communities) but cross-border shopping remains a vital source of investment for towns such as Strabane, in the west, where unemployment has historically been among the highest in the UK.
(17) In all the heady talk about changing the constitution to enshrine social rights and find a place for Catalonia, however, it is easy to lose sight of the everyday priorities of many Spaniards.
(18) With its heady media mix of graphic violence and utopian idylls, Isis has sought recruits and supporters who are further down the path toward ideological radicalisation or more inclined by personal disposition toward violence.
(19) The other reaction in South Africa has been one of apathy, partly because all attention is on Mandela, partly because excitement about Obama in Africa has waned since the heady days of 2008.
(20) In 2010 there was nothing much to lighten the hearts of those who had flocked to vote for us in the heady days of 13 years ago.