What's the difference between brainy and intellectually?
Brainy
Definition:
(a.) Having an active or vigorous mind.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Intellectually
Definition:
(adv.) In an intellectual manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(2) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
(3) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
(4) A lower than normal percentage of REM sleep in these patients was consistent with their retarded intellectual development, which supports current thinking that REM sleep may be a sensitive index of brain function integrity.
(5) The selected students had normal intellectual capacity but often showed inadequate progress in school, attentive-mnemonic deficiencies, and psychopathological elements of a depressive nature.
(6) The crucial issue of whether subtle behavioral, intellectual, and developmental impairment occurs in young children, as a result of lead-induced CNS damage is discussed in detail.
(7) The authors conducted the course together and an atmosphere of intellectual honesty was developed through open discussion between faculty and students.
(8) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(9) He was never an intellectual; at Oxford, he did no work, and was proudest of playing squash and cricket for the university, though against Cambridge at Lord's he failed to take a wicket and made a duck.
(10) It’s the failure of an over-centralised prime ministerial office, too small to have real intellectual and research heft yet arrogant enough to overrule FCO advisers.
(11) The wealth of new information on BBM transport of Pi which has accumulated in recent years gives an indication of the importance and intellectual challenge that the mechanism of this process poses to investigators.
(12) He also raised questions about whether the corporation’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide , could better exploit its intellectual property.
(13) Specific features of cognitive impairment distinguished the four groups of patients once they were matched for level of intellectual deterioration.
(14) Memory is one of the central intellectual functions characteristic of human behavior.
(15) The hypothesis that a measure of intellectual speed assessed at one point in time would predict intellectual achievement at a later point in time was evaluated with a time-lagged cross-correlational analysis, an application of causal modeling techniques.
(16) He was a lateral and fearless thinker for whom the presentation of ideas was like a game of intellectual charades, with a few clues as to the meaning of the work thrown in every now and again.
(17) "But it proves how deep this patriarchal culture is in our minds that even intellectual people were so happy to say, 'Ah, there is a man!'
(18) During the winter term, at rest an increase in the amplitude of the first seismocardiographic complex and a decrease in the amplitude of the second one are observed in most of the students, that is, probably, connected with the emotional and intellectual factors of the session period.
(19) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
(20) To evaluate the generality of this proposition we studied procedural learning on three different tasks in an amnesic patient who displayed no signs of intellectual deterioration including problem-solving difficulty.