(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.
Thick
Definition:
(superl.) Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid body; as, a timber seven inches thick.
(superl.) Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck.
(superl.) Dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. Also used figuratively; as, thick darkness.
(superl.) Not transparent or clear; hence, turbid, muddy, or misty; as, the water of a river is apt to be thick after a rain.
(superl.) Abundant, close, or crowded in space; closely set; following in quick succession; frequently recurring.
(superl.) Not having due distinction of syllables, or good articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance.
(superl.) Deep; profound; as, thick sleep.
(superl.) Dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing.
(superl.) Intimate; very friendly; familiar.
(n.) The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest.
(n.) A thicket; as, gloomy thicks.
(adv.) Frequently; fast; quick.
(adv.) Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown.
(adv.) To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure.
(v. t. & i.) To thicken.
Example Sentences:
(1) The variation in thickness of the LLFL may modulate the species causing damage to the cells below it.
(2) An increase in membrane thickness was observed on phosphorylation.
(3) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(4) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(5) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(6) Grafts of intermediate thickness (M III) showed excellent clinical healing of the donor and the recipient site.
(7) At 7 days axonal swellings were infrequently observed and the main structural feature was a reduction in myelin thickness in affected nerve fibers.
(8) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(9) The NAD-dependent enzymes (except alpha-GPDH) showed a stronger reactivity in the proximal tubules, while the NADP-dependent ones were more reactive in the thick limb of Henle's loop and distal convoluted tubules.
(10) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
(11) These early hyperplastic lesions revealed stellate-shaped dilated bile canaliculi lined by blebs and abnormally thick elongated microvilli, a decreased number of microvilli on the sinusoidal surface, a marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, large nucleoli, and bundles of pericanalicular microfilaments.
(12) The degree of overlap varies with the thickness of the arborization and is in the order of 1-2 mu.
(13) The spatial resolution of a NaI(T1), 25 mm thick bar detector designed for use in positron emission tomography has been studied.
(14) In the longitudinal direction, however, spatial resolution of under slice thickness could not be obtained.
(15) Thus, multiparae had very thick border zones composed predominantly of large nodules and, additionally, of vacuolated cells and fibrous tissue.
(16) The thickness of the media in the groups behaves like the number of nuclei: in hypertension with the highest values, there is no significant decrease as far as the 8th cross-section, while in the coronary sclerosis and third decade groups the values come closer together after the 6th cross-section.
(17) A model for left ventricular diastolic mechanics is formulated that takes into account noneligible wall thickness, incompressibility, finite deformation, nonlinear elastic effects, and the known fiber architecture of the ventricular wall.
(18) These force-generators are identified with projections (cross-bridges) on the thick filament, each consisting of part of a myosin molecule.
(19) Piretanide blocks the Na+ 2Cl- K+ cotransporter protein in the thick ascending limb (TAL) of the loop of Henle reversibly.
(20) Dioptric aniseikonia was calculated between 1 month and 24 months after surgery (with Gruber's and Huber's computer program) on the basis of most recently obtained values (bulb axis length, depth of the anterior chamber, lens thickness, necessary refraction), and compared with subjective measurements taken with the phase difference haploscope.