(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".
Pundit
Definition:
(n.) A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official.
Example Sentences:
(1) What did surprise pundits was Hollywood's recognition of this unflinching Austrian film about ageing as a candidate for best picture, among such expected contenders as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Ben Affleck's Argo and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables .
(2) Those with no idea of what he looks like might struggle to identify this modest figure as one of the world's most exalted film-makers, or the red devil loathed by rightwing pundits from Michael Gove down.
(3) The cavernous studio will play host to a half-sized football pitch, where pundits will demonstrate what players did or didn't do correctly and there are other technological innovations planned that marry broadband interactivity with live coverage.
(4) It is the sort of malevolent onslaught that has caused many hardened media pundits to quake.
(5) But that’s just false , no matter how many uninformed newly-minted rape pundits claim otherwise.
(6) If Jones does not recover in time, the pundit Gary Lineker has backed Everton's 19-year-old defender John Stones as a potential replacement for England.
(7) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(8) The England coach and Sky Sports pundit Neville believes the £42m summer signing should have been given a rest over Christmas, just as Cristiano Ronaldo was at Manchester United.
(9) Pundits now talk of " the subprime student loan " because often what is being bought through borrowing is not worth the initial fee, let alone the interest on that fee.
(10) Before kick off, incidentally, Independent Television Service pundit Roy Keane was asked whether this might be his kind of match.
(11) Their Portuguese manager, Carlos Quiroz spoke of the team’s readiness to do business – despite pundits writing the team off as the competition’s underdogs.
(12) Bigotry against us is acceptable (and sometimes even politically necessary) for elected officials , candidates for public office , pundits and others to advance their careers – or their television ratings .
(13) Despite buying the company just before the crash, Neil (and many pundits) believes he got a good deal, arguing that economic downturns can be good for entertainment-based businesses.
(14) She booked a well-paying gig as a Fox News pundit, wrote two bestselling books and starred in her own reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, on TLC.
(15) The dour Zenawi could not resist a swipe at western pundits who had once written off Africa.
(16) The other caste – CEOs, industrialists, wealthy professionals, and pundits who abhorred Grillo until the end of last week, are now praising him.
(17) For three decades politicians and pundits have decreed that electoral success can only be achieved on the basis of an establishment corporate orthodoxy they decreed to be "the centre".
(18) Don’t run a project fear campaign, pundits warn, but why not when there is so much to fear in what Brexit Britain would become?
(19) The attack in Peshawar is yet another nail in Pakistan’s coffin, cynical residents and pundits alike will tell you today.
(20) Wise pundits still predict that Trump will drop away as the vote approaches.