(a.) Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I'm a huge supporter of Bradley Manning ... but what Snowden did is even more important as we are all directly involved," Westwood said, speaking at a Cannes session as a guest of agency Sapient Nitro to promote her brand of storytelling and campaigning.
(2) Meanwhile March’s Chappie is District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s return to the streets of metropolitan South Africa in the company of a Short Circuit-style sapient robot and Die Antwoord members Yolandi and Ninja.
(3) But in this instance the advances alone in the rendering of realistic sapient apes and resulting fascination with these sci-fi versions of our closest relations made the experience unmissable.
(4) "But they were sapient people as well – that is probably the implication of the last decade of results."
Savant
Definition:
(a.) A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.
Example Sentences:
(1) By this benchmark, there were a large number of idiot savants on show: not least among them the prime minister who appeared a great deal more confused about his position than he had a week ago.
(2) The three experiments described aimed to establish whether the achievements of idiot savant calendrical calculators were based solely on rote memory and arithmetical procedures, or whether these subjects also used rule-based strategies.
(3) It may be this rather than autism itself which is relevant to the idiot savant phenomenon.
(4) It was concluded that idiot savant calendrical calculators can use rule-based strategies to aid them in the calculation of the days on which past and future dates fall.
(5) The relationship of the autistic child and the adolescent idiot savant is discussed and brief reference made to the patient's method.
(6) For many centuries a host of naturalists, savants, physicians and veterinarians have tried to unravel the etiology of scabies in humans and animals and to discover effective remedies to control it.
(7) Answers by caretakers to a questionnaire on these topics revealed that autistic and nonautistic savants resembled each other closely in preoccupation but differed from controls matched for IQ and diagnosis.
(8) 'Idiots-savants' are people of low intelligence who have one or two outstanding talents such as calendrical calculation, drawing or musical performance.
(9) Bell attended the City College of New York, and drew close to such personal allies of his later years as the future neoconservative savant Irving Kristol .
(10) However, between normal and mentally handicapped populations and even within the idiot savant group, general cognitive capacity plays some part in determining the manner in which talents manifest themselves.
(11) But analysts such as Silver, a man dubbed an oracle , a soothsayer and a savant have an interest in continuing to share these predictions.
(12) Down to earth is not something you could accuse Alfred Jensen of, with his dazzling cosmological diagrams; or George Widener, described as a time traveller and calendar savant, who explores numerical patterns in the calendar over thousands of years; or Paul Laffoley – described by Rugoff as "the alternative Leonardo da Vinci" – whose work explores all sorts of things including communicating with intelligences in other dimensions.
(13) The jury was hung on this alternative charge in relation to Savant, Khan and Zaman, and the Crown Prosecution Service will have to decide whether to proceed with a third trial.
(14) It is concluded that the young calculators have already inferred rules about calendrical structure and that their performance cannot be accounted for by practice alone, but these savants use cognitive strategies to aid their performance.
(15) The accuracy and the artistic merit of drawings produced by graphically gifted idiot-savants and by artistically able normal children were investigated in various conditions.
(16) said Darold Treffert, former president of the Wisconsin Medical Society, a psychiatrist at St Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac and an expert in savant syndrome.
(17) It is concluded that independent of diagnosis, preoccupations and repetitive behaviour appear to be closely associated with the manifestation of idiot-savant talents.
(18) Idiot savant special abilities can neither be regarded as the sole consequence of practice and training, nor are such skills based only on an efficient rote memory.
(19) Instead, idiots savants use strategies which are founded on the deduction and application of rules governing the material upon which their special ability operates.
(20) Unlike most, the music industry's tech savant can smile knowing which side he is likely to end up on.