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Example sentences for: brainy
How can you use “brainy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Later, when Jack casts off the brainy lifestyle, he becomes a porn addict.
Critics praise it for bucking Broadway trends: It is both low-budget and brainy (one of its goals is to mock Enlightenment rationality).
A few stick up for the embattled author, arguing that though "the ideas expressed aren't complicated," Purdy "grapples with them with a seriousness that puts more seasoned--and ironic--commentators to shame" ( Publishers Weekly ). Walter Kirn, writing in Time , seems a bit gleeful at the fact that "the brainy nature boy has stormed the capital, panicking the languid sophisticates with an unfashionably passionate attack on the dangers of passionlessness," only to later concede that the book is "an arduous read that would test the syntactical skills of a tenured professor."
In the last century the Russians, for reasons that no one now seems quite sure of, took the name of a London railway station, Vauxhall, and made it their generic word for all railroad stations: vagzal . In much the same way, the Japanese word for a fashionable cut suit, sebiro , is a corruption of Savile Row . More recently, the French borrowed the English slang words jerk and egghead but gave them largely contrary meanings--namely, an egghead in France is not a brainy person but a dimwit, while jerk is a term of praise for an accomplished dancer--though at least they respect the spellings.
The "New Palestinian Jew ," they said, needed to be physically tougher than the brainy shopkeepers who had been trampled in Europe.
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