Example sentences for: brainy

How can you use “brainy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The film, directed by Roger Michell from a script by Richard Curtis ( Four Weddings and a Funeral , 1994) is a brainy weave of satire and fantasy; it would take a neurosurgeon to unwind its trenchant observations of our celebrity-infatuated culture from its masturbatory, People magazine-worthy pipe dreams.

  • Pynchon the verbal technician is genius, but Pynchon the humorist is lame indeed and reminds one of a brainy college sophomore who studies joke books to make himself amusing.

  • 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.

  • He's raising cash fast and his once-derided brainy folksiness is earning praise.

  • It's a testament to Norton's utter immersion in the role that he can even halfway connect the dots between this fundamentally sweet, brainy kid and the magnetic, white trash monster who'll haunt our minds long after the movie's liberal pieties fade into static.


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