Hall wrote, "The German savants saw little further to interest them in the case".
Napoleon's savants had little success in interpreting Western culture to the traditionalist ʿulamāʾ of Cairo; their achievement was rather to unveil Egypt to Europe.
Meanwhile, Weather Channel savants are tweeting incessantly, warning America about every little quirk of the storm.
This he does with the eye of a curious traveler; he's a man who sees this colorful cast of academic climbers, corporate suits, English seed-huggers and Indian firebrands as a giant circus of savants -- folks so intent on their own little world of passionate specifics that time and time again they fail to see the larger and more important picture.
There was some touch of the idiot savant about DiMaggio; he had a genius for the game and little else besides making money -- which was a form of scoring -- since he was too cheap to enjoy the dough.
The mouthy young street poet handle, part baby Billy Bragg, part apprentice Pete Doherty, fits Treays a little less well now that he is a grown man, rather than an urchin savant who sang Sheila and Sticks 'n' Stones.
In other words, there is very little evidence of autistic characters being featured in prominent, mainstream roles unless they possess savant abilities.
So with her rebellion-prone company of actors, she sets out to portray her experiences as a 19-year-old patient at an allergy clinic in Chicago and as a little girl in a racially mixed neighborhood where her mother -- a sort of "housewife savant," she says -- reigned as a civic organizer.
My little brother Guy took a computer programming class recently, and complained that programming is like telling an idiot savant how to do simple things: You need to spell out every step precisely, but you need not worry that a step will be missed or performed incorrectly.
I started coding when I was in fourth grade and because one of the kids in my carpool was just a savant coder and my mom needed some way to keep me occupied, so she would pay him a little bit to come teach me code.
