Sentence examples for MacGyver from inspiring English sources

Like so many of TV's strategic geniuses, from Don Draper to Francis Underwood, Cromwell was a class jumper: the abused son of a Putney blacksmith, he transformed himself into a worldly man, a sort of internationalist MacGyver.

We've been doing some serious fly-by-night MacGyver magic just to turn the lights back on in the White Zone.

"Both Jeff Bezos and Pierre Omidyar have a hacker's ethos, a willingness to engage in lateral thinking to solve problems in a nonconventional way, to reject what has been taken for granted and MacGyver their way to solutions," suggested Shane Snow, a founder of Contently, a marketplace for content creators.

Then an American physician at another medical camp told us that he had faced a similar situation some days before, and had built his own incubator — "MacGyver" style, as he put it.

"How exactly would someone like you MacGyver a human baby from the ether of sarcasm, Eggo waffles, and dog hair that is your existence?" It's true, I thought.

Minor ingredients are exploited in ingenious ways, like scallions blackened under lamb belly in a pan, dehydrated and crushed into "ash," or pearl onions painted with a caramelized harissa paste, then covered in plastic wrap and steamed, in what Ms. Kornack called "a MacGyver version" of sous-vide.

He called himself "the redneck MacGyver" after the inventive character in the television series of the same name.

Taylor's version of events is wildly "MacGyver -esque — he used a pair of red headphones to tie the uMacGyver -esque and sweet.

On "Invisibilia," seemingly unsolvable problems can have MacGyver-like workarounds — a phenomenon that Miller, on "Radiolab," once described as "when duct tape solves the ethereal sadness".

She began to confer with her studio manager, Mike Barnett, a laconic young man with a MacGyver-like resourcefulness.

"This whole place is about MacGyver-ing it," Mr. Banks said.