Sentence examples for as idiot from inspiring English sources

In those days his condition was known as "idiot savant" and considered best treated in mental institutions.

Eventually, such systems could offer a replacement for the vague dashboard warnings often referred to as idiot lights, and even provide a useful diagnosis for the driver.

Amanda Bergman is a singer-songwriter who performs as Idiot Wind (and is, incidentally, the ex-wife of the Tallest Man on Earth).

Participants address each other as "idiot" and "moron" (and worse) the way correspondents of old might have used "sir" or "madam".

Therefore, individuals who are chess prodigies or "lightning calculators" (those who have a remarkable memory for figures) but who are otherwise mentally or developmentally disabled (such as "idiot savants") are not prodigies.

Dean Burnett discusses, among other things, the brain and addiction in his book The Idiot Brain, soon to be released in the USA on July 26th as "Idiot Brain: what your head is really up to".

Unfotunately, Zorin's installation process is not as idiot-proof as those baked into Ubuntu and LinuxMint.

He winces when recalling what he recognizes in hindsight as his first experience of self-as-idiot: the time he publicly chewed out the piano player for arriving late for rehearsals.

Portable defibrillators, sometimes described as "idiot-proof," will not deliver a shock for any condition other than ventricular fibrillation, because shocking a healthy person or someone with another type of heart problem could be dangerous or even fatal.

In the early days of nuclear power, the machines were billed by some proponents as idiot-proof; in fact, at Three Mile Island, which experienced a meltdown in March 1979, the plant might have done better had the operators done less.

Concisely, I'm accused of dismissing genre readers as idiots.