It is there in Mike and Sulley; in the anxious Marlin and the brainless Dory, in "Finding Nemo"; in Remy the rat and Linguini the kitchen boy, in "Ratatouille"; in the aging grouch and the tubby little scout, in "Up"; and in Lightning and Mater, the rusty pickup truck, in both servings of "Cars".
He denounces "the brainless people in Washington" and repeatedly calls Mr. Bush "this guy" in a derisory tone.
But I can't stop the angry voice inside my head from pushing back at the dread, explaining over and over to the robo-female voice the many levels of illogic in her comment, and from there, railing at the proliferating danger of brainless certainty in our world.
Along with all the work, the program also allows students a chance to be themselves -- to be proudly brainy or playfully brainless -- in the company of their true intellectual peers.
These were not brainless carnivores, in other words.
It seemed at best like it would be a bawdy, brainless comedy in the manner of the 80s cult favourite Porky's, and at worse its sequel, Porky's Revenge.
She picks up a brainless hunk in a bar for a night of alienated sex and has a protracted affair with a fetishistic sadist who gags her and ties her up.
You couldn't even spin the fisticuffs as "a show of passion" as Djourou managed to get himself sent off for dissent with two brainless bookings in the space of four minutes.
And my colleague Christopher Knight labeled it "brainless amusement" in his review of the experience.
Who better to calm things down than Shahid Afridi, promoted to No3 in wonderfully illogical Pakistani fashion after falling for a brainless golden duck in his last innings against South Africa?
Both writer/directors have managed to rehabilitate actors stuck in brainless studio fare.
