Assuming that anyone who disagrees with you is too dim to get your point is not itself a particularly brainy way to win others over to the essential correctness of your views.
Thain was brainy in a way that didn't quite add up to smart.
The world that opens up in "Maybe Forever" is complete and vivid in its own brainy, sometimes unruly way, and almost always satisfying.
"Donahue" has gone out of its way to look brainy, as only a program afraid of being smart can.
And it is possible that someone brainy will think of a way to subvert the current usage of "said no one ever" and move the joke along.
So we got all the brainy stuff [out of the way] during prep for two months, talking, talking, talking, talking, and then by the time we got to the shoot, we could just film.
Over recent months, and with his rating dipping, the call has been for the clever positioning and brainy phrase-making to give way to commitments of substance and a stronger sense of leadership.
In South Carolina this month, he said the country was facing a "choice comparable, I think, to 1860 and it may be comparable in some ways to 1788," a brainy reference, apparently, to the year the Constitution was debated and ratified.
Much of the research on plant intelligence has been inspired by the new science of networks, distributed computing, and swarm behavior, which has demonstrated some of the ways in which remarkably brainy behavior can emerge in the absence of actual brains.
So how does the brainy reputation of TED affect the way you structure a talk?
She has to be brainy but not come across that way.
