Mr. Borisy describes it as a "dumb, brute-force, empirical approach" that assumes current knowledge of disease is too limited to predict in advance what combinations might work.
Antagonists have gone from being dumb brutes blindly charging the hero to clever tacticians who can anticipate your movements and collaborate with their fellows.
Jacky, haunted by a gruesome act of violence in his past, huffs and butts through a rogues gallery of gangland Belgium, and Roskam draws a parallel between these dumb brutes and the animals they are farming.
Those writers create heroes who operate under self-designed codes: inarticulate, dumb brutes or stoic brooders who long to give voice to the complex contents of their noble souls but who, alas, are left only to perform their clumsy gestures as if with paws.
With brains as big as ours, Neandertals were no dumb brutes.
Let them show up in November at town hall meetings beating their chests and exposing their party to consist of what Hunter S. Thompson wrote 25 years ago: "Dumb Brutes and Rich People".
"Tricksters are the heroes of servants and slaves, and the disenfranchised in general, who can vicariously participate in the trouncing of some large, dumb, powerful brute by the underdog with quick wits and an inexhaustible bag of tricks".
And though there are plenty of awful Romans, they are dumb sadistic brutes; not so the conniving Jews.
With absolutely no fallback to dumb incorruptible brute-force real-world entities such as steel keys and $50 bills?
Mr. Gilpin's friend, Lee Lord, helped him with the design and construction of the clapboard-sided structure, while his wife, Ann, added touches like a wooden birdhouse under the eaves and a rustic porch railing she assembled form twigs. "I did the stuff that required brute dumb labor," Mr. Gilpin said.
