Sentence examples for idle brain from inspiring English sources

When television is such a mathematical word problem, it hurts the idle brain.

Whether dreams are "touchstones of our characters," as Thoreau wrote, or "children of an idle brain," as Shakespeare suggested, they can tantalize, terrify, delight, sadden, enlighten and baffle.

For me, what lingers is something small, but which, thanks to the terrible combination of an idle brain and the power of music, has become the worst kind of earworm: the hook for a pop song that barely exists.

Gazing from train windows as cities and landscape and other people's lives slide by, daydreaming on long flights when ideas whisper to your idle brain and can be jotted down in your notebook.

You are not Doing Nothing, you are using your "idle brain".

For that fleeting moment, the default mode network stepped in to take over for an idle brain.

Until then, people will be able to sell their idle brains to the companies and people who need the special processing power that they alone possess through marketplaces like Mechanical Turk and ChaCha.

"Idle hands are the devil's workshop" also applies to idle brains and mouths when gossip becomes what you do for a living.

Lack of education means idle brains and morality goes down the drains.

The drug-induced coma, which Mayberg compared to a motor slowed to idle, "enables the brain to recover while it's under this state of reduced metabolism". Some medical experts, however, say drug-induced coma is an experimental treatment with little data behind it.

But whichever way it is, observations like these point to a future in which psychiatrists may be able to diagnose and treat developing and full-blown mental illness by looking at how the brain idles.