Sentence examples for meager brain from inspiring English sources
I simply love it when staid science furrows its brow, digs deep into the shallow gene pool that is the young, massively entitled, hormonally engorged, eternally baffled college-aged American animal, and attempts to examine his meager brain, draw out something resembling actual substance, evaluate it, quantify it and then claim it as some sort of valuable truism.
The problem with the shift to an on-demand economy is that it's not a fair fight; our meager human brains don't stand a chance when faced with the promise of such instant plenty.
The Atavist's brain trust may have meager credentials as entrepreneurs, but they have deep bona fides in publishing: Mr. Ratliff, the chief executive of The Atavist, is a longtime contributor to Wired magazine; Mr. Thompson is the editor of NewYorker.com; and Mr. Rabb, the chief technology officer, spent much of his professional life designing Web sites for books.
And yet... even with our God's-eye-view of this meager creature, we're not able to make much sense of its "brain". So, tell me where I'm being hasty, but shouldn't this give us pause in leaping beyond a mere 300 neurons all the way to 300 million or 300 billion?
In "Word Wars," which opens today in Manhattan, brains are locked in a more brutal combat, with meager rewards for endless striving.
On his HBO show Last Week Tonight, Oliver attacked these profit-making colleges for their sky-high prices, meager spending on instruction, and deceptive and coercive recruiting tactics, including the enrollment of soldiers who had brain injuries and couldn't even name the courses they'd signed up for.
An anesthesiologist, for example, could apply magnetic pulses to a patient's brain every few seconds and instantly see whether it responded with the rich complexity of consciousness or the meager patterns of unconsciousness.
Meager food stocks disappear.
