Now, in the days when we were hot stuff we were not regarded as cool or sincere.
One pupil, Tom Whitmore, 15, from Brighton, acknowledged that Big Bang Theory had contributed to his decision, with a number of classmates, to consider physics at A-level, and in causing the subject to be regarded as "cool".
The risk is that the new dual-leadership structure may prove to be unwieldy and could lead to tension between Mr. Ackermann and Mr. Jain, whose relationship is regarded as cool.
Bumbling into the presidency after replacing first VP Spiro Agnew and then Nixon, Ford isn't traditionally regarded as "cool"; Chevy Chase's Saturday Night Live impression of him as a klutz remains basically the only thing we remember him for.
In practice, fission-track dates are regarded as cooling ages unless proved otherwise.
By the time he drove the treacherous I - 95 up and down from Miami on a whim to hang out with his parents, who he generally regards as fairly cool, semi-contemporaries, I had learned to breathe.
Many of the people who currently regard SpoonRocket as cool may drop it if it becomes a national brand.
There are certain cities that regard themselves as cool, and they often take a little more convincing than a city that's a little more easygoing.
Children are always going to regard computers as "cooler" than books, but it's very worrying that one in five youngsters now regards being seen with a book as "embarrassing".
Despite all the acclaim and his ranking at 52 with Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as one of the outstanding British novelists of his generation, he has been regarded as a cool, objective writer who specializes in writing about obsessive behavior.
His work grew less audience-friendly, particularly post-1968, but his centrality in the French new wave, and the influence that movement had on 1970s Hollywood, means he is regarded as unimpeachably cool.
