Sentence examples for something of a brain from inspiring English sources

Something of a brain boxer, then.

It's something of a brain melt: trying to understand the mechanisms of keeping one's own self in the dark without blowing the ability to do it.

Los Alamos has had persistent problems of management and internal security that have lowered morale and led to something of a brain drain.

Henri Poincaré, a veteran Interpol agent, seems the ideal man to investigate the murder, since he's the great-grandson of the mathematician Jules Henri Poincaré and something of a brain himself.

But in so far as those pretences have taken hold, they've triggered something of a brain drain: Fruitvale Station aside, many of the films listed have heavy British involvement, but are set in the United States (or, in Mandela's case, South Africa).

Peter Morgan's script nods at those not enamoured of all things monarchical, suggesting that underneath the perm there is something of a lefty brain.

At launch, Sense, now live on Kickstarter, will function as something of a digital brain for the connected home, in order to do things like turn on or off the lights, adjust the music or thermostat, and more.

Horror, like comedy, has always been something of a reptilian-brain endeavor, unusual among the arts insofar as it is successful only when it is able to produce a single, audible emotional effect — a scream or a laugh — that is primal, cathartic and difficult to understand.

"Deep inside the skull of every one of us there is something like a brain of a crocodile.

— Carl Sagan, Cosmos p.276 277 "Deep inside the skull of every one of us there is something like a brain of a crocodile.

Trump reportedly resented the popular perception that Bannon was something of a puppeteer, the real brains and power inside the White House.