Sentence examples for wacky inventor from inspiring English sources

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But it is impossible to imagine its wacky inventor, Kary Mullis, who accepted the Nobel prize dressed in a surfer's drysuit, flourishing in the stuffy constraints of Roche's Basle headquarters.

One of the family's five brothers is a wacky inventor who keeps blowing things up in his basement laboratory; another is a world-famous concert pianist and compulsive womanizer; a third is a celebrated cantor and a man of deep religious convictions; a fourth is a mountebank who ran off to America to join a Wild West show and has now come back home with his horses.

Further choice is offered by the opportunity to work either in-house, as part of a dedicated patent department within a large company, or in private practice where you will advise a whole range of clients from the proverbial "wacky inventor" to multinational blue chip companies.

He played the head of a vampire gang in the satirical 1987 film "The Lost Boys" and a wacky inventor in 1975's "The Great Waldo Pepper".

Wayne Szalinski is a wacky inventor who accidentally shrinks the kids with a ray gun and takes them out with the trash.

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Developed by the wacky inventors at Evil Mad Science, the Egg-Bot will draw repetitive geometric shapes on any round of egg shaped surface.

Amid a lot of high-level debate about economics, Summer Davos mixed in a few just wacky mad-scientist-like inventors.

Ken Hakuta Ken Hakuta is often described as the "inventor" of the novelty item Wacky WallWalker, though his own press materials make the lesser claim that he merely "introduced" that now-forgotten fad to the United States.

And nowadays, from car to kitchen, from office to driving range, there is a profusion of gadgets that harness the latest micro technologies and the wackiest thinking of garage inventors.

Budding inventors can take heart knowing that however wacky or extreme their idea might be, there's probably someone who's invented something far more ridiculous already and probably stuck a ukulele on it, too, for good measure.

Diarmuid Gavin's wacky Harrods British Eccentrics garden draws on Heath Robinson and other British inventors with its rotating topiary and bobbing box-tree balls.

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