braininess

It's true, braininess has never been Americans' most popular trait.

Both the braininess and the stylistic nostalgia that I remembered were there.

It had a lot of energy and braininess.

The producers value braininess over style, and sometimes the programs can be downright fusty.

George's new braininess soon attracts the interest of big-city scientists, who are amazed by his talents.

Modest Mouse, a trio all hopped up on its own anxious braininess, is one recent winner.

But now - this being after - the vibrant braininess and earnest humanity of "Life 360" also feel like a salve.

Albert Einstein, for instance, epitomizes pure braininess, often as a figure of ridicule.

As dry as this sounds on paper, it all comes to life through her combination of braininess and puckishness.

Mr. Goldin said his reputation for braininess might have hurt him.

And don't forget the play's crucial element: braininess.

Such an outlook may have had its origins in Feynman's boyhood fear of being thought a "sissy" for his braininess.

This is another way of saying that we need some good way of defining exactly what we mean by true braininess.

When did 'braininess' become a laughing matter?

In any case, here is Othello and Iago in one, with none of the latter's braininess.

I liked her braininess.

Schmidt's bitter wit, shot through with insecurity and self-conscious braininess, calls to mind Lorrie Moore, but her voice isn't derivative.

A Texas newspaper praised Sparks' "braininess" and called him "one of the greatest all-around gridironers that has flashed into view in many years."

Athena becomes the goddessgirl of wisdom at Mount Olympus due to her "braininess" and wisdom.

FOR reasons that perhaps only an Einstein could explain, the minds of Madison Avenue have been fixating on braininess.

Radiating braininess, Ms. Harris's Hedda has good reason to expect ennui to be a way of life.

Other scholars tend to acknowledge de Garis's technical savvy, but some fault him for emphasizing size, for seeing bigness as braininess.

For all Mr. Frayn's braininess and versatility, it is this 1982 theater piece, recently mauled in a movie version, for which he remains best known.

It is another thing to be convinced that you can figure them out by simply looking harder and longer, tracing, retracing and reveling in their amazing visual braininess.

The corpus delicti was once Jennifer Rockwell, who was both bodacious gorgeousness personified and the essence of braininess, an astrophysicist, in her day job.