brainy

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In 1978, the New Yorker called Keaton “one of the most comedically pure and brainy actresses in our midst.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

What do you get for the brainy science lover who seems to know everything?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Sir Stephen Fry lived up to his brainy reputation over breakfast, by predicting the chessboard was back: "I could be a knight - oh, I already am," he joked.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

In a bright, charismatic performance, McCalla’s Elinor brings to life the character’s brainy charm and self-possession.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

But I had a striking sense that if I’d had a son, he would, at the core, be a lot like this brainy, combative oddball sitting in a musty apartment in a small Idaho town.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz