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Looking, as I think Virginia Woolf said (VW might have been calling the kettle beige), like "a sorrowful but brainy horse," she muses, The Nineteenth Century Novel is, aside from its aspects in verisimilitude--depiction of 'realistic' characters caught in the contradictions of ubanising capitalism--an essay in philosophical inquiry.

There are the ambitious Slytherins, the brainy Ravenclaws, the "just and loyal" Hufflepuffs, and the house with all our heroes, Gryffindor, "where dwell the brave at heart.

The WASP gentlemen had been replaced by brainy strivers.

The "New Palestinian Jew ," they said, needed to be physically tougher than the brainy shopkeepers who had been trampled in Europe.

The story of the travails of a brainy single Jewish female in New York is lauded as a "wry modern fable" (Merle Rubin, the Wall Street Journal ) that shows off Ozick's flair for Isaac Bashevis Singer-style magical realism.

The balloonists are adrenalin junkies, but brainy ones.

Most of these were personality cults, led by charismatic trade unionists and brainy theorists: Fieldites, Lovestoneites, Weisbordites, Shermanites, Cochranites, Schactmanites, and Oehlerites.

Pynchon the verbal technician is genius, but Pynchon the humorist is lame indeed and reminds one of a brainy college sophomore who studies joke books to make himself amusing.

Later, when Jack casts off the brainy lifestyle, he becomes a porn addict.

Note also Saramago's detached melancholy, his brainy anti-elitism, his characters who are lovable but archetypal and abstract.

He's raising cash fast and his once-derided brainy folksiness is earning praise.

The film, directed by Roger Michell from a script by Richard Curtis ( Four Weddings and a Funeral , 1994) is a brainy weave of satire and fantasy, it would take a neurosurgeon to unwind its trenchant observations of our celebrity-infatuated culture from its masturbatory, People magazine-worthy pipe dreams.

Walter Kirn, writing in Time , seems a bit gleeful at the fact that "the brainy nature boy has stormed the capital, panicking the languid sophisticates with an unfashionably passionate attack on the dangers of passionlessness," only to later concede that the book is "an arduous read that would test the syntactical skills of a tenured professor.

In The Bone Collector , the wily serial killer leaves clues for the brainy forensics expert, played by Denzel Washington--clues that amount to a forensics jigsaw puzzle.

Something of an entanglement develops between the intelligent, artistically aware young girl and the painter, but the book is in no way a conventional romance, it's "a brainy novel whose passion is ideas" (Richard Eder, the New York Times ).

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