I wished the ending had been unpacked a bit, but I also know that MacLeod sometimes expects a bit of brain-work from his readers. ❋ Nwhyte (2009)
People come to work—not to sew clothing or to build locomotives, as they did in the past, but to do brain-work. ❋ Witold Rybczynski (2010)
And in line with this fetish, I loveTV programmes that are so very cliched or an obvious and cynical attempt to draw on the success of another, similar project that they are little more than enjoyable pastiches, marrying the best qualities oftheir competitors and predecessors, but making sure no actual brain-work went into their formation. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I run ads from time to time for positions that require serious brain-work, but the only candidates that show up for the jobs are Chinese, Indians, and Russians. ❋ Richard Nokes (2006)
They could make as much or more for the glory of the country; they could be at any rate of infinitely greater service, but they would not be received, simply because they would compel close attention and brain-work in the reader as well as in the writer of them. ❋ Unknown (2007)
To read History involves not only some permanent interest in things not immediately sensible, but also some permanent brain-work in the reader; for as one reads history one cannot, if one is an intelligent being, forbear perpetually to contrast the lessons it teaches with the received opinions of our time. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He is exhausted, I say, by too much brain-work, by irregular courses, and by the repeated use of too powerful stimulants. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It would be well for all of the genus irritabile thus to add something of skilled labour to intangible brain-work. ❋ Unknown (2005)
It was too much brain-work, and was too productive of anxiety to keep him in order. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
“You will not give me anything to eat because my hands have not the appearance of being toil-hardened, but you must understand that it is much harder to do brain-work, and sometimes the head feels like bursting with the effort it is forced to make.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
American girls would break down under the brain-work that any University course for men, in our country, imposes. ❋ Anna Callender Brackett (N/A)
Should we not have expected to find in these children of nature, these women who had spent their lives in idleness, undisturbed by any brain-work, at least, finely developed forms? ❋ Anna Callender Brackett (N/A)
Dr. Clarke speaks, to whom the regularity which must be observed in a large school, but, most of all, the stimulus of systematic brain-work upon the body, has proved most sanitary. ❋ Anna Callender Brackett (N/A)
The oft repeated words have led me to watch my pupils in this respect carefully, and to study shoes and their effects, as among the evils which certainly ought not to be charged to brain-work, _per se_, nor to our school system, in general. ❋ Anna Callender Brackett (N/A)
I have a friend, an old pupil, a truly intellectual woman, who has not broken down under much more brain-work, since she left school, than she ever performed in school. ❋ Anna Callender Brackett (N/A)
Among Americans, all hand-work is constantly being transmuted into brain-work; the intellect gains, but the body suffers, and needs some other form of physical activity to restore the equilibrium. ❋ Various (N/A)
Brain-workers need really to be better fed even than those who work with their hands, because brain-work is exceedingly exhausting. ❋ Various (N/A)
Heig was [getting some] [good brain] work from that [3 O'Clock throw back].
That bitch gives some good brain work ❋ Adam DeVore (2006)
Ah damn I [dropped] another [plate], I've got a bad case of [work brain]. ❋ CoffeeBean2 (2023)
Dude, Smith is just sitting at his [desk drooling] and is [not responding] to anyone, He totaly has BDWD ([Brain Dead] Work Disorder) ❋ Flynbrian (2009)
Teacher: " [what is] [3x]*9g/7^r.33333333333333333333"
You: [Shut up, my one brain cell is working very hard right now]!!! ❋ Greencreeper244 (2018)
