Savants

The other amazing thing about these political savants is how they never actually specify what form this “fighting like hell” will take. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The color ordering systems I have presented show how certain savants used their understanding of the sciences and of art to emphasize different physical forms or highlight different underlying theories. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Steve Silberman, who wrote a brilliant piece on geeks and autism in Wired a couple years back, has a great long feature in the current issue about autistic "savants" -- people who have an instinctive, brilliant grasp of some abstruse task, such as music or math. ❋ Unknown (2003)

To this end, he had brought with him more than 150 so-called savants -- engineers, artists, cartographers, physicists and zoologists -- whose much-celebrated scientific and archaeological discoveries would help to redeem the expedition in the eyes of posterity. ❋ Mark Molesky (2008)

The result of centuries of arcane developments in the deepest bowels of derro civilizations, the savants were the only dwarves who had the unusual ability to cast very powerful spells, ones capable of levitating large objects or even call - ing down storms of ice. ❋ Kirchoff, Mary (2003)

Idiots with Ph. Ds. Idiots of a rather specialized genus, whom I call savants idiots, of whom the former Fed chairman is perhaps the most visible and emblematic example " ❋ Unknown (2008)

But these so-called savants around him merely noted that few books and articles were available, and proceeded to forget all about the subject. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1955)

This go `round, after taking a few scientist "savants" on a tour of the seedy side of Paris for some illicit womanizing and gambling ends up in front of Napoleon and tasked with finding an ancient weapon rumored to have the power to burn naval fleets. ❋ Kev (2010)

A remarkable story about the "savants" Napoleon brought along with him into Egypt. ❋ James Gurney (2009)

Why is that these teenage "savants" are almost always conservative? ❋ Kiva Oraibi (2005)

To these were added five "savants": Professor Chetien Smith, a Norwegian botanist and geologist (died); Mr. Cranch, collector of objects of natural history (died); Mr. Tudor, comparative anatomist ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

Within hours of the administration's announcement of its boycott of Durban II, one of the "savants" at the American Thinker declared, ❋ Unknown (2009)

When Bonaparte undertook the conquest of Egypt in 1798-from personal ambition, and because those then governing France wanted to get him out of the country (he would return to stage his coup d'état the following year) - Denon was offered a place as chronicler, one of a number of "savants" sent to explore and create a record of this great if implausible and somewhat disastrous expedition. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Within hours of the administration's announcement of its boycott of Durban II, one of the "savants" at the American Thinker declared, "Too late, Mr. President. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I’m banking on the puzzle aspect over FPS, and unless they’ve got some kind of savants working in the puzzle development dept, thats a guaranteed suckfest for anyone who’s even remotely into video games (remember, it’s not canon, so nothing you do in the game will have any relevance or progress the mythos of Lost at all). ❋ Unknown (2007)