Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk to my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. From LearnThat.org. [Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), English logician and philosopher.]
To be sure, a 13 year old, no matter how savant, is not experienced in the ways of the world, and looks like a kid most likely. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Age Discrmination Against Child Prodigy?] Reference
On the other side of the savant was a lively talker. From Wordnik.com. [From a College Window] Reference
As I and Elizabeth making our departures, Lord Sandwich did bid me join him tomorrow night to hear speak a savant of the Royal Society. From Wordnik.com. [A different flesh]
The French "savant," On the other hand, is rarely seen on the Boulevards. From Wordnik.com. [Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life] Reference
An Apple -based "savant" system makes it possible to control each room with an iPhone. From Wordnik.com. [Betting Millions on Spec Homes] Reference
Because he's not very verbal, he's got this rep as kind of savant-ish or all intuitive, and it's so not true. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Norton talks about his new movie 'Stone' and working with Robert De Niro] Reference
I really have no "savant" gems with my disability, I have no special forte in anything, but my attitude is a huge surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
"savant" level - in art, music, mathematics or memory. From Wordnik.com. [R&D Mag - News] Reference
At that instant again came the voice of the savant. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference
This worldly old savant had remained ever faithful to her. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"But is that all you know about it, Goosal?" asked the savant. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference
As any savant can tell you, forgetting is as important as remembering. From Wordnik.com. [Memory] Reference
No savant now denies the transmittable taint of insanity and consumption. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
First, Budget Director Peter Orszag, the calculating numbers savant, bailed. From Wordnik.com. [Danny Schechter: As Economic Team Bails, System Fails To Create Jobs] Reference
Menage was younger, and aspired to be a man of the world as well as a savant. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Frank had studied something of almost everything and imagined himself a savant. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
What the savant had learned in his closet passed more or less into current coin. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Is he a mad genius, silent mastermind or manic savant in need of Ritalin and a nap?. From Wordnik.com. [COMIC-CON 2010: 'iCarly's' JERRY TRAINOR goes 'b-i-g' to voice the new cartoon 'T.U.F.F. Puppy'] Reference
"" All I wanted to do was play hockey and hunt, '' says the 35-year-old inventor savant. From Wordnik.com. [Blading On Thin Ice] Reference
A visual savant, he's willfully inarticulate about his work, incapable of a straight answer. From Wordnik.com. [Mtv's Ruling Vidiot Savant] Reference
Sussex peasant, as to the German savant; but it is not the only unexpected feminine in the county. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Yeasayer's already much-tweaked hit gets electro-fied, courtesy of Canadian bedroom savant Teen Daze. From Wordnik.com. [Singles file: Soundgarden, Taylor Swift, Frightened Rabbit] Reference
Professor, "Tom called back to the savant," you'd better speak to him in his lingo, I can't manage it. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference
Not having seen the youth for a long time, he met him one day at the house of a savant without knowing him. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
She's crafty with words like a savant spider of letters, dancing across paper with inky booties on all eight legs. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Cold Melon] Reference
The following list is arranged according to the views of the Belgian savant, and comprises a few additional illustrations. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
It appears that the susceptible savant lost his heart to his lively pupil, and sighed not only in secret but quite openly. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
But with it they have vilified as well the noble rôle of the philosopher, of the historian, of the savant, and of the artist. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
Fifteen years ago Dustin Hoffman counted matchsticks and played blackjack as a barely functional autistic savant in "Rain Man.". From Wordnik.com. ['Allowed To Be Odd'] Reference
This gallant savant, who was adored in society as "a man of rare and exquisite conversation," has left many traces of himself here. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
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