For all his intelligence and allure, Mr. Brains is a dead man thinking.
To me that's very significant because I remember the first moment that I said, yes, this man is thinking like a president was one of those early debates on the issue of Iraq, and his position being different than the others was significant.
They are looking at the man with the biggest pocket instead of thinking what that man should do for them.
To say Schoener puts more time and investment into his "thinking man's sauvignon blanc, " as Colman calls it, is an understatement.
Bridgestone became known for making the "thinking man's bicycle" because each ad spotlighted a different piece of equipment instead of a racing finish.
Pausing before he answered questions, drawing on a State Express 555 cigarette and talking in tones of measured reasonableness, he came across as the thinking man's soldier.
But his academic pedigree was only one reason he had been regarded as a thinking man's jurist and a highly thoughtful conservative prior to his elevation to the nation's highest bench.
Mr. DOUGLAS BRINKLEY (Editor, Library of America Edition): Their breakthrough came in the late '50s because you started having Marlon Brando and James Dean becoming the new outlaw heroes on the big screen, and there Kerouac broke through as kind of the thinking man's Marlon Brando.
Alvarado fight, " he said, "and I was thinking, man this is a scary sport.
Which turns "The Bourne Ultimatum" into a thinking-man's action film.
Connaughton has done a lot of thinking about the man he became in Washington DC.
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But because he was a very intelligent man, I believe his thinking would have evolved with the times, with changing facts and circumstances, and with our better understanding of economic issues.
Huxley's ability to knock out Hollywood scripts for Greer Garson while still thinking seriously about man's place in the universe (a universe which had been unravelling ever since his grandfather and Darwin had entered the public fray 80 years earlier) has not, by and large, recommended him to posterity.
Mario Monti, by contrast, may be a budding septuagenarian but has shown he is his own man and happy to embrace fresh thinking.
But since riddles and thought experiments rely on imagining impossible realities, by choosing a riddle in the first place, the Rabbi is paradoxically introducing the young man to the value of magical thinking as well.
Bill Gates adopts a clear head posture, most probably because he is a very smart man who spends a lot of time thinking.
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By the end of the session, every man and woman in the room was thinking about changing not only others but also him or herself.
The man is beginning to feel nauseated, thinking about it all.
Timberlake told the New MySpace (a site he co-owns) that he envisioned a few legends when he started thinking about touring with the man who is arguably one of the biggest stars in music.
When the Rabbi reminds his would-be student that the man with the clean face will objectively see a dirty face and therefore wash, he is reminding the young man of the importance of modern objective thinking.
But something about that man and his Whole Foods coffee got me thinking.
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Consider the case of a man in his mid-40s who is thinking about quitting his high-paying job to start his own company.
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For a man whose professional life is now spent largely thinking about horse racing, Peterson came to the sport late, going to the track for the first time 14 years ago.
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Google CEO Larry Page was among the many others to offer a word on the man who is seen as the most forward-thinking CEO of the last few decades.
As beads flew, liquids spilled and bad music thumped, I remember thinking it impossible that an intelligent, generous man with the most refined tastes could ever have called a place like this home.
When you see that happen in your circle of friends or publicly (thanks to the Internet), usually your response includes thinking that the guy has stopped being a man, is overcompensating for something else, and probably should stop crying and get over it.
Ahmed, after first making sure this man wasn't one of the bombing suspects and separately thinking he might be drunk, quickly picked up a phone and called 911.
But when you use some of your famous devastating one-liners about people - for example, of David Mellor, "a man who buried his head in the sand like an ostrich thereby exposing his thinking parts" - was that something that personally felt, was it something that you buffed up beforehand?
While Barack Obama was invoking FDR yesterday, John McCain was thinking about the president who came next, Harry Truman, the modest man from Missouri.
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