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And as we get farther and farther with our science, we get more and more into a discomforted zone, where we have to acknowledge that the simplistic categories we've had are probably overly simplistic.
So I did what all overly intellectual people do when they have a problem that they want to understand, and I wrote a book.
The gentleman to my left is the very famous, perhaps overly famous, Frank Gehry.
But I think it mostly comes down to overly paternalistic employers.
Growing up in Perth as an overly cerebral kid ... (Laughter) I would always try and act in the way that I thought was rational, reasoning through every decision, trying to figure out the very best action to take.
Overly simplified, I get it, but you see where I'm going.
My dreams are self-conscious and overly apologetic.
I, overly optimistically, had hoped that this crisis was an opportunity for Greece, for Europe, for the world, to make radical democratic transformations in our institutions.
An overly enthusiastic curator had added chicken feathers to it.
So overly sexual, so '70s gay porn.
DHT causes shrinkage in these overly sensitive follicles, making hair shorter and wispier.
But I think it's evidence that women have been socialized to aspire to perfection, and they're overly cautious.
Scientists have theories for what the actual cause is, ranging from spasming blood vessels to overly sensitive nociceptors, but no one knows for sure.
Now when we compare this to our physical universe, it is overly constraining, because our universe is not digital.
So, when the USDA finally acknowledged that it was plants, rather than animals, that made people healthy, they encouraged us, via their overly simplistic food pyramid, to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, along with more carbs.
Here we've combined immersive virtual reality with image processing to simulate the effects of overly strong perceptual predictions on experience.
We've processed the footage using an algorithm based on Google's Deep Dream to simulate the effects of overly strong perceptual predictions.
We did a whole series of scenarios for how the state could grow, and this is just one overly simplified one.
Second one, without sounding overly Zen, and this is a quote from the Buddha: "Finding yourself in the margins, looking to the edges of things, is often a really interesting place to start."
In the overly replete world of Funes there were nothing but details.” Funes’ limitless memory was just one of Borges’s many explorations of infinity.
Today's hyper-anxious youth are not being helped by overly protective parenting.
I didn't want them to be overly threatening or scary.
If you would utilize all areas which have a nice orientation to the sun and they're not overly shaded, the power generated by photovoltaics would correspond to about 30 percent of our total energy demand.
Nothing overly interesting happens (Bix goes out with Carrie, Bix gets Danny out of trouble, Carrie's father drinks a lot, etc.) until about 10 minutes to go in the movie when Carrie is murdered.
Despite the choppy plot, the film is not overly bad until its climax, where its amateurishness runs rampant (terrible editing, overuse of stock footage).
And her friend Nicole is an overly perky freak that screams a lot.And Lola dresses like a hoochie Houdini lady.
The music is really inappropriate, just some "elevator" music, bland and overly optimistic when nothing happens, then slightly less optimistic when shark is around or when children gets depressed (again listens to VERY LOUD elevator music).
However it did start to worry me as it continued, combined with another overly husky Max Payne type voice over the movie was starting to look not so good.
Dull characters, poor acting (artificial emotion), weak story, slow pace, and most important to this films flawed existence-no one cares about the overly dramatic relationship.
i'm not sure why Mike Myers joined but I think the writers were trying to make it sound like him in Austin powers without the swinger talk and it overly succeeded- but so what it was annoying.
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