eurekas

Instead, we get magazine pages full of short and trite pastiches of breathtaking vistas, italicized delicacies, and instantaneous eurekas.

Joshuah Bearman: Travels with Wells Tower, or Another Reason Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers 2009

The final chapter crams in an unseemly number of epigrams from other people, often applied to subjects they weren't talking about, and it gave me the off-putting impression of a text written by one of those motivational speakers, or by a teacher so insecure or limited in her own eurekas that she must reference and apply the wisdom of others.

After Reading Susan Strasberg 2008

We tend to love anecdotes about apples and eurekas because they make scientific genius seem more human and more random, but that other great Cambridge denizen Sir Leslie Stephen was closer to the mark when he claimed genius was “the capacity for taking trouble.”

Flaws of Gravity Hitchens, Christopher 2008

The final chapter crams in an unseemly number of epigrams from other people, often applied to subjects they weren't talking about, and it gave me the off-putting impression of a text written by one of those motivational speakers, or by a teacher so insecure or limited in her own eurekas that she must reference and apply the wisdom of others.

Archive 2008-12-14 2008

But it's only now that I have confirmed for myself this spatial relationship between the two films, and I'm glad to have an additional venue like Video WatchBlog, where I can share these eurekas with like-minded folk immediately.

Believe In What You Think You See 2007

There were no sweeping brushstrokes from a fevered hand, no electrifying eurekas.

Fine Art Friday M-mv 2007

There were no sweeping brushstrokes from a fevered hand, no electrifying eurekas.

Archive 2007-06-01 M-mv 2007

But it's only now that I have confirmed for myself this spatial relationship between the two films, and I'm glad to have an additional venue like Video WatchBlog, where I can share these eurekas with like-minded folk immediately.

Archive 2007-09-16 2007

In my past years as a Dubbing Detective a sideline to my work as a Video Watchdog, I've had a couple of other interesting eurekas along these lines.

Dubs Come Unexpectedly! 2006

In my past years as a Dubbing Detective a sideline to my work as a Video Watchdog, I've had a couple of other interesting eurekas along these lines.

Archive 2006-08-06 2006