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  • adjective rare tending to think, or inspire thinking

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Examples

  • It’s also worth noting — and maybe this is function four — that longer reviews, at least in thinky mags or publications like the New York Review of Books, are often really freestanding essays that take their subjects as a jumping-off point for a synthetic argument that draws together the ideas from several books.

    “I’ve Read It, Just Not Personally” 2007

  • Shatner is looking wonderfully "thinky" in that triptych.

    The Sexy Lean Fresca 2010

  • You bring up many valid points and make my head all thinky which is good.

    Supernatural: Good God, Y’All - Pink Raygun.com 2009

  • By the way, "A less 'thinky' Voice." has been updated with a few notes on The Village Voice Film Guide: 50 Years of Movies from Classics to Cult Hits.

    GreenCine Daily: Weekend books. 2006

  • Yes, I know this is an odd image, but I Google Imaged "thinky" and this was the first option.

    Thinky vuboq 2006

  • Other Truths is probably the most instantly likable example of the kind of thinky instrumental head-nodders and eye-glazers that Do Make Say Think have been churning out for a decade, but that's not to say that it's the lacks the intensity of it's predecessors.

    The Line Of Best Fit 2009

  • For a whole slew of disparate reasons; in fact, the number of issues raised here just begging for immediate comment - complaints from other New Times papers, for example, that the section that had cultivated a relationship with its readers over half a century was "too 'thinky' and 'dense'" - I want to just briefly add a word about one:

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • This seems like it could turn out to be quite 'thinky', like Tenchu taken to the next level.

    Eurogamer 2009

  • For a whole slew of disparate reasons; in fact, the number of issues raised here just begging for immediate comment - complaints from other New Times papers, for example, that the section that had cultivated a relationship with its readers over half a century was "too 'thinky' and 'dense'" - I want to just briefly add a word about one: "[R] eaders have not surged to the barricades in the paper's defense.

    GreenCine Daily: A less "thinky" Voice. 2006

  • Even the important thinky time stuff makes me feel guilty.

    msagara: Progress report msagara 2009

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