brain-busting

"You could also call them up to help settle bar bets," brain-busting questions usually involving sports.

Mysterium was not designed as a brain-busting strategy exercise but as a group experience.

Calm and collected throughout, she beat out eight other finalists in the nerve-wracking, brain-busting competition.

Its been a faster, more brain-busting ride than ever could be devised by the Brandywine Carnival.

Bruce Lee pioneered a hard-hitting, masculine flamboyance with his stylized, brain-busting ballet.

It was as hot as the coin had been, and the numbing cold was replaced with a sudden sense of brain-busting triumph.

More brain-busting the- ory?

Why should I be upset because you don't want to spend another eight-to-ten years in brain-busting study for the privilege of answering to panels of political appointees?

They were devastators of their own communities with gunfights and robberies and rapes, and the merchandising of brain-busting chemicals and on and on.

We love a good scandal, and there’s no shortage of it to be had at the minute, from the brain-busting rigging of Libor rates to the bed-hopping of Premiership footballers.

Wired's Steven Levy explored the brain-busting techniques used to create the codes, involving letter substitutions, intentional misspellings, and jumbled letters that can only be un-jumbled with complex mathematical formulas.

Until my brother and his wife showed up from New Gloucester, I actually did study - half caught up on my sociology, and slogged through forty pages of geology, all in three brain-busting hours.

This was the late '90s, early 2000s; Johnny Mnemonic and the Nintendo Virtual Boy had already come and gone, and VR had moved from brain-busting sci-fi concept to schlocky punch line to faded cultural footnote.

Surely his brother could not have shot the guy from across the street, a crooked cop, yes, but also the guy who had once told Gary Ripton to try throwing a baseball with his fingers across the seams instead of lying along them . . . and who had then demonstrated by throwing a brain-busting rainbow change.