It is indeed something that demands serious cerebral exercise, not just a knee-jerk reaction to money being waved in our faces.

A French meal is a cerebral exercise, a nibble-by-nibble lesson in Cartesian balance.

That kind of preparation is a very cerebral intellectual exercise, and I think acting should be more visceral.

Anticipation of the cerebral exercise involved, the challenge, filled him with keen anticipation.

Why is all this important other than as a cerebral exercise?

Then again, Williams was a longtime coach for Atlanta in the Strategic League, so you would expect him to be up for such cerebral exercises.

Brickman found it "nondramatic and ultimately uninteresting, a kind of cerebral exercise."

But it's a mistake to see him as a sort of statuesque, cerebral academic exercise.

Controlled and planned, the work is a cerebral exercise.

He liked the planning part of any assignment, considered it a "cerebral exercise."