Examples of “brainish” in a Sentence

adj Quick to anger; hot-tempered.

• Brainish men are ambitious and incapable, while discreet men are timid and excessively conservative. — You-sheng Chen, LunYu - Confucian Analects in Chinese & English (2012)

adj Made up entirely by the imagination and not meant seriously.

• The coarsest sensualists are in thrall more to their brainish fantasies than to their carnal appetites. — Michael Curran, Sentences (2013)

adj To do with the mind rather than the body or feelings.

• Brainish discourses talk only with the understanding, they go no further, because they rise no deeper then from the understanding of him that speaks. — Norman Foerster, American Poetry and Prose (1970)