For avoidance of doubt: she's a loving mother, a diligent writer, a quiet intellectual, a loyal friend and the unluckiest wife I've ever known.
Not diligent or smart enough for his intellectual family.
There, Ms. Palin was described as diligent but reserved, someone who left few impressions about her intellectual life or worldview with classmates reached by The New York Times.
Happily, a new breed of diligent quotation researchers–scholars, if you like has arisen to police this form of intellectual word abuse.
Intellectual curiosity and a commitment to lifelong learning are hallmarks of diligent and conscientious future employees.
Jeffrey Morshed, who received his Master of Arts in Near Eastern studies, said that graduate study is an "arduous process," but "upon completion you get a body of intellectual work that is yours". Morshed's studies transformed him into a diligent and focused researcher and "instilled in me an appreciation for thorough research," he said.
Happily, a new breed of diligent quotation researchers--scholars, if you like--has arisen to police this form of intellectual word abuse.
Adam Liptak of the New York Times portrayed this position as "an intellectual poll tax that could just as well justify limiting attendance in the courtroom to people smart enough and diligent enough to know what is going on".
But Justice Sotomayor's approach also sounds like an intellectual poll tax that could just as well justify limiting attendance in the courtroom to people smart enough and diligent enough to know what is going on.
Moreover, intellectuals, with their sophisticated ideas, destroy the people's simple-mindedness (pu 樸), making the latter less diligent and more difficult to control.
