Sentence examples for Intellectual fervor from inspiring English sources

Here was a man whose intellectual fervor matched his artistic energy.

When they finally met face to face, he was, he says, "blown away" by the dichotomy between Ms. Goldhirsh's "energetic, bubbly" personality, and her intellectual fervor.

The result is the kind of collision between intellectual fervor and street smarts that we tend to associate with an older, upwardly mobile generation.

"The streets were just filled with people and kids and debate and excitement and, from my point of view, intellectual fervor," he said in a 1996 interview with The New York Times.

Serge Bozon's sharply political comedy a giddily imaginative reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale stars Isabelle Huppert, who revels in its sly blend of dissonant humor, intellectual fervor, and macabre violence.

In "Godard Mon Amour" (which premièred at the Cannes Film Festival last May and opens here on Friday), Hazanavicius doesn't so much adapt Wiazemsky's memoirs as lay waste to them, pillaging the books for anecdotal sketches of a romance that he detaches from its surroundings, minimizing its intellectual fervor and historical urgency.

One of my hopes for the New Year would be for a substantial decline of the anti-intellectual fervor that has been dominant in our public discourse since the early 1980's.

Much to my surprise, he said that he "hated those images" because they reflected the most impoverished and traditional aspects of shtetl life, but not the intellectual and political fervor that gripped Poland between the wars when even many traditional Jews experimented with new ideas.

"Designers are like flowers," observes Paola Antonelli, the senior curator of architecture and design at MoMA. "They thrive in the right terrain: usually a mix of intellectual and artistic fervor, supported by a lively industrial sector of small to medium-size companies.

As curator, Henri Langlois combined high and low, showing Hollywood genre work alongside classic French cinema, and, when New Wave directors like Godard and Truffaut began working, the movies they made reflected Langlois's ecumenical taste; they picked up themes from American gangster pictures and treated them with intellectual and lyrical fervor.

Others, in cluding Hutchins Hapgood and Lin coln Steffens, caught the passion of intellectual de bate, the fervor of ideas, the doctri naire encounters, the bursting desire for betterment, the sometimes quixotic idealism that informed the lives of the Eastern European Jews who lived there.