It makes him a fascinating elegist, since the singling out of individuals that justifies the project of elegy — the sense that a unique human person, now missing from the world, might be remade in art — runs counter to his intellectual inclination to view people as cogs in the cosmic machinery.
Oruka was concerned that African intellectuals were drawn into this false assumption regarding the intellectual inclination of African people, maintaining the belief that critique is absent from indigenous African thought.
Beard's intellectual inclinations began to emerge when she was a student at Shrewsbury High School, a private school for girls, where she studied French, German, Latin, and Greek.
It also grants a student the freedom to go in whatever direction her or his intellectual inclinations lead, without regard to the ultimate economic utility of the course of study.
For the first time he was free to follow his own intellectual inclinations; and he gained a sense of the uniqueness of the individual, of the healthiness of moderate skepticism, and of the importance of Mediterranean civilization as a counterbalance to the more straitlaced attitudes of northern European countries.
Moreover, they often come from families that may monitor educational performance but are removed from "their moods and their psychological and intellectual inclinations," Mr. Nesira added, enabling the lonely or depressed to seek belonging in "a religious utopia," sometimes a very radical one.
Overhearing us, Elliot Johnson, the rookie shortstop, muttered, "Nerd!" Baseball culture, even a decade after the publication of "Moneyball," and within an offbeat organization like Tampa's, more or less guarantees that a Stanford graduate will be the target of good-natured teasing, no matter his intellectual inclinations.
Whatever our intellectual inclinations might be, whatever our spectrum of reasonable belief might be, we are but fortunate to remember those like Sri Madhvacharya (1238-1317), philosaintr, scholarscholathletelete and founder of one of the most vibrant devotional traditions in India (and indirectly, around the world too).
The group's debased message, stripped of all but the most simplistic and distorted theological or political argument, appeals too to those who have neither the intellectual equipment nor inclination to debate, argue or learn.
I also mean the intellectual capacity and inclination to discern veracity in statements they encounter in life.
The MacArthur Fellows Program is intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations.
