Sentence examples for Intellectual inertia from inspiring English sources

The Voyeur's Motel is a work of great moral queasiness, and intellectual inertia.

This is a good thing, since most movies plop down in easily recognizable categories and stay there, troubling neither their own intellectual inertia nor that of the audience.

"In every regard," he writes, "the commercialisation of gay culture has had a trivialising effect on our lives, producing unhappiness and dissatisfaction while reinforcing our intellectual inertia".Should he get so carried away?

That everyone is a critic means, or should mean, that we are each of us capable of thinking against our own prejudices, of balancing scepticism with open-mindedness, of sharpening our dulled and glutted senses and battling the intellectual inertia that surrounds us.

The bigger problem though is the intellectual inertia and malaise that has allowed an old colonial racist mythology about India to become synonymous with the progressive, anti-casteist position in India today.

If there exists in America a more eloquent testament to the Jughead shrug, a better paean to intellectual lassitude and inertia, I demand to see it.

The appeal to a transcendent reality over "two thousand years of Western history" is not due to intellectual or spiritual inertia or prejudice it provides the needed counterweight to the world of flux and discontinuity that is so characteristic of virtually all experience.

That intellectual ship has a lot of inertia," he said.

The Roman rooftop terrace parties in "The Great Beauty" show a culture that is blocked, resigned, embalmed in elegant decline, where some seek religion and others cocaine, and intellectuals talk endlessly about what's wrong and yet inertia overwhelms all forward momentum.

The Wilson governments, all intellectual hubris, presided over years of economic difficulty and political inertia.

As the semester proceeds, your intellectual and psychological muscles will get stronger and it will be easier and easier to overcome inertia and persevere until your work is done.