Sentence examples for Intellectual inheritance from inspiring English sources

A lazy and lacklustre student, Nichols had a quick mind and a formidable intellectual inheritance.

People's intellectual inheritance is deeply dependent upon a certain point of view".

James was confronting the collapse of the 19th century's trust that Western societies embodied an intellectual inheritance that would improve the whole world.

Crushed (at least in memory), he felt that a line had been crossed, permanently separating the high-minded, essentially intellectual inheritance of the Revolution from the American future.

From her parents she gained, on her father's side, an intellectual inheritance, and, on her mother's, an artistic and mystical one.

"It's an incredibly important part of our intellectual inheritance," says Stephen Macedo *87, director of the University Center for Human Values.

This is his main intellectual and emotional inheritance from the liberation struggle, and has driven his desire to emancipate his own country, and hence Africa as a whole, from racial oppression and colonialism.

Within their vast intellectual, aesthetic, and moral inheritance, the founders searched for different aspects of the self that would allow India to come into its own as a modern nation-state.

Happiness, at least, was their inheritance; so was intellectual ardor, combativeness and a moral energy that propelled them onto the world at eccentric, sometimes painful angles.

And although he would cease being a Christian as an undergraduate at Oxford University, Hill retained all the moral seriousness, piety, egalitarianism and intellectual inquisitiveness bestowed by his Dissenting inheritance.

An unavoidable response of the middle-class conscience to a poor society is the socialist intellectual, who is often supported by family inheritance.