Sentence examples for a lively intellect from inspiring English sources

This collection of ruminations on cuisine and cookery offers the perspective of a refined palate wed to a lively intellect.

Dr. Siegel, a gifted clinician with a lively intellect, was a deeply spiritual person with a healing touch.

Aczél had a lively intellect, and he managed Hungarian cultural life by means of direct intervention, placing great importance on his personal connections with leading intellectuals.

Perhaps such individuals – those who combine deep scholarship, a lively intellect and an ability to communicate vividly beyond the academy – are indeed rarer now than they were in previous generations.

For those who have followed Gilbert's career, neither his anti-aristocratic stance nor his lively intellect comes as a surprise.

But at 62, Mr. Arcand, a French-Canadian director known for his lively intellect and historical perspective, has what it takes to look death in the face and take its measure.

With similarly anesthetic intent, Dante likes to toss in the odd conundrum from time to time, to tease the lively intellect.

We will miss her warmth, spirit, and lively intellect, and extend our sympathies to Max, Anna's children Steve and Sabrina, Max's daughters Rose and Chara, and all the family.

This excerpt from our interview, following the publication of her 2009 novel, "The Year of the Flood", reveals not only seventy-one-year-old Atwood's lively intellect and moral engagement but also her pleasure in pop culture, palm reading, and "fun as a survival tool".

The Aldens, unlike most of that company, have a near-encyclopedic knowledge of the operatic repertory, and even when their ideas drift toward the perverse or puzzling you have the sense that lively intellects are grappling with the stuff of the score.

I look for an original voice, assured technique and poetry showing a lively interplay of intellect and emotion.