Sentence examples for a modicum of intellectual from inspiring English sources

It must of course be understood that even the simplest sports, such as weightlifting, require a modicum of intellectual effort, while others, such as baseball, involve a considerable amount of mental alertness.

The Liberal Democrats have an opportunity to make their dissatisfaction with George Osborne's self-defeating austerity plain, regain some of their party's political integrity, give real momentum to a more intelligent economic strategy and help to restore a modicum of intellectual coherence to the party's approach to economic policymaking.

Accord, id., at 759-760, and n. 140; Nimmer § 1.06[A] ("[O]riginality is a statutory as well as a constitutional requirement"); id., § 1.08[C] ("[A] modicum of intellectual labor... clearly constitutes an essential constitutional element").

The problem with that system, of course, is that it requires a level of denial that anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty and a modicum of self-awareness would find difficult to sustain.

Without a modicum of pain.

A modicum of people like it.

There is a modicum of control.

It provided a modicum of hope".

"I had a modicum of talent".

It even contains a modicum of good news.

How dare they enjoy a modicum of economic comfort?