The phrase "a remarkable intellectual" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who possesses exceptional intelligence or insight, often in a scholarly or thoughtful context.
Example: "Her contributions to the field of philosophy have established her as a remarkable intellectual."
Alternatives: "an exceptional thinker" or "a distinguished scholar."
He really engrosses the reader in the 'process' of scholarship and it's a remarkable intellectual exercise.
"He was a remarkable intellectual with the courage to allow that intellect to take him wherever it would go," said Mr. Kerrey, now president of New School University.
"What we are witnessing from the Tories is either a dishonest rhetorical gloss to hide their true intentions or a remarkable intellectual collapse.
One is a remarkable intellectual fairness and patience, even with the least obviously congenial elements of the culture of the time: middle-brow novels mercifully forgotten today, or the dreadful ballroom exercise laid down by Victor Sylvester.
In 1786 he married Sophie de Grouchy (1764 1822), with whom he formed a remarkable intellectual partnership on the basis of their shared democratic convictions and their benign and optimistic view of human nature.
It also has got a remarkable sequence from the set of "Detective," in which Godard when he's unable to get the cinematographer, Bruno Nuytten, to light the shot as he sees fit launches into a famous tirade that, for all its vehemence and ad hominem unfairness, contains a remarkable intellectual short-circuit from aesthetics to political morality.
To dream up a theory that can explain the masses of the fundamental particles of nature is a truly remarkable intellectual achievement.
The late Roman Republic, despite its turmoil, was a period of remarkable intellectual ferment.
The government has passed a series of laws stipulating that it has ultimate authority over the "management of living Buddha reincarnation," an act of remarkable intellectual flexibility for the officially atheist Communist Party.
Descriptions of Maxwell remark upon his remarkable intellectual qualities being matched by social awkwardness.
Take a look at what David Greenberg (Rutgers) and Tony Michels (University of Wisconsin), both solid liberals, have to say about her thesis: As a piece of research and writing, it displays remarkable intellectual maturity.
