His admirers say he is well suited to the task because he is a sound strategic thinker, is deeply versed in history and can effectively relate world affairs to Mr. Bush's political concerns at home.
In a letter to then-associate White House counsel William H. Kennedy III, who requested Marceca's assignment, Allen described him as "a sound and logical thinker, capable of handling any number of critical and sensitive missions at one time... Mr. Marceca is always the master of every situation.
Widespread conviction can be false, of course, which is why the method of the School of Common Sense was thought suspect by many, described by Kant, for example, as a stratagem by which "the stalest windbag can confidently take up with the soundest thinker" (Kant 1783/1951: 259).
Hamilton was "the sounder thinker, the constructive statesman, the candid and honorable, if erring, gentleman," who even had the courage to acknowledge, as he had once put it, that "your people, sir, your people is a great beast".
He was a learned scholar rather than a deep thinker, a sound traditionalist and not a speculative theologian, more competent as editor than as exegete.
Get money off Sen's work at the Independent's bookshop For a revolutionary Italian thinker, that sounds like a very English understatement.
When you call a thinker a "conservative communist", you sound as if you are making a weak joke.
I know that politics has reduced many a great thinker to expository sound bites, but they flow too glibly in the casual conversation here.
He's a squinter and a thinker.
Ken was an activist and a thinker.
She is "a thinker, a listener".
