Sentence examples for an exercise in intelligence from inspiring English sources

Most of counter-terrorism, it seems to me, is an exercise in intelligence and policing (national and international).

Eliza was developed more as a language-parsing tool than as an exercise in human intelligence.

Although Microsoft and LinkedIn are not talking about this explicitly as an exercise in artificial intelligence, there will be some assistant-like features incorporated into Resume Assistant.

Startups are an exercise in emotional intelligence.

Horne also goes badly astray in denouncing the Senate Church Committee hearings that detailed the Central Intelligence Agency's misdeeds, which he deems "almost a McCarthy-style witch-hunt against all forms of 'secret intelligence' — and an exercise in self-hatred, and self-harm".

Badger was referring to the work of Stephen Shore, who once declared photography "an exercise in attention" and "an art that calls forth intelligence, concentration and delicacy".

Amanda, a sexual dynamo and a manipulative head case, might have been an exercise in sour misogyny, but Ms. Ricci has a feral intelligence that turns her into a finely drawn comic monster.

Mr. Torreton, a member of the Comedie Francaise, is a marvelous actor, compact and reserved, with a gentleness and sorrowful intelligence that prevent his performance from becoming an exercise in saintliness.

This occasionally dark but wonderfully original simulation occasionally suggests a sophisticated turn on Eliza, a text-based exercise in artificial intelligence that began in the mid-1980's, but Seaman is also an exercise in sustained maintenance.

A date is an exercise in adjustment.

In the hunt for terrorists and those who support them, intelligence analysts construct "link charts" to connect a suspicious individual to his known acquaintances, to their known acquaintances, and so on — an exercise in six degrees of separation.