Sentence examples for an intellectual failure from inspiring English sources

Is it an intellectual failure?

But Hague's stance on Europe also embodies an intellectual failure.

"The Philharmonic tour," he wrote, "despite its artistic success, has been an intellectual failure.

Now, he calls the UK Coalition's austerity programme "an intellectual failure".

That is, I believe that we're looking at a moral failure as well as an intellectual failure.

Adair Turner, the chairman of the Financial Services Authority, last week attributed the crisis to "an intellectual failure" that ran through the whole system.

For the modern mind, he continues, "belief in a creed is a sign of intellectual failure," an abandonment of critical thinking, a rejection of scientific evidence and a subordination of individual judgment to the herd mentality.

That prospect, however, masks what Mr Mishra concedes is an "immense intellectual failure", because "no convincingly universalist response exists today to Western ideas of politics and economy".The ways of the West may not be working.

She added: "Our comments to the UN centre around seven specific areas of objection that clearly demonstrate how the Mapping Exercise has been a moral and intellectual failure as well as an insult to history".

I suspect that the Ben Bernanke of 1999 would characterise this as a moral and intellectual failure of staggering proportions.

Mr Turner argued that the regulatory shortcomings, shared by both the FSA and the Bank of England, were rooted in a more profound intellectual failure to grasp the risks that were building up in global finance.