Sentence examples for appealed to the intellect from inspiring English sources

She did that rare thing: make you think with your heart and feel with your head; she was a poet who appealed to the intellect as much as the emotions, and in that sense she had much in common with her old friend Audre Lorde.

Another was his insistence that art must appeal to the intellect and not merely to the senses.

The American impressionist George Innes wrote at the time: "A work of art does not appeal to the intellect.

"At Esquire, we believe we can successfully appeal to the intellect of our readers as well as satisfy their curiosity about, uh, celebrities".

His posters were both charming and provocative, their formal structure was always direct, but executed with a sleight of hand; compositions were stripped down to the essential ingredients, always carrying a distinct message, one that would appeal to the intellect and the senses.

They appeal to the intellect rather than the libido, and often make direct quotation of earlier works of art history, particularly Renaissance sculpture and Baroque printmaking.

Second, in cases in which the sense modalities are not in agreement either because one modality yields a different result than another modality, or because a single modality yields different results at different times we can appeal to the intellect to adjudicate among them.

Deprived of its strongest claim to interest, a sympathetic response in the moral and religious sentiment of its readers, it can only appeal to the intellect as a work of art, or as a more or less successful attempt at antiquarian restoration.

They had appealed to the conscience, intellect and self-interest of the ruling classes.

His focus on swing voters was solid analysis that appealed to the president's intellect; his obsession with the timing was superstition that inflamed the president's insecurities".

There was another appeal inherent in a feudal system, and it was not unique to Tod: the historian Thomas R. Metcalf has said that Above all, the chivalric ideal viewed character as more worthy of admiration than wealth or intellect, and this appealed to the old landed classes at home as well as to many who worked for the Indian Civil Service.