Sentence examples for charming intellectual from inspiring English sources

He has been described as charming, intellectual, brave, an Anglophile, a believer in newspapers, and a friend of the arts.

A charming intellectual with a dangerous secret, Morrie endears himself to Grace, a young widow who runs a boardinghouse, and to a rancher turned librarian, Sam Sandison.

In 1960 Oë met Chairman Mao, whose writings he admired ("I was proud of his being Asian"), in Beijing and interviewed Jean-Paul Sartre in Paris in 1961 (a "charming intellectual who kept quoting himself").

One fancies her life as curator of design at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan to be an endless series of charming intellectual and aesthetic enigmas, mused over for hours with a large box of chocolates close at hand.

He was a charming intellectual with a grotesque secret.

Regarded by many in the industry as charming and intellectual, he has never worked at another company.

It is hard to disparage anything Mr. Gates does on television; he is easily our most charming public intellectual, displaying none of the blowhard, curmudgeon tendencies of his species.

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A man whose talents, combined with his intellectual fervour and charming demeanour, elevated him to a position of international cultural ambassador, Maxwell is a living mascot for Maori culture.

Worked with USAID and NGO's Prolific writer, resounding political orator, spoke his truth - even in the face of opposition, charming, brilliant, witty, generous, a true intellectual.

I find Debord's rants adolescent — but their adolescence is what makes them enduringly charming, like a primordial form of intellectual punk: impossible and wrongheaded, expressive of real and vital energies, and also terribly self-destructive.