Sentence examples for clever intellectual from inspiring English sources

You can admire very clever intellectual fireworks but in the end you also need the odd belly laugh and Dyer gives you that.

With his clever, intellectual, inquiring, methodical mind allied to one of the least self-aggrandising personalities in the Labour ranks in the Commons, despite clear ability and ambition, Meacher was never quite in alignment with the political moment during his 45 years in the Commons.

As a girl, Margaret Roberts was clever but not intellectual.

We don't go in for pontificating to the nation, but if you ask whether we have a vibrant form of political, social and cultural debate in which people who are academic, intellectual, clever – and not just media stars – engage, we have loads of it.

There is in her cleverest, most arcane intellectual analysis a grace, a lightness of touch, that one rarely finds in a work of scholarship.

"He would personally inform the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg that he was conducting 'Peer Gynt' all wrong," Ms. Carter writes, and "tell Richard Strauss that modern composition was 'detestable' and he was 'one of the worst.' " George was a dull mediocrity — he feared clever people and intellectuals, calling them "eyebrows" — who spent much of his time as an adult collecting stamps and shooting.

Intellectual consistency, clever speech writing, or political desperation?

What was missing from an evidently clever man was an intellectual framework.

I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.

But for me it was so smart, so clever in its proudly intellectual reinterpretation that overt emotion was easily compensated for by brainy playfulness.

But the intellectual apparatus and clever chamber programming went a long way in compensation.