Sentence examples for cool intellect from inspiring English sources

Slim is a model of sophistication and cool intellect, but as "Timbuktu" unravels, so does she.

The fiery snowball embodies unification of cool intellect and hot feeling, which is the combustive essence of Mr. Wirsum's art.

"Maggie has a poise, she has a coolness to her, she has an intellectual rigour, and it's the carapace of cool intellect that surrounds this schismed personality that makes the character fascinating," Blick said.

In contrast with Mr. Wright — the kind of speaker who could make a grocery list sound like a jeremiad — Mr. Obama speaks with cool intellect and on-the-one-hand reasoning.

Le Carré's world offers us a fantasy of an iconic brand of authority: the cool intellect that allows a strong person to experience the ultimate pleasure, which is total control.

Even the cool intellect of Igor Stravinsky was touched by theurgic energies: the neo-pagan scenario of "The Rite of Spring" was co-created by the Russian Symbolist painter Nicholas Roerich, who went on to have a spectacularly strange career as a Theosophical sage.

If the image of his two predecessors, Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, was of nation-builders and cool intellects, Zuma's is of a man whose concentration is on sex and political self-preservation.

Lisbeth Salander, Stieg Larsson's fierce pixie of a heroine, is one of the most original characters in a thriller to come along in a while — a gamin, Audrey Hepburn look-alike but with tattoos and piercings, the take-no-prisoners attitude of Lara Croft and the cool, unsentimental intellect of Mr. Spock.

The character was a "vulnerable victim-turned-vigilante" who possessed the "take-no-prisoners" attitude of Lara Croft and the "cool, unsentimental intellect" of Spock.

Soon after the war, Welles himself played one of those vast, cool and unsympathetic intellects in "The Stranger," a 1946 production that remains Welles's most seriously underestimated work.

Hindsight helps, but Welles seems to be lending a particular portent to the novel's description of the lurking Martian menace: "Intellects vast, cool and unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us".