Sentence examples for critical intellect from inspiring English sources

If there are bloody crossroads out there calling for the attention of the critical intellect, the novel does not appear to run through them.

Might I suggest that an interim prime minister be chosen from respected elder statesman to be a wise counsel, critical intellect and reassuring presence, both to the UK electorate and the EU.

The show was truncated after Chávez ducked a debate with the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, prompting jeers that the garrulous socialist Chávez feared taking on a leading, critical intellect.

They might stand for those who would disavow sensual hedonism and the infantile consumerism it leads to — those who would put art to the service of critical intellect and political rectitude.

For this content, displayed in the discursive idiom of the critical intellect, is no more than a husk, a discarded relic of a meaning that eluded us in the act of seizing it.

In a recent essay, "Thirty Years Later," which she wrote as the introduction to a new edition of "Against Interpretation," she says that, if so, she was misunderstood: To call for an "erotics of art" did not mean to disparage the role of the critical intellect.

We are used to wringing our hands over commercialization, but the assimilation of sharp critical intellects into the mainstream sprang them from their downtown ghettos.

But behind the marvellous manner, unforced charm and wicked hoots of laughter he was one of the most formidable critical intellects of his day, a powerfully subtle analyst of political and social nuance, and the possessor of intellectual antennae that let nothing past them.

In his preferred terminology, faith is not so much against as beyond reason, since it is ultimately compatible, in his view, with a duly self-critical intellect.

It's an upgrade in so many critical categories, including intellect and overall seriousness.

They know that if they arm themselves with as much information as possible, they can use their intellect and critical thinking skills to solve scientific dilemmas.