Sentence examples for curious intellectual from inspiring English sources

With the money he became a collector, now of art as well as women: especially the works of Paul Klee, another playful, curious intellectual polygamist.

To a woman such as Mantel – so fiercely curious, intellectual, creative, and driven – this must seem like a life of insidious torture.

That is a curious intellectual position for someone whose polymathic interests included a fascination with the possiblity of building artificially-intelligent machines capable of thinking like a human being.

Yet as a curious intellectual, I wonder how much truth there is to that claim.

In the 18th century curious intellectuals encountered Catholicism in Beijing and smuggled it home.

Assuming the presidency of the Royal Society in 1778, Banks then encouraged a range of curious intellectuals to produce knowledge about the natural world.

They're curious, intellectually vigorous".

A picture emerges, in big dots: Offill's narrator is curious, witty, intellectual, literary, insomniac, and rawly honest both about others and about herself.

Mark Bauerlein of Emory University echoes the theme in his new data-filled book, The Dumbest Generation, which paints a picture of self-absorption young people faself-absorption youngves, and each other, but "the least curious and intellectual generation in national history".

"Part of the thing I found with hanging with shamans in various places and times is that once you get past the language barrier what shamans are are simply curious people, intellectuals of a certain type.

"It's curious that the intellectual and artistic community transforms its aesthetic unease or personal disgust into a longing for a type of patriarchal and pre-modern moral authority," he wrote.