Sentence examples for decent intelligent from inspiring English sources

Neither a dim bulb nor a reimagined but unlikely spin on the old fellow -- just a decent, intelligent guy who is awed by Holmes' intelligence but willing to call his friend to the carpet when necessary as well.

David Cameron is decent, intelligent and capable.

He is decent, intelligent and a good listener.

Labour politicians who know Gove like him as a decent, intelligent man, though he can strike newcomers as arrogant.

The Labour leader praised Wicks, the MP for Croydon North, as a "thoroughly decent, intelligent and compassionate man" whose death left a "huge hole" in the party.

Mr Miliband came across as decent, intelligent and prepared to tell his party some things that reduced the conference hall to sullen silence: such as his admission that a Labour government would have had to implement painful cuts.

NoForbiddingAllowed reckoned such self-loathing was misplaced: "Watching Labour supporters dismally accept more vacuous 'new generation' and 'change' twaddle is almost as depressing as the other recent farce with 'believers' pretending that the Catholic church is a force for peace, love and charity... Decent intelligent people should give up on such a tainted 'party' and start again, properly".

"What marks all the best work Lemmon has done are some trace elements of the man himself, some perceived truth that as clown or tragic figure, the persona within the character is likable, decent, intelligent, vulnerable, worth knowing; disorganised possibly, flawed almost certainly, but forever worth knowing," was the assessment of the Los Angeles Times film writer, Charles Champlin.