Sentence examples for decline of intellectual from inspiring English sources

It is sad to see him mistaking his own declining energies for an objective cultural diagnosis and so falling into an ungenerous cultural pessimism: nobody is now doing good work, "there is mediocrity everywhere", the life of the mind is nearly finished, "part of the general decline of intellectual standards in England" and so on.

In its pages, Mr. Kramer took dead aim at a long list of targets: creeping populism at leading art museums; the incursion of politics into artistic production and curatorial decision-making; the fecklessness, as he saw it, of the National Endowment for the Arts; and the decline of intellectual standards in the culture at large.

To be accepted as demented there had to be documented evidence of decline of intellectual and/or cognitive and social function that was irreversible with medical or psychiatric treatment.

Though the term "senile dementia" did not appear in the traditional Chinese medical literature, ancient medics were conscious of the phenomena and depicted elaborately its clinic exhibitions in medical books, including memory letdown, vacant face expression, lack of responsiveness and decline of intellectual ability such as comprehension and judgment, as well as emotional abnormity.

In sum, geniposide is able to protect neurons from A β-induced damage by remodeling A β. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease of the brain, characterized clinically by progressive decline of intellectual abilities, including memory and reasoning, and the irreversible loss of neurons [ 1, 2].

But they wanted to know whether anything could be done to halt the seemingly steady decline of fluid intellectual skills through the years.

Haack, in particular, frames criticism of Rorty along these lines in moral terms; to her mind, Rorty's efforts to abandon the basic concepts of traditional epistemology are symptoms of a vulgar cynicism, which contributes to the decline of reason and intellectual integrity that Haack and others find to be characteristic of much contemporary thought.

Despite the decline of the critical intellectual over the last several decades, the field of academic critical theory has expanded its influence both within academe, (in fields outside of the humanities such as economics and ecology) but more importantly, the critical public intellectual has been influencing social movements beyond the confines of the ivory tower since the 1990's to the present.

Though stooped and molasses-like on her feet, Justice Ginsburg shows no signs of intellectual decline, questioning lawyers with slicing precision during oral arguments.

Peter Garrard of the Medical Research Council's cognition and brain sciences unit said: "Alzheimer's is known to disrupt the brain's semantic system, but this can happen subtly before anyone has the remotest suspicion of intellectual decline.

The interwar years were some of our best for intellectual discourse, and it's revealing that Hedges would pick the period of high modernist achievement as the beginning of intellectual decline.