Sentence examples for discursive intellectual from inspiring English sources

The mystic claims contact with an order of reality transcending the world of the senses and the ordinary forms of discursive intellectual knowing.

The result is messy and somewhat frustrating, but Clinton's "rowdy, discursive intellectual brilliance" is "evident on almost every page," our reviewer, Joe Klein, said, "and so is the self-indulgence, self-pity and self-destructiveness".

His grand synthesis of discursive philosophy, intellectual intuition, and asceticism came to be known as the "Transcendental Theo-Sophy" (al-ḥikmat al-muta'āliyah).

But what's most shocking isn't our ailing status; it's the notion that we as a country would rather perpetuate a cycle of discursive and intellectual poverty than elect leaders dedicated to ameliorating our country's broken machinery.

Taken together, the letters form a sort of discursive autobiography and intellectual cri de coeur.

We are concerned not only with the surface of the text, so to speak (the arena of the first four components listed above), but with the evolving sociology of Indian knowledge and with the discursive structure of intellectual argument as such.

To the Editor: I have been writing fiction for 30 years, and during that time I have been told by agents and editors that my work is too intellectual, too discursive, too political; that American readers don't care about what happens in other countries; that men don't read books by women and that women want to read only about domestic relationships.

Baldessari's video Teaching a Plant the Alphabet (1972) (Fig. 2) is a response both to the new form of arts education that Baldessari was involved in implementing at CalArts and to conceptualism's valuation of an intellectual and discursive [End Page 152] art practice.

This was a performance of startling intellectual lucidity (the long, discursive opening movement, Emerson, has never seemed so logical and coherent) and sometimes dazzling keyboard skill.

MATERIA is a new discursive space on campus for sustained intellectual exchange on a central tendency in contemporary criticism: the decentering of humans as "our object of study". We are an inclusive, interdisciplinary group that finds in the notion of post-anthropocentrism an umbrella for some of the most interesting debates of recent years.

She sees such historical developments not as moments of intellectual discovery but as discursive development.