Sentence examples for distinct intellectual from inspiring English sources

The narrative is also weakened by a shallow, loutish portrait of Louis XVI, who despite his weaknesses was a man of angelic disposition and distinct intellectual gifts.

For a country like France, with its own distinct intellectual traditions in economics, philosophy and law, such a trend is understandably galling.

Dr. Gordon and Dr. Dahl searched for, and failed to detect, ideological bias or even the subtler influence of the very distinct intellectual traditions of top U.S. universities.

One might object that Nabokov was a powerful intellect, and the last thing one wants, on encountering Cervantes for the first time, is another quite distinct intellectual or artistic presence, to distract from a fresh reading of the masterpiece.

Others have distinct intellectual objects, such as the perfection of God, of the natural world, or of another human being.

Far from homogenizing the titular figures, however, this approach ultimately serves to give a clear summary of the distinct intellectual spaces they occupy.

Nor does humor, as distinct from intellectual agility and a showman's flair.

Her parents divorced when she was 2. Although her childhood was jumbled -- "I have a bramblebush family," she says, with, all told, six siblings -- it was also distinct for its intellectual liveliness.

Listening to Messrs Sokal and Bricmont, you hear at times the sound of butterflies being broken in cyclotrons.In fact, these writers seem to have two distinct kinds of intellectual deviation in view, the second more serious than the first.

Thus, it is among disciples of Hōnen who tended toward the pole of emphasis on trust or on the adequacy of a single utterance an engagement with issues that have a distinct resonance with intellectual concerns today.

In the first case, the spoken term is the same but there are two distinct significates or intellectual conceptions; in the second case, both the spoken term and the significate are the same.