There's a distinctly … intellectual bent to them, even by New York Times crossword puzzle standards.
The project, named Banner repeater, is typical of many pop-up art installations: intellectual, obscure and distinctly not for profit.
The work, though distinctly uneven, is filled with intellectual provocation and delicious fantasy, and studded with scintillation, but it is the life – those action-packed 46 years with their almost Greek trajectory of catastrophe, rapid fall and pitiful resolution – that has marked him out as one of the great symbolic figures of western civilisation.
Mr. Amalric, like Mr. Léaud (with whom he has appeared twice, in "Diary of a Seducer" and "L'Affaire Marcorelle"), specializes in playing a distinctly French kind of hero: an intellectual paralyzed by his own introspection, simultaneously antic and morose.
The way ahead is composed of critical engagement with respect to the unrealised aspirations of the modern project – as was the case in the 1950's in Harvard, with the mobilisation of great intellectual resources, albeit their being distinctly slow and partial (Krieger and Saunders 2009).
According to Galton, unlike the regular folk he questioned, many of the scientists and other intellectuals amongst his respondents were distinctly unwilling to admit to ever experiencing (visual) mental imagery (Galton, 1880a, 1883; see also Roe, 1951).
Despite Moore's international fame — four of his novels have been made into major Hollywood movies — he remains, in his influences and intellectual sensibility, the inheritor of a distinctly English, dissenting tradition.
Although philosophers have self-consciously engaged in ethical theorizing since the days of the ancient Greeks, they have not given much thought to what it is that makes certain kinds of ethical reflection distinctly theoretical as opposed to other, more practical intellectual pursuits.
As Andrew Bacevich, author most recently of Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country, makes clear in "Rationalizing Lunacy," O'Hanlon is part of a roiling mass of "policy intellectuals" who have given this country a distinctly hard time.
There was a drive for disciplinary diversity, and a distinctly unusual commitment to use the Maison Française to serve the intellectual and educational community of Oxford at large.
Above all, Edinburgh's intellectual life, like Chicago's, was built around a distinctly city university, intertwined with the commercial life and the civic life of a merchant capital, rather than set off in a country town with country values.
