Sentence examples for distinguished intellectual from inspiring English sources

He was born into a distinguished intellectual family.

A distinguished intellectual and proud Jew, he will be sorely missed by all who knew him.

One of the country's most distinguished intellectual property attorneys, and owner of the BookHampton bookstores.

In Washington this past Monday, Wendell delivered the 2012 Jefferson Lecture, the highest honor the federal government has for "distinguished intellectual achievement" in the humanities.

Aunt Zhong is an opera scholar and librettist from a distinguished intellectual family; her father was a university vice-president, her mother a painter who studied with the famous master Qi Baishi.

In 1992, the National Council on the Humanities chose Professor Knox to deliver its yearly Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor the federal government confers for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.

A popular and populist figure, Jackson could not have been more different from the distinguished intellectuals who preceded him.

Garry Wills is not only one of the country's most distinguished intellectuals, but also one of its most provocative, bringing his learning to bear on great questions of history and contemporary politics, often at the same time.

Shostakovich also joined a group of 25 distinguished intellectuals in signing a letter to Leonid Brezhnev asking not to rehabilitate Stalin.

His family was not rich but it was distinguished and intellectual.

Some argue that Sen is the last heir to a distinguished Bengali intellectual tradition that owed as much to poets as it did to scientists, politicians and philosophers.