Sentence examples for distinguished intellectuals from inspiring English sources

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

In The Cambridge Quintet, physicist-writer John L. Casti enlists five of the century's most distinguished intellectuals as the dramatis personae in a heated, hypothetical dinner conversation exploring this fault line.

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.

He was born into a distinguished intellectual family.

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

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

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.

This fall, Rita Charon, MD, PhD, will receive the federal government's highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.

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.

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.