'distinguished minds' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to individuals who are recognized for their exceptional intelligence, talent, or achievements. Example: The conference was attended by some of the most distinguished minds in the field of science and technology.
It also employed some very distinguished minds.
As she grew older she also became extremely vain: there was some excuse, as the most distinguished minds of Europe heaped flatteries on her that even she ultimately found exaggerated.
One of the most distinguished minds of his age, but unfairly eclipsed by the fame of his contemporaries and sometime rivals Isaac Newton and Christopher Wren (and the fact that virtually no portrait of Hooke survives).
To see a truly distinguished mind at war with faith, read this book.
F. R. Leavis agreed and, on Johnson's criticism, said, "When we read him we know, beyond question, that we have here a powerful and distinguished mind operating at first hand upon literature.
The other night at the Cardozo School of Law, a group of distinguished legal minds got together to settle a dispute over a loan default.
By Lizzie Widdicombe The other night at the Cardozo School of Law, a group of distinguished legal minds got together to settle a dispute over a loan default.
What's striking is that today's version of the Manhattan Project scientists — not the weapons researchers at our maximum-security national laboratories, but distinguished scientific minds at our research universities and other national labs — provide advice that is routinely ignored.
Senators on both sides of the aisle acknowledge that he is a distinguished legal mind, a dedicated public servant, and a good and decent man.
Possessed of a distinguished and sagacious mind, al-Maʾmūn set forth in the political domain very personal ideas that, in effect, ended in failure.
The 75-year-old Scott a hero of the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War was a magnificent and distinguished soldier whose mind was still keen, but he was physically incapacitated and had to be retired from the service on November 1 , 1861
