Sentence examples for earnest intellectual from inspiring English sources

The friends became members of the Apostles, an exclusive undergraduate club of earnest intellectual interests.

Big ideas, or at least earnest intellectual conceits, crowd the screen along with suave digital effects and gaudy costumes.

Although he remembers reading Dostoevsky under the blankets at night as a youngster, Mr Harman's style is more that of blustery businessman than of earnest intellectual.

"Big ideas, or at least earnest intellectual conceits, crowd the screen along with suave digital effects and gaudy costumes," Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in October.

If it's an odd hangout for me, it's an even stranger place to find Hiller, a bracingly earnest and intellectual artist who, although garlanded with critical acclaim in a career that has so far lasted four decades – Nicholas Serota called her a "hugely influential figure for a younger generation of British artists" – is neither a household name, nor a fashionable one.

He wears round, owlish glasses­, and in early book-jacket photographs, when his beard was darker and more closely trimmed than it is now, he reminds you of one of those earnest Russian intellectuals of the 19th century.

Granola (Værnedamsvej 5, aok.dk) is something of a local institution, a spot where families come for a pancake breakfast (45DKK, about £5), old ladies stop for a croissant, and earnest young intellectuals sit discussing books.

In Chicago, Zuckerman turned himself into an earnest young 1950s intellectual, an admirer of Conrad, Chekhov, Isaac Babel and Thomas Mann.

But one does not expect the AN Wilsons of this world to be earnest, steel-spectacled intellectuals.

That an American art-house audience is likely to recognize Martin and Roos — earnest, self-satisfied intellectuals who spend a lot of time in restaurants — does not necessarily make them appealing.

She began her intellectual life in earnest there, in the company of the open-minded industrialist Charles Bray and his wife, Cara.