Anyone entering into a discussion with Pat of these and other subjects was aware of his engaging mind, intellect and warm sense of humor.
Still, Mr. Lanchester's novel is a brilliant semi-success, the kind of semi-success that could only be wrought by a man of an engaging, probing sort of intellect.
If Mr. Bush needed to demonstrate that he had both intellect and an engaging personality, Mr. Gore probably needs to show the reverse: to demonstrate that he is something else than the brainy if drab No. 2 who has stood off to the side of the national stage for the past eight years.
His engaging personality and down to earth intellect were the gifts he shared with his colleagues.
Albarn's vividly engaging artworks are "a blend of intellect and intuition" – pattern as both order and permeable vision.
A warm and engaging individual of strong will, great intellect, wit and humor, Deborah was a force and a presence.
And where Elvis Costello took readers on a trip through the formative events of his life processed through the filter of his formidable intellect in last year's highly engaging "Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink," Springsteen speaks predominantly and most powerfully from the heart, and his gut. .
Michael combined a razor-sharp intellect and boyish charm with an engaging naivety that he never lost during his 45 years in parliament.
If Galbraith enters his biography like a character in a Graham Greene novel, Friedman is introduced in the language of a school report: "In addition to his intellect, he has a strong work ethic, an engaging personality, and an excellent sense of humour".
To be clear, I truly respected Mr. Scalia's soaring intellect, his larger-than-life personality, his passion for engaging and challenging others and himself to think in different ways, outside of the box.
