Sentence examples for engaging the intellect from inspiring English sources

They were exotics who knew how to get the heart beating faster by engaging the intellect and eye and putting front and center the kind of complex dance planning Mr. Kidd so skillfully hides in "Seven Brides".

It might not engage deeply with the intellect, but it does with the heart and the imagination in the most direct way possible (does music really have to engage the intellect anyway?).

What they prefer to focus on -- and praise -- are books that engage the intellect, books that can be explicated on the cerebral level alone.

All have stressed the need to take account of the facts of the case (the thing that science is good at) and to engage the intellect: absolutely not to believe things blindly.

The core of most intervention plans, it is generally agreed, should be a cognitive method engaging the child's intellect and emotions and sociability.

As book lovers we believe in the power of literature to engage the imagination and intellect, to make connections between imagined and real worlds and to help us reflect critically on what is going on – and, yes, ultimately to take action to help build a more socially just world.

Burgundy, on the other hand, is a wine to engage the emotions more than the intellect, a wine for the lunatic, the lover and the poet.

Apart from needing a fresh challenge to keep that massive intellect engaged, the least reward his past successes deserve is a grace-and-favour home.

He also has the engaged, unruly intellect of the kind of monk who left the order before he could be expelled.

My literary heroes are those who engage the emotions as well as the intellect.

Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot: it engages the imagination as well as the intellect.