Sentence examples for fine intellectual from inspiring English sources

Susan could always combine popularism with a fine intellectual approach to her work.

The chart is an effective aid to memory, a free-fire zone for disagreements, and fine intellectual fun.

Some shrewd analysts viewed him as a fine intellectual led astray into public life by ambition and the desire to prove himself a man of action.

Conor Cruise O'Brien, a fellow Irish politician and man of letters, came closest to making up a coherent Burke, a few decades back, with his fine intellectual biography, "The Great Melody".

Thus, quantum mechanics attracted some of the ablest scientists of the 20th century, and they erected what is perhaps the finest intellectual edifice of the period.

The rational core of nostalgia for grammar schools is that they were, at their finest, intellectual hothouses bringing working-class kids to the world of ideas and debate.

Some of his rivals later in the 5th century B.C. ridiculed Aeschylus for his lofty language and Olympian views, but the trilogy is one of Greece's finest intellectual heritages.

Democrats and Dissenters; Against Everything; Days Without End Ramachandra Guha is widely considered India's finest intellectual, and his new book of essays, Democrats and Dissenters (Allen Lane), reminds us why.

"Why give the Nazis the satisfaction of having purged the country even of the remains of some of its finest intellectuals?" Harold Marcuse asked.

You can get along just fine without intellectual coherence when the flavors are as clear and harmonious as they are in a ceviche of white shrimp bathed in a vivid citrus sauce.

A Rhodes scholar described by some colleagues as his generation's finest legal intellectual in South Africa, he is a courtly, judicious man who serves tea with impeccable gentility.