Sentence examples for gathering of intellectuals from inspiring English sources

AT A gathering of intellectuals in Beijing, Xin Ziling, an author and former defence official, posed an interesting question.

Sports as a metaphor for life has been one of the great cliches of the more robust gathering of intellectuals.

I expected an assembly of larger-than-life figures with stentorian voices, but it felt more like an awkward gathering of intellectuals at a faculty breakfast.

They did not consult with officials about this decision, and the next month, when Mr. Putin invited Mr. Bykov and Mr. Yefremov to join him at a gathering of intellectuals and artists, neither man accepted.

It was organized and virtually directed by George Ripley, a former Unitarian minister, editor of The Dial (a critical literary monthly), and a leader in the Transcendental Club, an informal gathering of intellectuals of the Boston area.

A Beijing academic, Cui Weiping, told a gathering of intellectuals called to commemorate it that the party's campaign to deter public discussion of Tiananmen, and public acquiescence to it, had damaged China's "spirit and morality".

One reaction against the excesses of the theatre was the custom of reading tragedies aloud to select gatherings of intellectuals.

One longtime analyst of Myanmar said the government tolerated politics with a small p — gatherings of intellectuals and members of smaller political groups.

TED, an organization best known for the gatherings of intellectuals it holds in Long Beach, Calif., recently announced a new leg of the enterprise.

The former German Chancellor began inviting Sloterdijk to gatherings of intellectuals in the nineties, when his broadsides against left-leaning public moralists were first winning him a following among conservative and centrist politicians.

Circa 1908, the Bogdan-Pitești villa on Bucharest's Știrbey-Vodă Street (near the Cișmigiu Gardens) began hosting regular gatherings of intellectuals.