If the law was the great love of Deborah's hard working intellect, it was literature that was her first love.
Which, after all, was based on the hard ground of intellect.
But even if Uwamanzu-Nna's accomplishments are doubtlessly due to her own hard work and intellect, the public high school's record is near immaculate.
A hard, ambitious, oversure intellect ready to make political deals that the more squeamish might shrink from — a real pol, and yet one who, particularly as a woman in an age that is still in many respects sexist, might have little political appeal?
For all his intellect, hard work and cookie-baking skills, if he had been born in Bangladesh he knows his net worth today would be a tiny fraction of his current billions.
The progress from Sputnik through man's landing on the Moon to today's exploration of the planet Mars and the possibility of future visits there -- a matter of little more than half a century -- is hard for the intellect to grasp.
In 1998, Tomlinson was described as possessing "the air of slight arrogance that goes with good looks, a hard-trained body and a sharp intellect".
While the energy of Graham's intellect is hard to dispute, the nature of his "vision" is another matter.
By dint of intellect and hard work, he became grudgingly accepted as its ranking expert on international finance.
