The mindgames begin when Nathan tells Caleb his job is to interview the state-of-the-art female AI robot he has invented and see if he can detect any artificiality in her intelligence.
In interviews with 20 women in their late 70s and 80s, most said they supported Mrs. Clinton based on qualities they saw in her — intelligence, confidence and capability — rather than her positions on issues.
In her intelligence, in her gimlet-eyed recognition of both the limits and the possibilities of government, she's a particular kind of inspirational figure, a pragmatist and a Democratic moderate.
One of the biggest appeals of this series is found in Kestrel, a character whose power resides in her intelligence and cunning.
My mother was so lonely, so solitary, so isolated in her intelligence as a child that she invented invisible nurturing friends -- Miss Sippi and Miss Loane -- to whose house she would repair for high tea (a tale for another time).
But in her intelligence-committee job, which she held for seventeen years, she modelled herself on Machiavelli's maxim that it is better to be feared than loved.
I think what they saw, and what they recognized, was the character of Hermione herself, in all her intelligence, intensity and occasional superciliousness.
In fact, she seems chronically cheerful and awestruck, which--in combination with her intelligence, education, creativity and unique skill sets--has made her a kind of perfect scientific subject.
But in actuality she can find peace in the moment being in harmony with her intelligence, resourcefulness, courage and resiliency--whether or not she knows it.
When I think of Sylvia Plath, I am in awe of her intelligence, her language, her wit, her consonantal music – her sheer gift, and what must have been her drive, as its guardian, possessor, possessee, to realise it.
Hughes and Plath, a Fulbright scholar, were the proverbial opposites that attract: in spite of her intelligence, Plath was ferociously conventional, desperate to achieve success on the world's terms as well as her own.
