He was a man whose powerful intellect drew the notice of influential patrons and enabled him to leapfrog most of his cohort in the Foreign Service.
It reminds me of one other lie only one other lie, ever in my life that I have told, that this kind of music is for people who try too hard to hide their inferior intellect by drawing elaborate, impossible comparisons between Tarkovsky movies and a dream they had once but say is recurring.
Yet while Arendt's intellect helped draw him to her, he is deeply patronizing about her intellectual ambitions.
Not every smart player will find that his intellect is drawn upon; a good deal depends on his position.
But emotional nuance was not Picasso's strength; a caveman with a ferocious analytic intellect, he was drawn to the mythic and the archetypal on the one hand and endlessly fascinated by the ways and means of painting on the other.
They are "lights in themselves … visible through themselves without the help of something else" (OO II suppl., 210b; Teske 2000, 443), and they serve to illuminate to the intellect the conclusions drawn from them.
Possessing a unique intellect, he had a deep appreciation for the arts expressed in drawing and his un-ending devotion to playing classical piano.
He who comes down from there can neither know or tell what he has seen, for, drawing near to its desire, so deeply is our intellect immersed that memory cannot follow after it.
He used his superb intellect, unusual powers of observation, and mastery of the art of drawing to study nature itself, a line of inquiry that allowed his dual pursuits of art and science to flourish.
In a survey of blog posts about Super Bowl spots by Collective Intellect, the Salesgenie commercials drew the most negative discussion.
