Hence the misdirection of much of modern capitalism — since it's pouring its energies into coming up with ever more clever ways to sell us things we don't need, rather than applying intellect to figure out what we really need and selling us that instead.
As Wonder Woman, she powers through obstacles with sheer force (bending bars, flipping cars) but, just as often, as Diana Prince, she uses her intellect to figure out ways around them.
Such are they who rule aright both states and families; while those forms of flesh, devoid of intellect, are but figure-heads in the market-place.
His friends called him "Preacher," both for his religious faith and his intellect, his ability to "figure anything out". But growing up in the early 20th-century South as one of 13 children, Willie Clark never learned to read and thus had few opportunities.
By virtue of his imposing physique, charismatic personality and ferocious intellect, he became a central figure in the avant-garde art scene.
Outside the system, President Obama whatever his policy errors is a figure of imposing intellect and dignity.
It doesn't take much intellect or baseball intelligence to figure out the problem Galarraga poses for the Mets.
Here he is not a figure of glistening intellect and Machiavellian complexity but simply an ambitious, offended man subject to the same base instincts many are heir to: envy, a taste for mischief and malice, and the same sexual jealousy he recognizes in Othello.
Bell's life was touched by considerable sadness — it's probable that her death, at the age of fifty-seven, wasuicidecide — but the woman who emerges in Howell's impressive synthesis is a figure of great intellect, political prescience, and indefatigable spirit.
The student can pick any such mentor or figure that symbolizes intellect and/or aspirations that the student has.
