Sentence examples for intellect over from inspiring English sources

A brilliant, sometimes worrisome triumph of intellect over reason.

Still, India has traditionally excelled more at games that favor intellect over brawn and mass, like chess or Scrabble.

Luxuriating in the superiority of their intellect over Americans' has long been a favorite pastime in Britain, surpassing in popularity such games as cricket, darts, and snooker.

Obviously then, being a species of great intellect, over the next two millennia we took on his sensible advice, integrating exercise into our daily life and cashing in on the rewards for our bodies and minds.

But any one who will take the time to read his speeches during several years prior to catholic emancipation will detect the gradual conquest of his intellect over his prejudices.

In each case we have an act of conceptual thought, but no object is formed in intellect over and above the act of thinking itself.

Our current era is one that strenuously favors ideology over intellect and caution over creativity when it comes to the appointment of judges, but once it was not so.

His accessibility, diffident charm and intellect win over western ambassadors.

Looking to the Neoplatonic cosmologies of Al-Farabi and Avicenna, we additionally find metaphors of light to describe the unique influence that the active intellect casts over the sublunar world.

The text has a poetic touch, and engages readers at a level that's respectful of their intellect without soaring over their heads.

Moreover, he emphasized Scotus' voluntarism (the primacy of will over intellect), and attributed a greater role to the juridical element in the theological concepts of God, creation, and revelation.