Sentence examples for intellect rather than from inspiring English sources

It was no accident that Mr. Hawking's wheelchair and elfin face appeared on that book's cover — a rarity for a book of serious intellect — rather than on its back flap.

Temple finds a mentor, her high school science teacher, Dr. Carlock (David Strathairn), one of the first to train Temple to expand her intellect rather than merely control her impulses.

In a liminal land where boundaries are unreliable and endlessly shifting, her women fit right in; her men, by contrast, are lumpen, coarse, animal in intellect rather than in desire.

There's no crying at the Gob Squad's War and Peace; the popular Berlin-based ensemble aim squarely at the intellect rather than the heart, exploring the process of realising oneself as a microparticle within an overwhelming superstructure of historical legacy.

For all its brilliance, The Chemistry of Tears is a novel that speaks to the intellect rather than the heart – it is a complex and expertly crafted piece of machinery, but not an altogether convincing representation of life.

It is hard to read these diaries without feeling enormously nostalgic for a quasi-mythical lost age of public service, a time when politics was about big ideas and the power of intellect rather than petty machinations (not that Benn was above those in his heyday, of course).

Reason rather than whine.

Pimento, who spent eight years alongside Temer in congress, said the vice-president was admired for his intellect and knowledge rather than his passion and ideals.

The ascension of Barack Obama by means of intellect and wisdom rather than physical or musical prowess, the example of his fierce, grounded and equally intelligent wife and their two daughters, deals a mighty blow to racial assumptions.

Wayne Carley, executive director of the National Association of Biology Teachers, said many who oppose dissection "act on emotion rather than intellect".

The rabbinic God was primarily the biblical God who acted in history, the creator and source of life who was experienced through the senses rather than intellect.