I must conclude, therefore, that although many bookshelves are filled with volumes (read or unread) to display their owner's intellect, status or breeding, that most important of all human traits — honest self-awareness — continues to be guarded.
Using this theory, researchers say that we come to music to experiment with identity and define ourselves, and then use it as a social vehicle to establish our group and find a mate, and later as a more solitary expression of our intellect, status and greater emotional understanding.
The belief that certain persons or members of certain classes or groups deserve favored treatment by virtue of their perceived superiority, as in intellect, social status, or financial resources.
Rylance emphasises Cromwell's intellect, wit and underdog status in a world of "gentlemen", to make Crum almost likable, in a steely, unflinching way, even as his principles become more questionable.
Specifically, it is the theoretical intellect that has this status, the practical intellect being subsidiary to it.
What are you looking for in a mate: money, intellect, self-esteem, beauty, status, safety, power, love?
Despite his family's poverty and social status, Narayanan's intellect won him a government-sponsored scholarship.
Rory Being classified as a "nerd" or "uncool" depending on the status of your intellect does not cause any problems that I have discovered.
Distorted by cultural bias, the test is well known to be a better predictor of socioeconomic status than of intellect or academic ability.
In an August 1976 interview, he lashed out at the archetypal Nigerian intellectual, who is divorced from the intellect "but for two things: status and stomach.
They may not enjoy the challenge to their status as bastions of intellect, but if they cling to the mast of populist tactics, they will fade into irrelevance.
