I'm not suggesting that we could or should turn off our intellect when engaging with matters of faith – that way lies potentially dangerous superstition.
Nick only started to reveal his true intellect when Walton Hospital in Merseyside took him off the drug after 20 years of treatment.
We mourn the loss of our dear friend, Robert Hirschfeld, a man of warmth, grace, and intellect when he was well, when he was ill, and even in the last hours of his life.
He never retired from his house of intellect; when he was in his 90s, his 800-page cultural survey, "From Dawn to Decadence," was a best seller, proving conservative cultural criticism ain't dead.
As played by Michael Gambon, who prowls round the stage like a caged bear, Tom is a man of limited vision but sharp intellect: when, for instance, he attacks his wife's proprietary use of the word "spiritual" ("People use it to prove they're sensitive"), or seizes on Kyra's self-punishing desire to live and work on opposite sides of London, he scores direct hits.
And from a metaphysical perspective, the main problem is how to individuate this separate intellect when it is manifested in many individuals: for if it is individuated materially on the basis that individual bodies differ, then the substance is no longer incorporeal or separate.
Tywin compliments Arya on her intellect when she tells Tywin that she thought it was safer to travel dressed like a boy.
One East of Eden strength is its philosophizing Chinese-American character Lee, who "plays dumb" in front of anti-Asian bigots in late 1800s/early 1900s California but displays his considerable intellect when conversing with more open-minded people.
In 2002-03, running in the same "public intellectual" circles as Miller, was the late Christopher Hitchens who tirelessly traversed the country offering up every convincing-sounding argument in favor of toppling the government in Baghdad while willingly neutering his formidable intellect when it came to any possible downside to launching aggressive war in the heart of the Arab world.
However, he leaves his reader in the dark as to how they proceed from God, claiming that the human intellect is too limited to grasp this and that the philosophers err when they assume that the intellect can know everything.
