Sentence examples for intellectual abandon from inspiring English sources

David Welsh of Comic World News had more mixed feelings about the first volume; although he praised the aesthetic, premise, translation, and guignols, he wrote that Yuki's work would be more appealing "if she could just strike that balance between creative focus and intellectual abandon and emotional shamelessness".

The New Left also seems to have rediscovered democracy, which many intellectuals abandoned as impractical (and politically dangerous) after the 1989 crackdown.

Similarly, in China, many critical intellectuals abandoned Marxist ideas as Deng Xiaoping ushered in neoliberal reforms in the 1980's.

On the side of betrayal, what occurred during this period is that many formerly committed critical intellectuals abandoned their fidelity to radical ideas and chose to become integrated into various movements of liberal thought such as the French New Philosophers movement.

De Beauvoir's semiautobiographical novel addressed the attempts of post-World War II leftist intellectuals to abandon their elite, "mandarin" status and to engage in political activism.

A philosopher appeals to American intellectuals to abandon the cynicism of the academic left in favor of the political ideals of Emerson, Whitman and their allies.

The Left's successful appropriation of centrist political tools led some prominent intellectuals to abandon their former affiliation with liberalism and identity as neoconservative.

It did not take me long to realise that fear of clerical fascism had led Bentham's trembling successors to abandon intellectual inquiry and basic intellectual standards along with it.

His book Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era received an American Book Award.

In 1980 the rise of the neocons liberal intellectuals who abandoned a spineless Democratic Party was reinforced by the birth of working class "Reagan Democrats".

Given his rarefied style, it was instructive to read in a recent New Yorker profile that Mr. Jia has been criticized by some Chinese intellectuals for "abandoning his most subversive themes". This criticism might be due to the fact that Mr. Jia, who once flew under the government's radar, now shoots his movies with its official approval.