Sentence examples for intellectual affirmation from inspiring English sources
The role models essential to the intellectual affirmation of Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri are unmasked, while secret inspirations such as Le Corbusier's Toward an Architecture are revealed.
At its best, "Another Beauty" is a convincing affirmation of intellectual joys like jazz and classical music, Polish and French church architecture and the heady bohemia of student life.
In Orientalism, Said argued that much of the Western study of Islamic civilization was political intellectualism meant for European self-affirmation, rather than for objective intellectual enquiry and academic study of Eastern cultures.
The phenomenon is attested in the clinical literature as a form of narcissistic abuse whereby the extreme narcissist attempts to satisfy his pathological need for constant affirmation and esteem (for "narcissistic supply") by converting vulnerable people into intellectual and emotional slaves whom he paradoxically despises for their victimhood.
Crichlow, MA. "Creole Self-Affirmation: De-centering Resistance in the Context of Globalization". In Intellectual Traditions of the Caribbean, edited by G Richards and et al. University of the West Indies Press, 2010.
First comes perceptual affirmation.
Are we seeking affirmation?
She smiles in affirmation.
Individual affirmation is discouraged.
