Sentence examples for intellectual air from inspiring English sources

The opening had an intellectual air that has been missing from the Hong Kong scene.

An English major, Sims can sometimes speak with an intellectual air.

Such insights were in the intellectual air by the mid-1960s.

Even at its poppiest, with Erasure, Mute maintains an intellectual air.

The intellectual air has gone stale in Egypt from too many years of controlled press and authoritarian politics.

Nietzsche had declared God dead and the intellectual air was thick with talk of the degeneration of the races and the need for some kind of renewal.

Further analogous to Obama-against whom they first tried the label of Chicago machine politician-Stevenson was labelled an "egghead" by a powerful Republican, based on his baldness and intellectual air-a bit more imaginative than McCain's "elite".

Some Israeli intellectuals are airing the notion of "Post-Zionism".

"With the deep-sunk colored pouches under his eyes, the cigarette always in hand like an intellectual gesture, an air that combined weariness, vanity, and immense caution, he was already a personage," Alfred Kazin wrote about meeting Trilling for the first time, in 1942.

Barnes calls for using such trusts to treat resources like clean air, intellectual property, and the electromagnetic spectrum as commons from which we are entitled to " liberty and dividends for all".

They are either dangerous radicals, committed to destroying a Canadian way of life, or they are useless intellectuals, blathering hot air instead of getting a job and contributing.