Sentence examples for intellectual allure from inspiring English sources

It is one of the nation's elite universities; it adds high-paying jobs and intellectual allure to the city and to the Village.

"It's got the intellectual allure of all these contingencies and all this strategy, but at the same time it is so powerfully connecting us to the intuitive joys of childhood, that elemental stuff: Can you make a miracle?

And what would happen if you get another shot?" If true crime entertainments capture a certain vein of obsession these days, that's because they present a miscarriage of justice like Syed's life sentence, and the intellectual allure comes from trying to figure out the mystery.

Intellectual allure may have trumped financial considerations for many students over this period.

Here was playing of technical brilliance, tonal allure, intellectual drive, and an elusive quality that the Germans indicate with the word Innigkeit, or inwardness.

Jean-Louis is a man not only beset by doubts, but tempted by the intellectual and sexual allure of Fabian's Maud.

It is work of admirable ambition and, indeed, perhaps its chief flaw is that it feels bulky and overloaded, determined not only to make its intellectual points about the allure and precariousness of the penchant for self-invention, but to offer a psychological explanation for it as well.

For all his project's technological allure, Mr. Dutton's intellectual credo is notably old-fashioned.

Forced technology transfer, intellectual-property theft and cybercrime have all reduced the allure of the Chinese market.Financial services have been a particular disappointment.

Part of his allure for what a friend calls "all those smart-ass, hyper-intellectuals in Paris and Brooklyn" may be that he makes the average reader feel stupid.

Something of its allure can be seen in the revelation – distressing to those of us who like our intellectuals to be Olympian figures, detached from the mundane human traffic beneath them – that most of the "serious" players of 20th-century culture were incorrigible gossips.