Sentence examples for intellectual at from inspiring English sources

Like so many of Mr. Bellow's heroes, Ravelstein is an intellectual "at ease with large statements, big issues and famous men," but he's also an unabashed sybarite with a taste for expensive clothes and fine antiques.

"I'm not intellectual at all.

The son of a prominent Shanghai banker, Mr Liu found himself branded an intellectual at the start of the Cultural Revolution.

"It was one of the few times, I think, in black history when as a young person you could be cool and intellectual at the same time".

Thomas Jay Ryan as the deranged intellectual at war with mediocrity seems truly possessed -- by turns, manic, tortured, radiant, finally transcendent.

Americans were lucky to have a first-rate Enlightenment intellectual at the desk in 1876, able to put immortal words to paper.

You might wonder how large the sample size of books was, or conclude that this activity at best sounds alarmingly anti-intellectual; at worst, something that Homer Simpson's next door neighbour would reject as too facile.

Voegelin's thesis excited intellectuals at National Review.

"Our market research showed Czechs were not refined intellectuals at all.

His secondary point is that you neglect intellectuals at your peril, however crazy they sound.

Botticelli and his fellow intellectuals at the Medici court were fans of Plato.