Sentence examples for intellectual bringing from inspiring English sources

Psychological insight is merely intellectual, bringing with it no apparent practical application: as a girl Plath laments, "I am a victim of introspection"; as a mature woman she writes, "It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative -- which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

New York Jewish intellectuals brought Singer to American literature the way one might bring a beloved uncle over from the Old Country.

Finally, in 1980, the Politburo exiled him to the closed city of Gorky, and he lived there until December of 1986, when Mikhail Gorbachev, in an effort to win support from the West and from his own country's intellectuals, brought him home.

This was a far-reaching social and intellectual revolution, bringing about new religious ideas together with new art forms and theocratic regimes.

The rational core of nostalgia for grammar schools is that they were, at their finest, intellectual hothouses bringing working-class kids to the world of ideas and debate.

But in a way it makes perfect sense, since Jiang Zemin has transformed Chinese Communism during his tenure by embracing entrepreneurs and intellectuals and bringing his country into the World Trade Organization, moving it center stage on world markets.

The word "intellectual" often brings a lot of dull baggage with it.

He was also a serious intellectual who brought considerable intelligence to his productions.

An old friend of Mr. Sarkozy's, the public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, brought key Libyans to see Mr. Sarkozy in early March.

Readers accustomed to garden literature's usual frothy appreciations and dry how-to's will be dazzled at the intellectual power brought to bear on the subject by Borchardt (1877-1945), an eccentric and obscure German poet and translator.

HI: Littorai 2006 Pinot Noir, Savoy Vineyard, Anderson Valley ($60) Ted Lemon is a wine-world intellectual who brings a deep background in Burgundy to the vineyard.