Sentence examples for intellectual centre from inspiring English sources

London is my intellectual centre of gravity.

Calcutta became the intellectual centre of the subcontinent.

Berlin under him never became an important intellectual centre.

Boston was an intellectual centre where new ideas, especially in religion, traveled fast.

León long has been noted as a liberal political and intellectual centre of Nicaragua.

Its fame has been sustained by its continuous prominence as a commercial and intellectual centre.

But they continued to manage local affairs, and some, such as Athens, remained flourishing intellectual centres.

He made his court and the University of Jena leading intellectual centres of Germany during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

From the 9th to the 11th century Latin held sway in the abbeys, the only intellectual centres of the period.

Situated at the Medici villa at Careggi, outside Florence, the academy with its endowment of Greek manuscripts became one of the foremost intellectual centres of Europe.

Visitors from intellectual centres in Italy and Basle and Paris came to scoff, then stayed, and became awed by what they saw.