Sentence examples for intellectual characteristic from inspiring English sources

John Summerson pointed out, in an influential essay written more than 60 years ago, that both Wren's scientific work and his architecture were marked by a high degree of empiricism, of a kind that was an intellectual characteristic of his period.

This intellectual characteristic earned him a dedicated following, but was criticized by many of his peers, who found it artificial and outdated.

Traditionally, man has been seen as having dominion over animals because of his superior capacity for reason, language, technology and other intellectual characteristics valued in philosophy.

Difficult to pigeonhole Mistrust of the zeitgeist is one of Benedict's outstanding intellectual characteristics, possibly a consequence of his having been born into a society that inflicted untold suffering on the world because it fell into unthinking conformity.

No substantial, shared exegetical protocol or tradition, whether in fully spelled-out statements in so many words, or in the gist of ideas, or in topical conventions, or in intellectual characteristics, governed the two Talmuds' reading of the same Mishnah paragraph.

The teacher facilitates the development of the social and intellectual characteristics of learning environments.

The developmental and intellectual characteristics of all the enrolled patients are presented in Table 2. Routine haematology and biochemistry including glucose, ammonia, lactate, and thyroid function tests in plasma were performed.

The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems endowed with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience.

"Scholasticism" refers to the intellectual culture characteristic of the medieval schools.

Dawkins exhibits none of an intellectual's characteristic ability to understand the second side of the argument.

This is a characteristic intellectual gesture by Thomas — to assert that government poisons whatever it touches.