Sentence examples for intellectual characters from inspiring English sources

She takes unapologetic delight in intellectual characters who understand their lives through far-ranging reading and lively conversation.

Although he says of his frivolous intellectual characters, "They are me," he doesn't just play with ideas, he's after the truth.

Swanberg focusses on a narrow slice of reality, a slender patch of urban-postgrad turf, but he observes it intimately and passionately; few intellectual characters speak as articulately, and elaborate their feelings as plausibly, as his Hannah.

She clearly despised the lack of clarity which she believed came with Northern liberalism, and which she lampoons with her intellectual characters, who always function in a kind of godless oligarchy.

A book that punches its way, bare-knuckled, through every millennial New York novel centring around middle-class intellectual characters, Atticus Lish's PEN/Faulkner award-winning debut chronicles the romance between Zou Lei, an illegal immigrant from north-west China, and Brad Skinner, an Iraq war veteran.

To many listeners, the music of the south has a restrained and intellectual character as compared with the music of the more secular Hindustani traditions.

It's the studied affectation of the "look" -- pseudo-scruffy, half-tied tie, tousled hair -- that belies any spirit of true rebellion or the intellectual character of real rebels.

When she found herself in a bad-mood rut, she had agreed with her therapist, she would visualize Twilight Sparkle, the nerdy intellectual character in the animated children's show "My Little Pony" — of which her knowledge bordered on encyclopedic and whose goofiness made her laugh.

This side of his work, while of no obvious philosophical interest (in the way we conceive the discipline today anyway), I believe reveals something important about Dummett's intellectual character, and something not irrelevant to our understanding of his contributions in philosophy proper.

Even if we turn from a Latin derivative to Greek – an intellectual if desperate act in itself – we end up back whence we fled, with "eidos": "The distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or social group".

It has an intellectual character, is a grasp of something that is intelligible, and requires "a certain level of intellectual spirituality" (ibid., p. 49).