Sentence examples for intellectual confronts from inspiring English sources

The renowned French intellectual confronts his country's leftists on a range of issues in the wake of Sarkozy's election.

Being Wenger, he did not rage about it, but adopted the pained expression of a football intellectual confronted by a terrible logic.

Moses Herzog, like many of Bellow's heroes, is a Jewish intellectual who confronts a world peopled by sanguine, incorrigible realists.

The stage was set for one of those moments, familiar from revolutions past, in which an intellectual hero confronts an oppressive ruler and eloquently voices the grievances of a nation.

In a leader column, the Mail on Sunday said Miliband's "accident-prone and clumsy bumbling, his awkwardness with children and poorly chosen gifts are exactly what one might expect from a Hampstead intellectual suddenly confronted with the outside world".

At the GP-level, the study was considered by some GPs to be too intellectual or confronting for their patients, perhaps relating to the focus on adherence issues.

In part, this is because Trimble has never lacked the intellectual confidence to confront Republicanism.

Unlike Lord Russell's beautiful friend, she did not comfort Mosby for the disasters he had (by intellectual commitment) to confront.

The suicide, however tragic, seemed to confirm both Benjamin's bleak view of history's tragedies and the importance of his intellectual attempts to confront them.

A somewhat similar dilemma about the preeminent value of intellectual skills may confront people who acquire a cognitive disability later in their lives.

In fact, I've seen students as young as fourteen whole-heartedly embrace the intellectual challenge of confronting the competing values that any legal system must balance.