Sentence examples for intellectual conservatism from inspiring English sources

Take Berkeley's English department, hardly a bastion of intellectual conservatism.

And it brings to its present end the story of how intellectual conservatism rose and fell.

His great single achievement was to make intellectual conservatism respectable for the first time for a generation.

So there has grown up in the past ten years a realistic intellectual conservatism, addressed to the needs of our time.

For all his social and intellectual conservatism he never ceased to feel himself in sympathy with the enlightened intellectual currents and political strivings of the age and with their tolerant and humanitarian aspects.

They wanted to believe that everything was known already – Browne tried to reconcile Harvey with Galen – but it was an intellectual conservatism that could be preserved only by endless cataloguing.

For too long, opera directors have got away with installing themselves in the progressive zone of musical life, dismissing all resistance to their work as anti-intellectual conservatism.

Whatever its abstract intellectual roots, conservatism has since at least the sixties drawn its political strength by appealing to heartland identity politics.

There is, he says, a "void in the mind of the Labour party" which leads us into "intellectual timidity, conservatism and conventionality, which keeps policy trailing tardily in the rear of realities".

John Kerry has failed to mount an intellectual assault on conservatism in the way that Bill Clinton did in 1992.

Some of those candidates, like Mr. Ryan, can probably offer a richer intellectual defense of conservatism, or can claim to have been better vetted.