Sentence examples similar to intellectual contender from inspiring English sources
As literary culture continues on its downhill trajectory -- sliding from the heights of serious thinking to the crass demands of the bottom line -- it becomes ever harder to believe in that not too distant past where intellectuals qualified as contenders for something other than dusty symposiums and the mingy rewards of academic prestige.
If he can acquire a little of the dour Scotsman's intellectual seriousness, he will be a real contender at the next election.
Inside Pound Hall, the editors picked apart the intellectual and social skills of the 19 contenders, eliminating them in batches.
U.S. Representative Ron Paul, the Republican presidential contender who has been called the "intellectual godfather" of the movement, is anti-war and non-interventionist.
In this regard, Augustine's illuminationism is a worthy contender among more familiar attempts to make intellectual cognition epistemically secure and reliable.
OPDO chairman Abadula Gemeda, the butt of "the city's political jokes", is considered a possible contender and given full credit for his own "comical intellectual pretensions".
When it comes time for awards, they throw up their hands — not unreasonably, but not with fully intellectual honesty either — saying there wasn't a worthy field of contenders from which to choose.
The next big film with nominations to be scheduled, "The Contender," is due on March 6. "Outstanding political thriller may be too intellectual for the mainstream," says The Monitor.
Tesla is one such contender, although it seems likely that the value of its new ideas and intellectual property will need to offset its massive investments in physical assets ($5 billion in battery technologies alone).
