Sentence examples for intellectual credence from inspiring English sources

Qutb's ideas, including on the inevitability of a civilisational clash, gave intellectual credence to the biggest nationalist movement, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.

Dish's interloping at the very least lends intellectual credence to the idea that Sprint is trying to grab Clearwire on the cheap.

In recent years, however, his fortunes had begun to wane because of competition from both raunchier sex magazines and those that had expanded their coverage to lend intellectual credence to their pornographic content.

The religion of science is giving way to something else as the new physics helps us understand such concepts as the holographic universe and string theory, while at the same time lending intellectual credence to a complete reappraisal of what we think we know about life, the universe, and everything.

On the contrary, he championed notions that had percolated in Wilhelmine Germany and had been steadily gaining credence in intellectual and bourgeois circles.

The intellectuals have been accused of giving credence to the ideas of Marine Le Pen's far-right Front National, although they have no connection to the party.

But without stifling the objections noted above -- and without giving credence to the trivializing, anti-intellectual rebuttal that it's only a movie (only, as opposed to what?) -- "A Beautiful Mind" deserves to be judged on its own terms.

The Algerian government is furious at the credence the French media and intellectuals have given to The Dirty War, a detailed and shocking account of almost a decade of alleged Algerian army involvement in the massacre of tens of thousands of innocent civilians.

Tetlock notes, sadly, a point that Richard Posner has made about these kinds of public intellectuals, which is that most of them are dealing in "solidarity" goods, not "credence" goods.

Embellishments gained credence.

You have to give him some credence.