Sentence examples for intellectual critic from inspiring English sources

Liu, a former Beijing Normal University professor, is a leading intellectual critic of the repressive Chinese government.

But in the end, it was that all-purpose pianist, intellectual, critic and raconteur Huneker who played the greatest role in the creation of Dvorak's American style.

The problem here for Mr. Obama is that, almost 18 months after assuming office, he still seems to regard himself as something of an intellectual critic of government, when, in fact, what Americans expect from him now is markedly different.

In all those states, the political map had been drawn by Democratic-led legislatures, so it was natural for him, as a Republican, to team up with conservative donors, the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute, and fellow ideologues like Abigail Thernstrom, arguably the leading intellectual critic of racial preferences and the Voting Rights Act.

Intellectual critics are unsettled by the very idea of such a huge memorial.

Intellectual critics insist that the journalist, stage left, must inform, that the official, stage right, must govern.

"My movies were a lot more underground then, and many intellectual critics didn't take me seriously".

In 1957, Deng oversaw the "anti-rightist campaign," a "vicious attack on 550,000 intellectual critics" that "destroyed many of China's best scientific and technical minds".

In this unusual book, filled with pictures, he claimed that intellectual critics were wrong to condemn Hollywood for getting things wrong in the movies.

And Soviet experts were on hand to supervise, as Mao instituted land reforms, abolished private property, silenced intellectual critics, segregated rural and urban populations, and launched Stalinist-style purges against counter-revolutionaries and rich peasants.

Yet for all their differences, the Beats and their intellectual critics were both in open rebellion against middlebrow culture and values, which Dwight Macdonald saw epitomized by the Book of the Month Club and the New York Times best-seller list.