Sentence examples for intellectual currents from inspiring English sources

Reynolds excels at depicting the cultural, social and intellectual currents that buffeted the nation.

A fourth is a white convert, born in California, who bridges Eastern and Western intellectual currents.

Several intellectual currents joined to make possible the writing of systematic and ambitious literary histories.

Their writing showed an awareness of new intellectual currents, such as the theory of evolution.

Comte's particular ability was as a synthesizer of the most diverse intellectual currents.

Wolff also convincingly argues that Bach's project was unusually resonant with the intellectual currents in Leipzig's university faculty.

Much, though not all, of Mr. Breivik's manifesto is inspired by a relatively new right-wing intellectual current often referred to as counterjihad.

He joined the political and intellectual current of writers, novelists and poets that came to be known as the Sixties Generation.

This German intellectual current culminated in philosophers such as Windelband, Rickert and Dilthey.

The term "Neo-Daoism" seeks to capture the dominant intellectual current or focal development in "early medieval" Chinese philosophy, from the third to the sixth century C.E.

Legalism is a popular albeit quite inaccurate designation of an intellectual current that gained considerable popularity in the latter half of the Warring States period (Zhanguo, 453 221 BCE).