Sentence examples for intellectual dead from inspiring English sources

"Science is an intellectual dead end," Mr Allen huffs near the end of "Sleeper".

Mr. Buchanan's 1992 and 1996 campaigns were dismissed as a political and intellectual dead end for Republicans.

Moses Herzog is a professor in the full throes of midlife crisis who writes countless letters to the famous literary and intellectual dead.

The House run by John Boehner is stuffed with zealots and intellectual dead-enders who think compromise is a synonym for treason.

Cultivating the state of not-knowing through practices such as zazen (sitting meditation) is a radical, experiential approach that undercuts the rational brain, so prone to tie itself up in concepts that lead to intellectual dead-ends.

LIZADONNELLY: Judy, you betcha IAN PARKER: Peter York, style commentator, on BBC, discussing Alexander McQueen: "He is what we intellectuals call dead" JUDITH: She does look lovely and happy and even he does QUESTION FROM BRONWYN : Just explained lamb to the slaughter to my 8-yr-old watching & reading along with me.

She guards against deploying too many mere "thoughtlets," as she calls them, but too much dead intellectual weight can kill a poem too.

Electronic Arts is investing in new intellectual properties, and Dead Space looks as if it should be a fabulous addition to the company's library.

After the second world war, it was the turn of the left, and anti-marxists such as Raymond Aron and Jean-François Revel were the exception.By the 1980s, however, the moral and economic shambles of Sovietism, the victory of a centre-minded Socialist party and the growing influence of television in politics had so altered the terms of debate that the left intellectual was pronounced dead.

Intellectual curiosity is dead, as is social responsibility.

In terms of finding new lands, agreed; but in terms of finding new intellectual adventures, this is dead wrong.