Sentence examples for intellectual demonstration from inspiring English sources

Priscian's reference to intellectual demonstration was found useful, and the thought that a demonstrative could refer either to something absent or to something spiritual was supplemented by a further kind of intellectual demonstration in which the thing actually pointed to is not numerically identical to the thing signified and to which the predicate applies.

As I tried to argue earlier in this series, the belief in God in rooted in religious practice not in intellectual demonstration.

Leaving aside intellectual demonstration, which occurs when an object is incorporeal or absent (see §8), we can note that the use of a demonstrative pronoun in normal circumstances has the implication that the object pointed to must be present to the speaker.

The young Yalie impresses his fellow students by remembering all their names and nicknames - the one demonstration of intellectual firepower the movie permits him.

"Nothing will do more to change the mental attitude and raise [the Negro's] status," claimed essayist James Weldon Johnson, "than a demonstration of intellectual parity by the Negro through his production of literature and art".

The leading members of the Karabakh Committee, a group of intellectuals leading the demonstrations, were arrested in December 1988, but were freed in May 1989.

As if we needed another demonstration of the intellectual infirmities of contemporary conservatism, Margaret Spellings offers a reductivist example when she equates creationism with Darwinian evolution as "points of view" to be taught in a high-school curriculum (Deborah Solomon, May 22).

In a way, "Housekeeping" is meant as a sort of demonstration of the intellectual culture of my childhood.

While weeks of protests in the capital, Sana, have been tense, with repeated clashes between pro and antigovernment forces, the demonstration in Taiz, the intellectual hub of the country, took on a hopeful, exhilarated feel Friday.

Providing all students in elementary, middle and high schools, wherever located and by whomever populated, with the highest quality faculty and facilities possible will allow for the development and demonstration of such expected intellectual merit.

At the 1992 Games, intellectual disability skiers competed in a demonstration event.