Sentence examples for intellectual desert from inspiring English sources

"My childhood & youth were an intellectual desert," she wrote when she was in her sixties.

China has metamorphosed from an isolated, intellectual desert into fertile ground for cultural exchange.

In Wills's words, he has "created an intellectual desert and called it peace".

The clamoring now in the United States for a presidency that uplifts rather than demeans is a reflection of the intellectual desert of the Bush years.

Have modern 21st century Republicans pitched their tent in the intellectual desert?

Hans Frank echoed him: "The Poles do not need universities or secondary schools; the Polish lands are to be converted into an intellectual desert".

It might turn some of our town centres into intellectual deserts.

THE underlying issue -- whether business practices are best taught in an academic setting or should be learned on the job, as they are in an apprenticeship -- is at least as old as the M.B.A. Since Harvard started awarding the degree in 1910, some educators have derided business schools as intellectual deserts.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge once defined him as "intellectual power deserted by all grace, all moral principle".

This is, in part, because of his own timidity; eager he may have been to pursue a figure of speech to its unnatural conclusion, but, in theology, his intellectual nerve deserted him.

Although plans for its career-pathway program are nebulous, such a leadership-development program is sorely needed in a field that, for the most part, has been an intellectual and innovation desert for the past decade.