Sentence examples for intellectual downfall from inspiring English sources

While people may decry the decline of our ability to use words, citing some sort of societal intellectual downfall, really we've learnt to use TV as a buffer to give us room to think.

"I Was a Maoist Intellectual in the Music Industry" is the doleful memoir of a failed musical revolutionary: "My downfall came from being three things the working classes hated: / Agitated, organised and over-educated".

Drink played its part in their downfall, though it doesn't wholly explain why Jane could start out as Kingsley's lover and intellectual companion only to become, practically speaking, his drudge, cook and chauffeur.

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That was my downfall".

A political downfall.

That was our downfall.

"Drugs were his downfall".

Her downfall in "Cartwheel" does not suggest a young woman's failed attempt at sexual liberation so much as it does an intellectual's failed attempt to be carefree.

Tubing was my downfall.

Prohibition was its downfall.