While this word usually has a negative connotation -- if someone called any of us ignorant, we'd leap to defend our fragile intellectual egos -- we hold that it can be positive.
And a few days after the death of Ted Sorensen, Kennedy's intellectual alter ego, counselor, and speechwriter, whom I got to know when he served as national co-chair of Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaigns.
Source Adapted from Gusmano et al. (2006) Variable Rationale Data descriptions 1. Older population size The degree of frailty increases with age, thereby leading to physical and cognitive decline and limited competence [that is, physical and mental health, intellectual capacity or ego strength (Lawton 1977)].
Possessed of a sharp mind and tongue, rare intellectual honesty and an ego as big as the pyramids of Teotihuacán, he divides opinion.
His intellectual brilliance, well-developed ego and strong opinions should well equip him to lead the university in times of great and rapid change.
The two evolutionary biologists had well-armored egos, their intellectual battles were spectacular, and they did not share laughs over pints afterward.
And since socializing in those narrow literary and intellectual precincts consisted of egos battling for position, status, friendship, and love, it was inevitable that the criticism embody and sometimes exemplify what Delmore Schwartz — no mean takedown artist himself — once called "the scrimmage of appetite".
And since socializing in those narrow literary and intellectual precincts consisted of egos battling for position, status, friendship, and love, it was inevitable that the criticism embody and sometimes exemplify what Delmore Schwartz no mean takedown artist himself once called "the scrimmage of appetite".
The pragmatic, handy Andrew loves it there, but the intellectual Robert, O'Neill's alter ego, is filled with wanderlust, longing to escape to that magical world beyond the you-know-what.
