Sentence examples for intellectual encounter from inspiring English sources

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | FridayMondayTHE 29TH Olympiad begins, at least for me, with what should be a great intellectual encounter.

While, as Steven Connor argues, the canon of modern Western philosophy has had its share of sporting thinkers - Jacques Derrida was a goalkeeper, AJ Ayer a decent middle-order batsman – the intellectual encounter has been lacklustre.

In 1995, Kathy Acker – writer, artist, punk icon, best known for her transgressive, experimental novel Blood and Guts in High School – emailed cultural theorist McKenzie Wark, or rather he emailed her as she flew back to the US from Australia after their brief sexual and intellectual encounter.

The route is a rut carved by all-male fellowship in sacred learning, privileging masculinity in thinking about closeness to Divinity and mostly missing the kind of intellectual encounter with representatives of another gender - the fringe, so to speak, that is half of humankind - which might challenge the tendency.

Added to these aesthetic and intellectual encounters with Islamic religion was the way maleness in Egypt's Muslim society gave the finger to American gender norms.

In the 18th century curious intellectuals encountered Catholicism in Beijing and smuggled it home.

Mr Leeming is unsparing of the gay episodes that punctuated it.From 1953 Spender co-edited the intellectual journal Encounter for more than ten years and was embarrassed by the revelation that the CIA had paid for it.

Or I can say fuck it, and that gives me the freedom to explore the world in a different way and to present a different mode of intellectual experimentation and encounter.

"It's common to encounter intellectual property cases related to phony products, but this is the first time we've come across a scheme locally involving counterfeit store coupons," Claude Arnold, special agent in charge for ICE's Homeland Security Investigations division in Los Angeles, said in a statement.

The findings of the Dutch studies suggest that there is a greater chance of late manifestation of dyslexia in samples of children with familial risk but intellectual proficiency who encounter relatively favourable instructional circumstances in the pre-reading phase and in the first grade.

Edsbacka Krog's is the most intellectual cooking we encountered, but it never seems overwrought.