Sentence examples for intellectual encounters from inspiring English sources

And later the intellectual encounters with Neil Smelser, my thesis supervisor, Ken Bock, and Jürgen Habermas – who was visiting professor in 1980 – shaped my professional life.

Published in 1924, The Magic Mountain is a novel of education, tracing the intellectual growth of a budding engineer through a maze of intellectual encounters during a seven- year sojourn in a sanatorium set high in the Swiss Alps.

Sinan holds an MS in management and information systems from the University of Manchester and an MA in intellectual encounters of the Islamicate world from the Free University of Berlin.

They include "utilitarian" values, which lead people to think of natural resources as goods to be tapped; "naturalistic" values, which center on positive physical, emotional, and intellectual encounters with the nonhuman world; and "ecologistic-scientific" values, whose focus is the patterns, structures, and functions in nature.

After two weeks of intensive exchanges between the trio in Chicago in 2012, the conversations between Mitchell and the playwrights have evolved from an informational interview into an engaging and productive series of intellectual encounters around questions of biblical interpretation and the discipline of theology.

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.

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

Born in the "Freiburg School," the idea of a Sozialmarktwirtschafi is in fact the product of a fruitful intellectual encounter among lawyers (B6hm and Grossman-Doerth) and economists (Eucken).

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.