Sentence examples for intellectual equivalent from inspiring English sources

It's the intellectual equivalent of a Hollywood weepie".

There is no intellectual equivalent of the hundred-yard dash.

College should give them the intellectual equivalent of their childhood sleepover experience.

In 1990, Sir Geoffrey Elton called postmodern literary theory "the intellectual equivalent of crack".

"It is the intellectual equivalent of a Hollywood weepie," she said.

Some traditionalists warn that digital reading is the intellectual equivalent of empty calories.

Seligman and Joe make a big psychophilosophical kerfuffle over eating rugelach with a cake fork and the choice of which hand's nails to cut first, a secular-intellectual equivalent of seeing Jesus in the cake frosting.

The edginess she displays as Sonja during their sophomoric discussions in "Love and Death" is an edginess that both enthralls Allen's own recurring film character and seems to infect him with an intellectual's equivalent of hives.

Mr. Stadnyk sees his courtroom quest as the intellectual property equivalent of the recent constitutional challenge to the Obama administration's health insurance overhaul, in legislation that was narrowly upheld by the Supreme Court.

This is a little like the intellectual property equivalent of how Russia switched from the Soviet-style command economy to a capitalist/market economy — where the goal is to drive more enterprise.

All subjects were also required to have scores on the ADHD-RS-IV with adult prompts ≥ 28 at baseline and a level of intellectual functioning equivalent to an intelligence quotient of ≥ 80 on the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test [ 28].