Sentence examples for intellectual event from inspiring English sources

His passing is an intellectual event as well as a political one.

You could say it's a great political and intellectual event of our time, even a moral event.

A meditation on climatic extremes, prompting thoughts of one coast drenched in floods and the other parched by drought, the program was that rarest of classical happenings: an intellectual event.

The book is, nonetheless, sure to be a major intellectual event (look for an excerpt in The Times Magazine this Sunday) because it superbly encapsulates Kahneman's research, and the vast tide of work that has been sparked by it.

Gopnik offered his hypothesis last November at Canada's biggest annual intellectual event, the Massey Lectures, which since 1961 have featured speakers like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Margaret Atwood.

The imputation of Védrine, the French schoolteachers, and thousands of other commentators is that various internal deficiencies have excluded Islam from this indispensable cultural and intellectual event, without which no culture can be considered modern.

Even five years ago, he said, it was difficult to get a big turnout because of competition from other intellectual events.

But what was intended as a temporary reprieve from sorrow became a lifelong avocation and one of the most crucial intellectual events in Dante's career.

Now Mr. McDonough is in the forefront of efforts to change that, to record instantaneously the major intellectual events in our lives.

Mary V. Dearborn, in her biography of Mailer, called the evening "surely one of the most singular intellectual events of the time, and a landmark in the emergence of feminism as a major force".

Further, important intellectual events were known at La Flèche, including the discovery of the moons of Jupiter by Galileo in 1610.