Sentence examples for intellectual events from inspiring English sources

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".

During the decade, Baudrillard continued playing the role of academic and media superstar, travelling around the world lecturing and performing in intellectual events.

Arnauld's responded to the publication of Nature et grâce by engaging in open combat, and the ensuing battle became one of the major intellectual events of the day.

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.

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.

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.