Sentence examples for intellectual excellence from inspiring English sources

Each is a centre of global intellectual excellence.

He lacks an understanding of the "intellectual excellence" the position of a Supreme Court justice requires.

Striving for physical and intellectual excellence, perfection, even though it's not possible — but striving for it — is a worthy endeavor.

Intellectual excellence would be encouraged and rewarded but the emphasis on University level education would be balanced with far more support for vocational training and apprenticeships.

What used to be called a liberal education was one that aspired, through the study of literature, philosophy, history and science, to intellectual excellence.

For anyone who takes the conservative side in America's culture wars, the pope's defence both of traditional social values and of old-fashioned intellectual excellence has obvious appeal.

But not all intellectual excellences are like that.

Good memory and accurate perception are intellectual excellences but don't involve inference from believed premises.

Some virtues are virtues of reasoning: some intellectual excellences are dispositions to infer conclusions from premises already believed.

Foster agrees: "We do have an interesting culture of intellectual property excellence in weird niche fields.

Fortunately, the book doesn't stay in media whine mode for long but reverts to a clash between an engagé Sartrean intellectual par excellence and the politically disengaged, sometimes self-pitying Houellebecq.