Sentence examples for intellectual exertion from inspiring English sources
With all this intellectual exertion, it's good to get some physical exercise.
Islam as a worldview is rooted in knowledge, intellectual exertion, and reason.
Psychologists have concentrated on thinking as an intellectual exertion aimed at finding an answer to a question or the solution of a practical problem.
It's an excuse for a long walk after so much eating and drinking, really, but does involve considerable intellectual exertion, too, so it's good to go with someone like my wife, Susan Gilchrist, who has a crossworder's brain.
Today, however, the basic assumptions of cold war liberalism lie in ruins – after decades of intellectual exertion to construct flimsy oppositions between the rational west and the irrational east.
He also fails to look squarely at the university that antedated what he calls the "victims' revolution" — a place where women were considered too fragile for intellectual exertion, Jews were marginalized and blacks and Hispanics were virtually absent.
In its preface the author rejects what we might call direct action in favour of "gradual yet decided intellectual exertions".
A discerning critic, he looks to the backstory: with our intellectual exertions, we don't justify our mere tastes and distastes we justify our existences.
There's something about the power of the moving image, though, that not only doesn't require much intellectual effort to consume, but actually discourages such exertion.
This endless crusade has achieved a state of perpetual motion generated by a confluence of dogmatic ideology, intellectual obstinacy, cynical political calculation and the exertions of powerful financial and professional interests.
So do the exertions of intellectuals, such as Blecher himself, which didn't prevent Fascism or Nazism and didn't overturn them but which were also markers of humanity and clarity in a sordid time, a light that as brought forth in Jude's own film shines now no less than the advances of science.
