Sentence examples for intellectual experiment from inspiring English sources

Content aside, the book is a fascinating intellectual experiment.

All because she thought she wasn't good enough, before realising that "being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment".

That has the ring of truth about it: even if the 1960s were years of intellectual experiment and rapid social change, they were also years of some shallowness and silliness.

James cheerfully lampooned the worthiness of his fellow New Englanders - and in particular of a bluestocking elite of reforming women - but it was this society, keen for artistic and intellectual experiment, avid for philosophical reflection, that embraced and transformed the French art movements of Barbizon and impressionism, in an inspiring spirit of cosmopolitanism and adventure.

Earlier that year the nation had been transfixed by the most pointless of ransom slayings, when Bobby Franks, the 14-year-old son of a Chicago millionaire, was killed by Nathan Leopold Jr., 19, and Richard Loeb, 18, as an intellectual experiment.

In short, philosophy should take the shape of a sustained intellectual experiment; it should be forever on its way and thoroughly inductively minded.

He's right: while their predecessors have traditionally focused on intellectual experiments with texture and shape, these new designers have an innate understanding of global street trends.

More-intellectual theatrical experiments by Unamuno attempted the drama of ideas; Azorín renewed comedy, introducing lessons from vaudeville, and produced experimental Surrealist works.

This is the story that Matthew Cobb tells in "Generation," his competent if less than enthralling reconstruction of the bold experiments, intellectual alliances and bitter battles that led to a new scientific frontier.

Down House transformed into an intellectual factory with experiments on pigeon breeding, barnacle taxonomy, seed germination, plant breeding, orchids, and worms being conducted in Darwin's coops, greenhouse, orchard, and yard.

KN aided in intellectual design of the experiments, assisted in the mouse experiments and provided aid in Western blot analysis.