Sentence examples for intellectual fervor from inspiring English sources

Here was a man whose intellectual fervor matched his artistic energy.

When they finally met face to face, he was, he says, "blown away" by the dichotomy between Ms. Goldhirsh's "energetic, bubbly" personality, and her intellectual fervor.

The result is the kind of collision between intellectual fervor and street smarts that we tend to associate with an older, upwardly mobile generation.

"The streets were just filled with people and kids and debate and excitement and, from my point of view, intellectual fervor," he said in a 1996 interview with The New York Times.

In "Godard Mon Amour" (which premièred at the Cannes Film Festival last May and opens here on Friday), Hazanavicius doesn't so much adapt Wiazemsky's memoirs as lay waste to them, pillaging the books for anecdotal sketches of a romance that he detaches from its surroundings, minimizing its intellectual fervor and historical urgency.

The Juilliard Quartet plays music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with the same intellectual fervor that it brings to twentieth-century innovators and it brings the same passion to works of stern atonality as it does to compositions of romantic ardor, as in this 1962 recording of Schubert's Fifteenth Quartet, his last.

Much to my surprise, he said that he "hated those images" because they reflected the most impoverished and traditional aspects of shtetl life, but not the intellectual and political fervor that gripped Poland between the wars when even many traditional Jews experimented with new ideas.

"Designers are like flowers," observes Paola Antonelli, the senior curator of architecture and design at MoMA. "They thrive in the right terrain: usually a mix of intellectual and artistic fervor, supported by a lively industrial sector of small to medium-size companies.