Sentence examples for intellectual fervour from inspiring English sources

He also records healthy levels of scepticism and humour amid the intellectual fervour.

He, along with Daniel Hannan and others, was driven by intellectual fervour, a burning belief in abstract nouns such as "sovereignty" and "freedom".

The vanguard film-makers of the 1960s - the era that spawned our last great generation of critics - were Godard, Kubrick and Antonioni, people under the spell of the intellectual fervour sparked by existentialism and Marxism.

For the first three decades of the 19th century, Edinburgh continued to dominate the literary world in Britain, with Sir Walter Scott, creator of the historical novel, its greatest figure, but, by the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria in 1837, Edinburgh's intellectual fervour had subsided.

There is also a lovely irony that in a celebration of arts and culture we have chosen to venerate Lovelace – a woman who grew up in a house where portraits of her infamous poet father Lord Byron were apparently hidden and all intellectual fervour was determinedly directed towards maths.

A man whose talents, combined with his intellectual fervour and charming demeanour, elevated him to a position of international cultural ambassador, Maxwell is a living mascot for Maori culture.

People accepted the routine of his continuing rule, at the cost, however, of some loss of intellectual energy and moral fervour.

Though they were different in many ways, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were both intellectual heirs of Wilson's moral fervour and belief in America as guardian and promoter of freedom.Realists are more pessimistic about progress in human affairs and believe that states live by different moral rules from individuals.

Along comes Kevin Phillips with the intellectual force of a great advocate and the moral fervour of an Old Testament prophet to demolish the foolish credulity of the markets and the self-interestedness of the politicians".The numbers are stark," he says as he nails down the foundation of his argument: the boom of the 1990s enriched only the few.

Unfortunately, most readers threw their considerable intellectual efforts into elaborate literal interpretations designed to iron out the inconsistencies, with all the fervour of Star Trek fans circa 2003 coming up with theories about why Koloth, Kor and Kang had smooth foreheads in the original TV series and bony ridges in Deep Space Nine.

Populist fervour is real enough.