Sentence examples for intellectual force of from inspiring English sources

Ms. Friedman has already conveyed the intellectual force of Arendt, her disdain for carelessness and equivocation.

One might expect this onstage copulation to dilute the considerable intellectual force of the play, but in fact it sharpens it; the revulsion these people cannot suppress even as passion inflames them becomes palpable.

Its foundation date, it reminds new members, also marked the 300th anniversary of Britain's Glorious Revolution of 1688, which saw an unpopular king overthrown.It would be nice to believe that Labour's conversion to the cause of constitutional reform is a result of the intellectual force of the arguments advanced by Charter 88 and others.

In Tunisia, Rachid al-Ghannouchi, the intellectual force of Ennahda, the moderate Islamist party that won the first free election there in 2011, said that in the next election he expects Ennahda's ticket to be half women and "we might have a larger percentage than in your Congress".

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.

Though the intellectual force of Freudian psychoanalysis grows weaker and weaker with time, its importance for the understanding of twentieth-century intellectual culture only increases.

This view of Europe explains one of the great intellectual forces of the postrevolutionary era the passion for history.

— Ernst Bloch, "The Principle of Hope" Even among bourgeois economists, there is hardly a serious thinker who will deny that it is possible, by means of currently existing material and intellectual forces of production, to put an end to hunger and poverty, and that the present state of things is due to the socio-political organization of the world.

Dilthey, however, situates Novalis with Goethe and Hölderlin, and ends up, quite against his own intention, highlighting the aesthetic rather than critical-intellectual force of his philosophy.

A man of honour, with perfect manners, impeccable taste in tailoring and an understanding of world politics, he's a countervailing moral and intellectual force to the crudity of Hoffman and the sentimental naivety of Ferris.

Its combination of moral urgency, intellectual force, and precise observation of the physical world makes it one of the summits of classical literature.