Sentence examples for intellectual form from inspiring English sources

Under her hand the novel had developed from a mere entertainment into a highly intellectual form of art.

Before O'Neill, American theatre consisted of melodrama and farce; he was the first US playwright to take drama seriously as an aesthetic and intellectual form.

Again, it was among the conversos that Erasmianism (named after the famous humanist Desiderius Erasmus), a more intellectual form of spiritualized Christianity, had its greatest successes in Spain.

The house honors its obligations to venture out, but judging from these three audiences, it also caters to an upscale clientele accustomed to physical comforts at home and expecting comfort in intellectual form at the opera house.

Also, it's important that their public culture is seen as highbrow: sophistication is an intellectual form of glamor, and only in France could philosophers become major celebrities (think Jacques Derrida).

As a young don, Blunt was converted from the idea of art for art's sake as espoused by his friends in Bloomsbury to an intellectual form of Marxism, which much influenced his critical writings in the Spectator.

For a poem is composed of internal and intellectual forms as well as forms externally imposed and preexisting any particular instance, and these may be sufficient without regular measure and rhyme; if the intellectual forms are absent, as in greeting-card verse and advertising jingles, no amount of thumping and banging will supply the want.

The main theme is that the intellectual forms in which the deepest human convictions have been cast are dead and new ones must be found to fit the time, but the intellectual content of this new religious system is elusive.

Its main theme is that the intellectual forms in which men's deepest convictions have been cast are dead and that new ones must be found to fit the time but that the intellectual content of this new religious system is elusive.

This is the first type of intellect, the potential intellect, which is merely an ability to grasp intellectual forms.

According to Cassirer, Kant's intention with regard to pure intuition was simply to express the methodological presupposition that certain "intellectual forms" (Denkformen), among which are the purely ideal concepts of coexistence and succession, enter into all physical knowledge.