Sentence examples for intellectual give from inspiring English sources

"It's not that they went and destroyed St. Peter," said Mr. Bassiouni, who has an academic's zest for intellectual give and take that is not always suited to the reserve of diplomacy.

Being an intellectual, given to quoting Bertrand Russell and Oliver Cromwell, he also gets the best lines.

Mr. Lévy, a celebrated philosopher, journalist and public intellectual, gives Mr. Sarkozy sole credit for persuading London, Washington and others to support intervention in Libya.

And Coetzee's Phaedra isn't really Phaedra but an intellectual giving a lecture on female desire, on the relationships between men and gods".

Older intellectuals gave younger people advice on how to avoid violence.

Mr. Bush is determinedly anti-intellectual, gives little evidence of having thought out a political philosophy, waffles on many issues and often jokes about his fondness for reading the executive summary and skipping the long report.

Some public intellectuals have given up their microblog accounts.

He relishes memories of the intellectual give-and-take in the classroom and the unencumbered vigor of the news media.

Mr. Clinton seized the opportunity to engage in the kind of intellectual give-and-take that he loves and that he is urging on the Vietnamese people.

Emotions surface but, like the intricacies of space-time travel, they are resolved through intellectual give-and-take followed by joint action.

Nonetheless, we may well see in the general election a contest between two dispassionate and accommodating pragmatists and skilled debaters who relish intellectual give-and-take, and whose willingness to compromise has infuriated the party faithful.