Sentence examples for intellectual given from inspiring English sources

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

Jafari, 59, an intellectual given to quoting poets and philosophers in his public speeches, appeared to be painfully aware of the burden of leading a country still in chaos nearly three years after a U.S.-led U.S.-ledn toppled Hussein's dicoalitionp.

to participate in the intellectual give and take of campus debate..

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".

"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.

The Wilson cabinet contained a number of intellectuals given to superfluous wrangling when essentials were clear.

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

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

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

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.