Sentence examples for intellectual glamour from inspiring English sources

A certain air of intellectual glamour, it has to be said, vibrates in the atmosphere.

The classes, sadly, have all the intellectual glamour of driver's ed.

Many of them were also taught critical theory, then approaching the zenith of its intellectual glamour, in the course of a US writer's almost compulsory postgraduate education.

Part of the reason that Havel is so celebrated today is that he radiated a homey brand of intellectual glamour — his passion for the Velvet Underground and for the Plastic People of the Universe, his decision to ride around the Castle on a scooter, his late, smoky nights in pubs and theatre basements.

Among the many themes of "Wittgenstein's Poker," the most human involves not so much the space between character and achievement ("Nasty Men Make Nice Things; Unpleasant People Think Important Thoughts" is, after all, the headline on almost every chapter in cultural history) as the more ticklish, almost taboo subject of intellectual glamour.

Duveen met Berenson in London in 1906, when the latter was already internationally celebrated for bringing order — and intellectual glamour — to Italian Renaissance art, which had sunk into a chaos of fanciful attributions, deteriorated and heavily repainted works, robust cottage industries in the production of fakes, and general befuddlement.

An Intellectual With Glamour Unlike most serious intellectuals, Ms. Sontag was also a celebrity, partly because of her telegenic appearance, partly because of her outspoken statements.

When I first met Barbara, in 1964, I was an assistant lecturer at University College London and she a senior figure at Birkbeck, with a reputation for intellectual energy and glamour.

It's got the makings — war, glamour, obsession, the intellectual underpinnings of the digital age — of a great Errol Morris documentary.

Marina's father, Dr. George Raad, an ailing cardiologist and an outspoken writer on behalf of the Palestinian cause (who, in his intellectual role and in his glamour, bears a passing resemblance to Edward Said), returns to her side, attracting the eager attention of the Palestinian Authority, whose fictionalized leaders want to make political capital out of the young boy's death.

She came to America, and told the world what was happening back in Russia at a time when Communism held a certain idealistic glamour among the intellectual elite -- who didn't like having this pushy broad, a Jewish immigrant, with her thick accent, come in and tell them they were wrong.