On the contrary, Mr. Caldwell, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and a columnist for The Financial Times, compiles his arguments patiently, twig by twig, and mostly with lucidity and intellectual grace and even wit.
Dawkins' articulate dialogue examines career challenges, family relations and fidelity with the intellectual grace of a writer to watch.
"Fashion should portray grace, intellectual and artistic beauty, youthful energy," Mr. Kim said.
There is in her cleverest, most arcane intellectual analysis a grace, a lightness of touch, that one rarely finds in a work of scholarship.
Mr. Haskell's books have been widely admired for their historical breadth, intellectual vitality and stylistic grace.
Whatever he did he did well and with a minimum of fuss: no fancy words, no intellectual pretensions, just simple grace under pressure.
Half a dozen poems from Lord Weary's Castle remain anthology nuggets, justly praised for their intellectual stringency, their linguistic grace and toughness, the sense of a vast historical connectedness: past and present mingle in this work, like relatives who can only just bear each other but understand the force of blood-ties and family tradition.
Famous international and local politicians, as well as infamous spooks and intellectuals have also graced its rustic tables.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge once defined him as "intellectual power deserted by all grace, all moral principle".
He was a man of moral and intellectual strength whose wit and grace were evident throughout his writings.
For 45 years, Lou Winnick's intellectual generosity and delightful wittiness graced our Board of Directors.
