Sentence examples for intellectual heavyweights from inspiring English sources

For another, Mr. Buckley and Mr. Mailer were both intellectual heavyweights of a kind increasingly rare today.

As it turns out, many of the intellectual heavyweights who've driven Iran's ever-growing pro-democracy Green Movement also love Popper and his defense of liberal democracy.

Debates were conducted in broad daylight by intellectual heavyweights who took their ideas and opponents seriously enough to present arguments carefully, with wit and gravitas.

A harsh diminishment, for these two intellectual heavyweights, and nicely reflecting all that she had written of the alienation from oneself that is the condition of old age.

Reminiscent of When We Were Kings, Neville and Gordon set up the prize fight and then let the two intellectual heavyweights deliver the blows.

Perhaps, however, the experience of 1971 was enough to make the prize organisers think twice about including so many free-thinking intellectual heavyweights again.

This was unhomogenized Chopin, Chopin treated like a master of experimentation and an intellectual heavyweight.

In Ms. Kagan, Democrats see an intellectual heavyweight who can counter Chief Justice Roberts and other conservatives on the court.

He is doing something different and, whether one agrees with him or not, he is an intellectual heavyweight.

Mr. Cowen, known as an intellectual heavyweight, said there would be a difference in style from the populist Mr. Ahern.

He fizzes with energy and ideas, and seems more of an intellectual heavyweight than most of the current field (though that is not hard).