Sentence examples for intellectual high from inspiring English sources

Get tickets well in advance, and your Carnegie Hill weekend will end on an intellectual high.

At the time, postwar serialist composers claimed the intellectual high ground and dominated many influential university music departments.

Under the intellectual high jinks, Stoppard offers a running debate about the value and purpose of art.

Though he was a genius of the intellectual high wire, the 19th-century philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote from experience.

Though he was a genius of the intellectual high wire, Kierkegaard was a philosopher who wrote from experience.

At the time composers who used supercomplex atonal and serialist techniques vigorously claimed the intellectual high ground and treated composers who continued to embrace tonality as irrelevant.

But the magazine is stubbornly intellectual, high-minded and independent.

What follows is a creative tour de force, an intellectual high-wire act as astonishing as it is entertaining.

As intellectual high-wire acts go, there is no riskier or more astounding enterprise than going out in front of an audience and creating something out of nothing.

Their intellectual high-wire act took sketch comedy from the ersatz to the authentic, and Nichols and May became the bedrock beneath all the most probing postwar standup acts, from Mort Sahl to Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen.

Any sense that austerity was ever wrong or that it delayed the recovery, as Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis argues, would undermine their authority and hand the intellectual higher ground to rival parties.