Sentence examples for intellectual in a from inspiring English sources

What is the role of an intellectual in a place like that?

She was an intellectual in a raucous style not seen since the 1920s, and she couldn't hide her contempt for New York's ruling critical elite.

They were all a little desperate, and Sartre was the leading intellectual in a culture that treats its intellectuals like pop stars.

Miliband, who has known Livesey since 2009, has chosen an intellectual in a similar mould to himself as chief of staff.

Her most identifiable public image remains that of an icon of seriousness, the embodiment of the intellectual in a culture pathologically ambivalent about the very category.

He was an immensely accomplished, formidable, busy man — the model of a public intellectual in a way that, by the nineteen-eighties, hardly existed any longer — but he told me to call him collect.

"I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition.

"A public intellectual is someone who engages in intellectual pursuits, airs intellectual concerns in a way the broad, literate public can understand.

Yes, his obsession with cultural-populist tropes, especially the horseshit assumption that the ideal male, maybe even the default human being, is a fortyish white non-intellectual in a baseball cap holding a can of beer, is annoying at best.

The ANC was founded at a meeting of black activists and intellectuals in a Bloemfontein church in 1912.

It'll be more like Withnail and I. Rich boys enjoying the idea of being intellectuals in a squat.