Sentence examples for intellectual inclinations from inspiring English sources

Beard's intellectual inclinations began to emerge when she was a student at Shrewsbury High School, a private school for girls, where she studied French, German, Latin, and Greek.

It also grants a student the freedom to go in whatever direction her or his intellectual inclinations lead, without regard to the ultimate economic utility of the course of study.

Moreover, they often come from families that may monitor educational performance but are removed from "their moods and their psychological and intellectual inclinations," Mr. Nesira added, enabling the lonely or depressed to seek belonging in "a religious utopia," sometimes a very radical one.

For the first time he was free to follow his own intellectual inclinations; and he gained a sense of the uniqueness of the individual, of the healthiness of moderate skepticism, and of the importance of Mediterranean civilization as a counterbalance to the more straitlaced attitudes of northern European countries.

It makes him a fascinating elegist, since the singling out of individuals that justifies the project of elegy — the sense that a unique human person, now missing from the world, might be remade in art — runs counter to his intellectual inclination to view people as cogs in the cosmic machinery.

Oruka was concerned that African intellectuals were drawn into this false assumption regarding the intellectual inclination of African people, maintaining the belief that critique is absent from indigenous African thought.

I also mean the intellectual capacity and inclination to discern veracity in statements they encounter in life.