Sentence examples for intellectual interested from inspiring English sources

Asked about the conference's political emphasis, Mr. O'Connor cited the jurist Richard A. Posner's definition of a public intellectual as an intellectual interested in politics.

Asked about the conference's political emphasis, Mr. O'Connor cited the jurist Richard Posner's definition of a public intellectual as an intellectual interested in politics.

She was in many ways his opposite — a budding intellectual, interested in semiotics, film theory, and the teachings of Ram Dass.

She was a true intellectual; interested in a great variety of subjects, and as she often said, had a "need to know".

What's more, there is a French model of being a philosopher which isn't enclosed in the academy as in England – a philosopher who is an intellectual interested in all the things in their age.

"I describe myself as a scholar and public intellectual interested in going more deeply into controversial public events," he said.

Giacomo Badoaro (1602 1654) was a prolific poet in the Venetian dialect who was a member of the Accademia degli Incogniti, a group of free-thinking intellectuals interested in promoting musical theatre in Venice Badoaro himself held a financial interest in the Teatro Novissimo.

"Or has an intellectual interest -- who isn't interested in immediate results, doesn't want to make money, has a lot of degrees.

This is not surprising to me as Curry and Pinchbeck seem sharply intellectual, and interested in the latent power of narrative to create loathing, fear, dread.

It was remarked how "Bakhtinian" this was, & said it was no wonder Chinese intellectuals were interested in Bakhtin's theories about authoritative & underground discourse & the play of voices in a text.

It would have been naïve to ignore the differences, but it was the similarities — temperamental, intellectual, imaginative — which interested me. . . .