Sentence examples for intellectual match from inspiring English sources

Sitting beside Lidia in various restaurant booths, he averred to his friends that he had finally met his intellectual match.

An earlier biographer of Mill, Bruce Mazlish, makes the point that Mill's mother was the real missing presence in his life, and that Harriet (as Yoko Ono did for John Lennon) helped fill his need for a woman who was both an intellectual match and thoroughly maternal.

After all, it's only (fairly) recently that we demanded the whole package: true love, intellectual match, best friend forever.

While tackling the one-offs, the detective also plays a cat-and-mouse game with a supervillain who appears to be his intellectual match.

Ken sees James as his "intellectual match", and has a lot of respect for him because he is a "well-educated, erudite young man".

In that sense, it's a good way to see if you've met your intellectual match.

Dr. Conrad knew all this, of course, but she was enjoying the intellectual fencing match.

Mr. Hitchens and the editors of The Nation have been in something of an intellectual death match.

He added, "Larry does sometimes interact with people in a debating format, and expects them to reciprocate and to be able to engage in an intellectual tennis match".

He imagines their meeting as a kind of time-travelling intellectual football match: Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Samuel Johnson and Lucretius are among the players kicking for materialism (Dawkins is team captain), while Tolstoy, Keats, Proust and Plato are all playing for the idealists.

Based on "Candida," George Bernard Shaw's comedy about the mysteries of marital love, the musical moves with a gentle step, keeping an intimate focus on its central characters as they circle one another in a cozy London study that becomes the site of a well-mannered moral and intellectual boxing match.