Sentence examples for intellectual muddle from inspiring English sources

This is a serious intellectual muddle.

In a recent study published by the Institute of Strategic Studies, Mr. Snider wrote that the shifting demands of the last half-century have left the Army's officer corps "in the midst of an intellectual muddle".

A truly coherent approach would have combined the political necessity for some concessions on fuel duty with other measures aimed more directly at cutting traffic in particular through the use of road-tolls.The intellectual muddle over pensions is even more marked.

At best, the job of philosophy was nothing more than clearing up intellectual muddles – to "show the fly the way out of the fly bottle" as Wittgenstein famously put it – but it doesn't change the world in any substantial way.

But blogs endlessly spin thousands of news articles, muddling intellectual discourse.

Coetzee is roused less by aesthetic concerns than by political and moral ones: when intellectual premises are muddled -- even when motivated by the best of liberal intentions -- writing can be dangerous.

The fact that so many different questions philosophical, historical and ones to do with intellectual turf have become muddled up is surely one source of the heat and anger.That does not mean that neither side has real concerns.

"The exciting thing about Bushy's speech is that in it we find Shakespeare struggling with a sentiment rendered stubborn by the circumstance that the speaker appears to be thinking, is doing his intellectual best to get his consolation across, and is getting slightly muddled in the process, the slight muddle being a by-product of the effect to represent intellection".

Higgins, for all his brutishness, understands that relations between the sexes have been hopelessly muddled by social constructs of gender and class; as a wealthy intellectual he can try, as Shaw did, to abstain from the mess entirely.

"A clever if muddled collection of riffs on the Blair Witch juggernaut, dressed up with intellectual pretensions," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times.

The $10 million follow-up to the Little $30,000 Movie That Could is a clever if muddled collection of riffs on the Blair Witch juggernaut, dressed up with intellectual pretensions by Joe Berlinger, who directed this film with a chortling zest.