"Earth in the Balance" is not so much the work of an intellectual as the work of someone immensely impressed by intellectualism and intellectuals, who occupy the venerated position for him that baseball heroes do for Bush.
"This sub-decree of 7 March 2012 has truly sprung from the intellectual and thoughtful mind of someone who is trying to conserve endangered fishing resources," sing a man and a woman in harmony, over image after image of flopping fish.
Although no punishment is legally ordained, few crimes are more cruel than intellectual grave-robbing, the misappropriation of someone's name and legacy.
Indeed, by putting on the same plane the fact that people read and think and go seriously to the movies and the fact that they cry and run and make love, Godard has disclosed a new vein of lyricism and pathos for cinema: in bookishness, in genuine cultural passion, in intellectual callowness, in the misery of someone strangling in his own thoughts.
My notion of an intellectual is someone engaged with ideas at a high level of sophistication, commanding a philosophical tone and deep literary culture: Ortega y Gasset, say, or Albert Camus, or George Orwell.
At the heart of it is something rather like that old riddling definition of an intellectual as someone who can hold two conflicting ideas in his or her mind at the same time.
But just as any regular joe with access to Wikipedia can do a passable impression of someone with enormous intellectual powers, the extended mind of the cloud could lead to impressive improvements in robot capabilities.
Paul has no love of someone else's intellectual work.
In such a homogeneous group, a Justice's intellectual ability to appreciate the situation of someone from a different background or in a different situation is essential.
Done in the 1530s, it is a portrait of an unknown but superbly supercilious member of Florence's intellectual elite, someone who wears his basic republic black with flare and who would have understood the connoisseurial impulse, with its mix of fact and desire, that drives the exhibition.
