Sentence examples for intellectual on from inspiring English sources

He was not an intellectual: on returning from one evening at the opera he wrote, "Went to Covent Garden and saw Fidelio and damned dull it was".

The seductive power of Brixton's political energy was swift and affective to me, a mixed-race child from Wimbledon, conscious that a communist Jewish grandfather on one side and a radical Ghanaian intellectual on the other had bestowed on me a legacy I could not quite adopt in a conservative suburb.

I thought that perhaps it was something to do with class - with the free-roaming nature of American society that allows a writer like Saul Bellow to be so much of the street on one hand and yet such an unashamed intellectual on the other.

The activist intellectual on American hegemony.

They'll have something intellectual on in the afternoon, like Peer Gynt.

On Wednesday, five government agents surrounded a Paris-born intellectual on a remote island in the Aegean.

As one of the young intellectuals on the Conservative right wing, he was well placed to capitalize on Margaret Thatcher's election as prime minister in 1979.

It vanished among intellectuals, on campuses and in the streets.

But why? Whatever happened to intellectuals on television?

French intellectuals, on the other hand, seemed as skeptical of Mr. Bush as ever.

Attacks by intellectuals on popular culture in the 1940's and 50's expanded this view.