Sentence examples for intellectual play from inspiring English sources

Skylar wasn't just engaging in intellectual play, however; he was putting theory into practice.

Warhol, he says, taught him about "intellectual play and verbal high jinks".

Einstein's "thought experiments," for example, were a form of intellectual play that helped him understand the implications of relativity.

Now, in the spirit of intellectual play, in his Harvard class, he wanted to see if they were just as strong in winds hitting from 45 degrees.

Because I don't have the luxury of spending five nights in an expensive hotel indulging in tax payer-funded intellectual play.

That was the case in "Amos and Andrew" (1993), in which the petty criminal played by Nicolas Cage punctured some preconceptions of the conservative black intellectual played by Samuel L. Jackson.

"Whoever wins the Labour leadership tomorrow, this is now a party that has completely vacated the intellectual playing field and no longer represents working people.

One of those intellectual plays you feel you ought to love, it left me desperate to escape its depressive air and return to a world of light and colour.

And occasionally there is one who accurately reflects our ambivalence about reason and science, like the gentle-natured intellectual played by George Sanders in Wolf Rilla's superb "Village of the Damned" (1960), who finds himself the guardian of an extraterrestrial son and tries — foolishly, tragically — first to learn from him and then to teach him.

A small-scale, esoteric intellectual play--which will bring him far less remuneration than his 2011 extravaganza Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway--is not what you would expect.

Intellectual: Playing music or watching TV while you study, write, or do research distracts you from learning effectively.