And don't mistake him for a predominantly intellectual player.
She wasn't a simple reporter, talking to people and reading the runes: she was an intellectual player in a vital, but often arcane, area.
He was an active intellectual player in the creation of New Labour in the 1980s and 1990s, he was a first-rate policy adviser in government and I cannot think of anyone less likely to be involved in politicising something like this.
New Scientist talks to a key intellectual player.
You always have to be thinking three, four sentences ahead because that's how it works with the press, and they're very good intellectual chess players themselves.
Urging people to "stand up for change," and put an end to the recent spate of sexual assaults on women and children in India, she asks: Are there any Indian movie stars, sports players, intellectuals out there who are willing to put a face on needed change?
The Mets' pursuit of players with intellectual fortitude is probably no coincidence.
The plaintiffs also say that the new licensing agency duplicates what existing agencies do and it does not require that the N.F.L. license its films and other intellectual property to the players.
The interview revealed that Mourinho just did not possess the emotional and intellectual range to pick players up off the floor when, by a combination of ego and diminished confidence, they failed to give of their best as Real Madrid's 2012-13 La Liga title defence began catastrophically.
