Sentence examples for intellectual position of from inspiring English sources

So while he was a resolutely common man, he also used the intellectual position of the common man approach to focus the dry humour with which he presented his position.

I was wondering how Mourad could be at the same very scientific in his studies and very unscientific regarding the intellectual positions of some Muslim scholars.

The Branch role gave Mr. Thompson something else: the chance to explain conservative intellectual positions to millions of viewers.

Chinua Achebe's work has been important to my own writing practice through the exploration of his ideas on Conrad and language use: I read and write with an understanding of prejudice in spite of a positive intellectual position, and accept my existence as a hybrid of ever-expanding ancestries, who thinks and writes in many languages.

It was the beginning of decades of more or less taking any sophisticated intellectual position that one of us had and [the other] taking the negation of it.

Stuart Jeffries piece on faith and unbelief is an example of a certain kind of liberal intellectual position which seeks to stand above the current debates about the place of religion in contemporary society, to (using the term Jeffries is so fond of) wryly adjudicate from the sidelines.

However, this is a story not simply of static institutional relationships and intellectual positions, but of shifting relationships and evolving positions.

Clearly visible within the ruined greenhouse of Dellar's intellectual position is a thriving tomato plant of enlightenment.

I'd always thought it was a kind of intellectual position, feminism, not that there were people out there who thought you weren't smart".

One of my friends wanted to have a debate about it, and when she was pressing me to take an intellectual position I just kind of barked: 'My house is on fire!' That's how it felt; it just felt personal and visceral.

Centuries earlier, China had already staked out the intellectual position that money was a part of the "machinery" of government, as imperial scholars put it.