Sentence examples for intellectual precision from inspiring English sources

As "Ararat" hardens into an essayistic moral puzzle, dramatic credibility is increasingly sacrificed for intellectual precision.

He brought physical stamina as well as intellectual precision to his work.

Callow's own energies, theatrical knowledge and intellectual precision are as inspiring as ever.

It is also a contribution of considerable importance, for it invites us to follow Dahl in considering with intellectual precision and rigor some central dilemmas of democratic pluralism.

The very capaciousness of Mr. Raban's interests gives his account a dense and tangled quality, but within every thicket there is the kind of intellectual precision that makes going along on this unromantic adventure very worthwhile.

For Leonard has picked up the legacy Trilling and his contemporaries left -- their particular priesthood of high seriousness in American intellectualism -- and transformed it into something playful and excitable, and he's done it without sacrificing moral purpose or intellectual precision.

What makes "Carnage" fascinating, though, is less the scale of Ms. Gleize's intellectual passions than the precision and originality of her cinematic style.

These older workplace professionals, who range in age from their 30's to their 50's, insist they are not ganging up on the younger generation but are simply fighting the good fight for verbal precision and intellectual clarity.

Many of us, it seems, are still trying to enforce a military-style precision on our intellectual, creative, civilian lives — and often failing.

Even John Oliver, whose haircut once came in the bowl formation of a teenager trying to start a grunge band in the mid-1990s, is now clipped and trim in the modern style, his jackets just so, his monologues delivered with the syntactical precision of an intellectual sniper.

Nor is it easy to see how his discussion of these five intellectual virtues can bring greater precision to the doctrine of the mean.