The matriarch of the family emerges here as an intellectual presence in her own right.
We're a small country, but we have a big intellectual presence globally, and TEDxSydney celebrates that".
Bassist Shahzad Ismaily is a tall, intellectual presence, and occasional sax player DV De Vincentis fades in and out elegantly, like a mist.
"What made him such a powerhouse as an intellectual presence was that all of that skill and learning was grounded in an excellent facility as a keyboard player," said Robert O'Meally, a professor of American literature at Columbia University and the director of the Center for Jazz Studies there.
She is an intimidating intellectual presence – she once told us that to improve characterisation, we should read Descartes.
Only once before, during my father's eulogy, had I experienced panic, dry mouth, sweating hands, loss of intellectual presence.
More than 60 international delegations were present, including French President Francois Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as a group of Turkish intellectuals whose presence was a repudiation of their own government's continued denial that the Armenian massacres were genocide.
Moral and intellectual giant, his presence and loss are inestimable.
Though he no longer performs, he is still a formidable intellectual and musical presence.
One might object that Nabokov was a powerful intellect, and the last thing one wants, on encountering Cervantes for the first time, is another quite distinct intellectual or artistic presence, to distract from a fresh reading of the masterpiece.
