Sentence examples for intellectual purpose from inspiring English sources

At Joysmith, photographic prints by Carrie Mae Weems add intellectual purpose.

On the other it creates tedious discourses of no interest to anyone, or deconstructs its own intellectual purpose.

The most important thing is that the college needs to be motivated by a deep sense of moral and intellectual purpose – it must be committed to improving the education of children and young people.

Cumberbatch dispatched the great soliloquies with considerable flair and intellectual purpose, feigning madness as a toy soldier in his own fantasy castle, mourning his "lost" Ophelia (Sian Brooke), and turning on his mother, Gertrude (Anastasia Hille), and his murderous uncle Claudius (Ciarán Hinds) with the fervour of an adult dissident, not a sulky brat with an Oedipus complex.

It was something made to be fun, without any specific intellectual purpose.

"Our recent forebears", the author concludes, "living in significantly poorer times, were occupied with the cultural, moral and intellectual purposes of education.

Louis Menand's piece in the magazine this week (available to subscribers) about Dwight Macdonald is a crucial reminder of the service done by Macdonald, in the late fifties and early sixties, in undermining the authority of "Midcult"—predigested and genteel simulacra of learning and culture that served social rather than intellectual purposes.

Russell came to feel that the world of Reality was no use for purely intellectual purposes either and soon resolved to do without it.

He believed that intellectual purposes, formal causes, guided all natural processes.

Raven is a beautiful K9 female German Shepherd, coal black, bred for highly intellectual purposes.

In imperial China, Weiqi had the status of an art whose practice had educational, moral and intellectual purposes.