What he saw there — books piled haphazardly throughout and empty shelves, soda cans and garbage strewed about — immediately went into print, and that prompted a petition signed by hundreds of Italian intellectuals questioning Mr. De Caro's appointment as director.
Though stooped and molasses-like on her feet, Justice Ginsburg shows no signs of intellectual decline, questioning lawyers with slicing precision during oral arguments.
"Scourge of management, record companies and album sleeve printers; champion of bands, music, great ideas and high, sometimes infuriatingly high, standards," Pink Floyd's drummer, Nick Mason, wrote about Mr. Thorgerson on the band's Web site on Friday, adding: "Endlessly intellectual and questioning.
HAVANA — Nearly two years into the Cuban government's economic overhaul aimed at slashing public payrolls and bolstering private enterprise, the reforms have slowed so much that many Cuban entrepreneurs and intellectuals are questioning the aging leadership's ability — or will — to reshape one of the world's last Communist systems and shift nearly half of the island's output to private hands.
For the Senator, it was the next thing to treason, and he returned to the news channels to say so, accusing the scientist of intellectual bullying and questioning his loyalty for having even suggested that the nation's weaponry might not be up to the task.
He said the artist was a "dear friend to all of us, our children, our wives (and the exes); endlessly intellectual and questioning; breathtakingly late for appointments and meetings, but once there, invaluable for his ideas, humour, and friendship".
Mr. Haider has made a lot of headway in Austria precisely by questioning the "intellectual tyranny" of the left.
Traditionally, the Institute of Ideas is the think-tank that prides itself on questioning the intellectual status quo and overturning every sacred cow argument it can get its hands on.
Perhaps to save face, he opened the forum by blasting Mr Ahmadinejad as a "petty and cruel dictator", questioning his "intellectual courage", and describing his take on the Holocaust as "ridiculous .The campus was plastered with posters both supporting and condemning Mr Ahmadinejad's appearance.
In the Revival al-Ghazâlî attacks his colleagues in Muslim scholarship, questioning their intellectual capacities and independence as well as their commitment to gaining reward in the world to come.
