Sentence examples for intellectual references from inspiring English sources

Japan made intellectual references in their lyrics, and their fans were makeup-wearing arty types.

Despite all those intellectual references, his stump speech is based on much the same optimistic populism as John Edwards's.

And I think that many critics are made uneasy by Apatow's separation of moral seriousness from explicit intellectual references.

"Seminar" makes astute use of topical and intellectual references, which are usually well known enough to make middlebrow audiences feel highbrow.

This may suggest an all-too-familiar Broadway recipe for flattering middlebrows into feeling highbrow, allowing audience members to signal their sophistication with knowing laughs at intellectual references.

I slip from a life of shared intellectual references and friends with Ivy graduate degrees into a land of workers who are often invisible and deemed low-status.

As intellectual reference the offered Robert Hutchins, president of the Chicago University.

At its height in Paris between the wars, surrealism was an intellectual reference point.

Bourdieu became "the intellectual reference" for movements opposed to neo-liberalism and globalisation that developed in France and elsewhere during the 90s.

A philosophy MA student, she's given interviews touching on everything from the Freudian unconscious to Nigeria's kidnapped schoolgirls, not the most common intellectual reference points for artists with one eye on a slot on Sunday Brunch.

Our key intellectual reference point in this discussion is Roberto Esposito and his thoughts on what he calls an 'immunitary paradigm' or 'regime' together with his critical perspectives on the origins and social fabrics of community, gift and solidarism.