Sentence examples for intellectual rejection from inspiring English sources

This is the season when many parents begin the perilous journey of getting their toddlers into the right preschool and face the possibility of their social and intellectual rejection.

In such a context, silence becomes an absence, a mark of intellectual abdication, a rejection of humanity.Ms Maitland is a Roman Catholic convert and she is frank about her desire "to explore my own spirituality and deepen my growing sense of the reality of God".

It's somewhat curious that Peterson's caricature of his intellectual foes' supposed rejection of scientific evidence is made while giving Jung centre-stage, a thinker whose totally discredited and entirely unscientific theories of universal archetypes were derived from personal dreams and fabricated "research".

He described it, in England, as a wholesale rejection of intellectual engagement and intellectual depth in Scripture and compared it to what was happening in Islam.

This particular "French exception" is the product of an encounter between a peculiar political and intellectual history and the rejection of the elites currently in power.

In experiencing life primarily as a collection of sensations -- carrot tops grazing a ticklish nose; wet leaves brushing past bare calves -- they acquire a visceral sense of the world around them that is at once a prologue to intellectual awareness and a rejection of its compromises.

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Through a painful intellectual process, which involves the rejection and overcoming of the familiar sensible world, they begin an ascent out of the cave into reality.

In one of the best-drawn examples here, Mr. Menand traces the early influence on Holmes of his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, followed by a rejection of the intellectual style of prewar Boston: "To the Wendell Holmes who returned from the war, generalism was the enemy of seriousness".

Ockham in his rejection of the intellectual basis for morality argues that an act in total conformity with right reason may not be virtuous, since God could possibly create such an act without human volitional consent.

Here we see that Auriol's rejection of intuitive intellectual cognition in this life lies at the heart of a somewhat pessimistic view of the reach of human reason: we do not have direct intuitive knowledge of the world (much less of God), only indirect abstractive knowledge, and this places fairly strict limitations on just what our intellect can achieve unaided.