Sentence examples for intellectual revolt from inspiring English sources

An unusual gulf between reality and official ideology stimulated a general intellectual revolt, a search for the actualities beneath the pious formulas of proclaimed truth.

The intellectual revolt against Christianity in the West is a revolt from within, and is not stained with blood, as anti-Semitism has so terribly been.

In her latest book, "Nomad: From Islam to America" (Free Press; $27), she reminds her readers of the West's tradition of intellectual revolt against clerical tyranny and warns of the insidious, intransigent enemies in their midst.

Think of Edward Snowden's intellectual revolt against the National Security Agency, or the decision by a lonely Army private in Iraq to steal diplomatic cables, or whomever gifted WikiLeaks with the CIA's phone and television hacking tools.

The high-handed policy of the court to imprison and kill thousands of them and their official sympathizers in 169 ce may have put a temporary stop to the intellectual revolt, but the downward economic spiral made the life of the peasantry unbearable.

Broadly speaking, Weber's philosophical worldview, if not coherent philosophy, was informed by the deep crisis of the Enlightenment project in fin-de-siècle Europe, which was characterized by the intellectual revolt against positivist reason, a celebration of subjective will and intuition, and a neo-Romantic longing for spiritual wholesomeness [Hughes 1977].

Mishra looks to the history of ideas for an explanation, spending many chapters tracing a line of thought from Rousseau through the Romantics and the Russian nihilists to D'Annunzio and the anti-intellectual revolt of the fin de siècle and the early 20th century.

In my Radio 4 documentary, Goliath, I report on the growing intellectual and political revolt against the US right's attempt to muzzle US policy on challenging monopolies.

In the 1930s and the war years, the Nihon Roman-ha ("Japan Romantic School"), which argued for an intellectual and cultural "revolt against the West" identified the achievements of Motoori Norinaga and other nativist scholars as a point of origin for their own endeavor.

The Open Source movement is one example of a revolt from "intellectual property" and the development of an "intellectual commons" in which many people freely share and contribute improvements to software and, arguably, achieve a final product that is superior in reliability to that produced by an individual software company.

It might be slightly unfair to say, as does Richard Holmes in his magnificent biography, that parts of Shelley's Hymn To Intellectual Beauty and The Revolt of Islam suffer from a "thin, high-pitched egotism".