Sentence examples for intellectual rigidity from inspiring English sources

People familiar with fundamentalist colleges in the South would not find this intellectual rigidity surprising.

Likewise, the recognition that many freshwater economists were not thinking scientifically at all, but rather bound by prejudice and intellectual rigidity seems to have come as a shock.

The risks now are that his reaction to the past clouds his judgment and that his intellectual rigidity again becomes a constraint.

Dr. Nuland first discovered the delight of learning from others, particularly others in a different field, as a student at Yale. "The thing that impresses me the most about this place is that it has intellectual rigor without an intellectual rigidity," he said.

Historians have criticized [President] Polk's lack of creativity, his gray imagination, his intellectual rigidity, his inability to think outside the box.

But they suffer from intellectual rigidity and are torn by their emotional loyalty to the regime, and thus try to pull the opposition back from its more serious demands.

As a case in point, that cyan ink doubles as a recurring motif of Asterios's intellectual and aesthetic rigidity.

A lot of things in high school lead individual students to feel that they don't belong, from bureaucratic rigidity to intellectual stultification to football mania.

The intellectual lethargy and the rigidity of its elite further assures continuing misery and hardship for the great number of Indians.

In general, his intellectual CV gives an impression of slow-minded rigidity; and he seems essentially incurious about anything beyond his immediate sphere".

Directed by Howard Davies in a translation by Sir David Hare, this Galileo is one for our time: engaging, accessible, full of quarrels about secularism and the rigidities of faith.Simon Russell Beale as Galileo is a cigarette-smoking, whisky-swigging intellectual who would not be out of place in a red-brick science faculty.