Sentence examples for intellectual root from inspiring English sources

Sir Nicholas Serota said, when giving Leslie the Federation of European Art Galleries Association's lifetime achievement award in Basel in 2013: "Leslie's spiritual and intellectual root lies in the literature rather than the art of Ireland, especially in the writings of James Joyce and in the modernist tradition as it developed in Paris between the wars.

Palinism has its intellectual roots.

It took an axe to the 500-year-old intellectual roots from which that movement sprang.

But the case for departure has deeper intellectual roots that cannot be dismissed as mere nostalgia, xenophobia or reactionary reflex.

It has deep social and intellectual roots, a growing mass following, and an enemy state with a hollowed-out ideology.

It invites vicarious identification with the artist's project — an intellectual rooting interest that is rampant among the catalogue essayists.

This article discusses the intellectual roots and political history of conservatism from the 18th century to the present.

That strategy, unbeknown to Lewis, had its intellectual roots in papers written by Kahneman and Tversky 30 years earlier, but which were only then becoming mainstream thinking.

Gould gave the impression of cleaning up Bach, of removing a century of distorting varnish and returning the music to its rigorous intellectual roots.

Its intellectual roots, however, reach back almost as far as recorded thought even as far as Moses, according to one history of the subject.

Whatever its abstract intellectual roots, conservatism has since at least the sixties drawn its political strength by appealing to heartland identity politics.