Sentence examples for intellectual rumination from inspiring English sources

The persecution of Mr Summers for the sin of intellectual rumination is symptomatic of a wider problem.

Fearing that such intellectual rumination might go over some heads, you segue to frocks, and set about passing off others' verdicts on the red-carpet couture as your own.

From Edith Wharton to Henry Miller, great authors have long turned to snail mail in order to express their love, exchange intellectual ruminations, or stay in touch with friends.

The alliance of Mr. Rubin's lifelong ruminations, intellectual stringency and powers of persuasion with the museum's strategic advantages would be very difficult to duplicate.

Obsessions are typically intrusive thoughts of violence, injury, dirt or sex, or obsessive ruminations on intellectual themes.

Around that time, Barber also released a memoir of his stint as a freelance intellectual in the Clinton White House, a melancholy rumination on the failures of that administration as well as his own failure to be named chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Matthews illustrated how much their open-ended intellectual curiosity has in common with the apparently aimless ruminations of professionals — thus, in effect, painting adult philosophy as a form of arrested development.

(Miramax/Hyperion, $13.95). This strangely moving novel alternates between the diarylike ruminations of "Beigbeder" -- a shiftless, self-impressed intellectual who feels impelled to write about 9/11 -- and an account of the death of a father and his two boys who were breakfasting at Windows on the World, the restaurant atop the World Trade Center's north tower.

Although Spalding felt that he had not had any intellectual deterioration since the accident, Kathie wondered whether his unceasing rumination might not, in part, be a "cover" or "disguise" for an intellectual loss that he did not want to admit.

This strangely moving novel alternates between the diarylike ruminations of "Beigbeder" -- a shiftless, self-impressed intellectual who feels impelled to write about 9/11 -- and an account of the death of a father and his two boys who were breakfasting at Windows on the World, the restaurant atop the World Trade Center's north tower.

Mr. Marker collaborated on this film with Yannick Bellon, a daughter of the photographer, and with the actress Alexandra Stewart, who delivers the faintly nervy but intellectual English commentary -- she served the same role on Mr. Marker's feature-length rumination, "Sans Soleil" (1982).