He brought deep professionalism and experience, along with an intellectual curiosity and Eastern sensitivity.
It was while he was at Kanun also that Kiarostami embarked on what would become known as the Koker trilogy, the three films that established his international reputation as a director of considerable sensitivity and intellectual rigour.
For generations, just about every boy growing up in America felt obliged to prove his manhood, which generally meant demonstrating physical strength, a disdain for gentility, a willingness and ability to stand up for himself, especially with his fists, and a disregard for anything "soft" — women, except as sex objects; intellectual prowess; and general sensitivity.
Others are shown to be intellectual leaders with a great sensitivity to problems.
Through the decades, their work--born out of a healthy marriage of intellectual curiosity, risk-taking, and spiritual sensitivity--has stood the test of time and given rise to many an aspiring performer and scholar.
He was convinced of his intellectual prowess, yet possessed of a child-like sensitivity to criticism.
It is this special "shock of recognition" that inspires awe and demands response from the beholder when confronted with that deepest insight and most exquisite sensitivity, the hallmarks of truly exceptional intellectual and artistic endeavor.
Great comedy is about intellectual, sensual intercourse with the audience and having sufficient sensitivity to smell their hunger.
The high intellectual level of his conferences and sermons and the sensitivity of his religious poetry have gained an international audience.
The poisoned group showed deteriorated intellectual functioning, academic skills, abstraction, reasoning, motor skills, and sensitivity to social stress.
