Sentence examples for intellectual showing from inspiring English sources

A cynic might suggest this was a classic case of a communist intellectual showing solidarity with the masses, and the masses failing to reciprocate.

The long-loyal White Sox fan, pestered by self-satisfied pseudo-intellectuals, showed herculean restraint and stands as a credit to his home team and his home town.

The Possessed – named after Dostoevsky's novel in which a bunch of crackpots and intellectuals show off and torment each other – weaves anecdotes and literary criticism around Batuman's tales of her adventures in America, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Russia.

Hilton Kramer's The Twilight of the Intellectuals shows how difficult indeed, virtually impossible it was for anyone who held basically conservative views in the 1930s and 1960s to be considered an intellectual.

The sense of union that artists and intellectuals showed in 2008 has now disappeared: some of them started to support other parties, and a few of them stayed with PSOE.

A study among Chinese middle-aged intellectuals showed that stress was one of most important HRQOL-related factors [ 18].

The hero's intellectual showing-off aside, in his review Giles Foden considered it a "dangerous gamble" that pays off.

'TIME COD E Yes, the latest from Mike Figgis ("Leaving Los Vegas"; "The Loss of Sexual Innocence"), is full of formal gimmickry and intellectual showing-off, but it's also tremendous fun, and the best Hollywood insider-satire since Robert Altman's "The Player".

All the same, Mr. Currin believes this is his most intimate, least intellectual show.

He is a tyrant of the intellectual show — pointed, smart and unyielding.

It may be a cliche, but the French really do like an intellectual show; we mistrust it.