Sentence examples for intellectual shows from inspiring English sources

NPR's new entries, Mr. Nuzum said, are partly informed by a survey that showed new audiences wanted lighter, more humorous content and intellectual shows not tied to the news.

It's a show you watch with your brain turned off, and in an age of such complex and intellectual shows like "Mad Men" and "Lost," it's nice to watch a train wreck on your couch and enjoy the ride.

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.

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

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

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

For as well as being an excellent novel about spatial relations (compare Tom McCarthy's equally satisfying Men in Space) and layers of urban history and immigrant experience, Open City is a novel about an intellectual show-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".

TV isn't good for your psyche and unless it's an intellectual show, it won't teach you anything.

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.