Sentence examples for intellectual sparring from inspiring English sources

Mr. Jenkins called it "fun, intellectual sparring".

This required a constant interlocutor or intellectual sparring partner.

Webb had been an intellectual sparring partner for Wells for some time.

Berezovsky had a doctorate in applied mathematics and fancied himself Sumption's intellectual sparring partner.

So his imminent departure would appear to deprive Mr. Bernanke of an intellectual sparring partner, strengthening the hand of the doves on the Fed board.

But Andreessen applied a maxim from his friend and intellectual sparring partner Peter Thiel, who co-founded PayPal and was an early investor in LinkedIn and Yelp.

Watch the sparks fly as these two UFC-certified intellectuals spar on Murdoch's future dumping ground.

The sparring, sexually divided intellectuals of this early comedy thrive on verbal gamesmanship.

Here's a snippet from my original argument: … the more purely secular liberalism has become, the more it has spent down its Christian inheritance the more its ideals seem to hang from what Christopher Hitchens Calvinistt sparring partner Douglas Wilson has called intellectual "skyhooks," suspended halfway between our earth and the heaven on which many liberals have long since given up.

Morton Abramowitz, a veteran diplomat who has worked with, and occasionally sparred with, Wolfowitz, calls him "the pre-eminent house intellectual".

Most are small, but Germany's Piratenpartei, founded in 2006, has captured seats in four regional parliaments.The green movement had intellectual leadership from within academia, such as that of Commoner and his sometime sparring partner, Paul Ehrlich.