The phrase "intellectual standing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone's level of knowledge, education, or intellectual credibility in a particular field or context.
Example: "Her intellectual standing in the academic community is widely recognized due to her extensive research and publications."
Alternatives: "intellectual status" or "academic standing."
But the right is making itself smaller by applauding him, and, in so doing, forfeiting what little moral and intellectual standing that they have left.
During his Brussels years, Marx developed his views and, through confrontations with the chief leaders of the working-class movement, established his intellectual standing.
While many politicians, including some who were once his pals in the dissident movement, have enriched themselves and incurred great unpopularity, he has often looked isolated, an intellectual standing too far above the fray to make much difference.
By writing long (too long, I keep telling him) columns in a deliberative setting, and by rationing his thoughtful if lugubrious television appearances, he maintains a serious intellectual standing.
His ecumenical outreach, persistent pursuit of reconciliation and his intellectual standing vastly outweighed whatever controversy touched his theological opinions, and he was seen to be uniquely qualified for the office and the traditional cardinal's hat that soon followed.
Likewise, in the '80s, asymmetric shrouds by Japanese designers like Rei Kawakubo, who worked in only "three shades of black," were beloved by academics as an expression of their high intellectual standing.
The man was his own intellectual personal trainer, standing over himself with a shrill whistle as he ground out the paragraphs, pored through Dostoyevsky, analyzed "Hamlet" line by line and typed up his novel's 1,100 page manuscript.
One hopeful sign is that some Chinese intellectuals are themselves standing up to call for systemic change.
The big electoral tent that New Labour built may have collapsed, but many of its intellectual pillars are still standing.
Far from being preservationist in the conventional sense, it was fleshed out through an intellectual network that gained standing and adherents through paranoia about Communism.
Descartes's preferred habit was to stay warmly in bed in the mornings; Christina had him give her intellectual nourishment, bareheaded and standing in deference to her royalty, in her icy palace at 5 a.m.
