Sentence examples for intellectual standoff from inspiring English sources

In many ways, it is this intellectual standoff rather than the terrorist attack that reveals a profound clash – not between civilisations, or the left and the right, but a clash of old and new visions of the world in the space we call the west, which is increasingly diverse, unequal and volatile.

As the Simon sons, George Turvey and Adam Harley sharply capture the standoff between physical and intellectual energy that recurs in encounters between men in Miller's plays.

TAIZ, Yemen — This ancient city among the steep cliffs of central Yemen, once known as the commercial and intellectual hub of this south Arabian nation, has emerged as the violent center of a long political standoff between a president who refuses to step down and demonstrators who want him out.

Standoff ends.

No standoff.

With a standoff.

A standoff begins.

A political standoff erupted.

That standoff persists.

A standoff ensued.

A standoff in goal?