Indeed, in some crucial ways, they represent an intellectual step backward from a left that had recognised atheism as necessary but scarcely sufficient.
He spoke of taking a new intellectual step beginning with his experience as a member of the Resistance living in France during the German occupation, which he expressed artistically by describing collective action against the evil threatening the community in his novel, The Plague.
I've just dragged myself away from Just Cause 3, onto Far Cry Primal, which I see as being an intellectual step-up.
The first step is the most critical, but if it does not occur, then the prodigious intellectual machinery (Step 2) and the departmental resources (Step 3) are not going to be brought into play to address this problem, not to mention the possible experimental programs (Step 4) that could be used.
But as he well knows, precisely the same intellectual two-step was performed by George W. Bush's many critics, who simultaneously denounced him as a scheming, constitution-shredding warmonger and as a world-historical dunce.
"Our ministers and intellectuals might step outside of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, take a brief walk beyond their ghettos, which would surely help them to cast just a little doubt on a few of their certitudes," Esther Benbassa, a senator and researcher at the Sorbonne, wrote in Libération.
Immediate change is limited to options that are only one step (intellectual or biological) away.
Wright's Wilde is an intellectual dreamer who rarely steps outside the literary realm.
In season six, she finally transfers from their stagnant suburb to an art school in Chicago, the first of many hopeful steps toward intellectual and financial freedom.
