Sentence examples for intellectual strain from inspiring English sources

What kind of escape did it offer, exchanging one form of intellectual strain for another?

But an understanding of Whitlam requires an intellectual strain to which he is, perhaps, under-committed.

The fact that you can get outside of a Lurie novel at one sitting and with no great intellectual strain is misleading.

As for his heritage, he said that he comes from two distinct Jewish strains: "one very successful mercantile strain, and one highly unsuccessful intellectual strain".

Suggest he was influenced by the pelting, intellectual strain of bebop that took over jazz in the 1940s, and he would say nope, he didn't listen to it; he only ever wanted to do his own thing.

These sites of folk devotion, which were dear to his predecessor, speak to a more ground-up spirituality that has sometimes seemed at odds with his own intellectual strain.

It is unclear whether Mr. Sadr and Mr. Hakim can convince enough of Iraq's younger Shiite clerics, who reflect the many intellectual strains of Iraqi Shiism, that their traditional leaders are morally compromised and politically irrelevant.

That strikes me as a serious addition to one of the bleakest of French intellectual strains: the misanthropy so scornful of hope that, as in Céline's "Journey to the End of the Night," it fuels its own momentum of dismay.

He argues that this anti-intellectual strain is largely responsible for the test-score gap between black and white middle-class children.

In the end, we liked the suggestions that tweaked the N.F.L. for its subtle anti-intellectual strain, the way that it plays up playing down.

McWhorter at least brings attention to its possible connection to the anti-intellectual strain that he confronted in Mount Airy and that he says he finds in his black students.