I also had developed an intellectual thirst for science.
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The answer is also because when I picked up the words of Elizabeth Johnson, the Catholic theologian, she inspired me so much that I began to read the Bible with fresh eyes and a deepened intellectual thirst.
"They will have the same qualifications, grades, extracurricular activities that Ivy League universities look for, and an intellectual hunger and thirst.
What you will also find, though, are the tools of transformation: generosity, patience, intellectual alertness, a thirst for balance and a trust in the fragile beneficence of beauty that is both actively utopian and utterly reality-based, as the experience of art should be.
Dr. Schrero was a true intellectual, with a real thirst for learning.
It's a thirst for intellectual friction, and appetite for a dialectic, that drives all of his work.
The first speakers outdid one another with bitter invective, ranting on and on about the tainted pride of intellectuals, their egotism, their thirst for praise, money, and excess.
In speaking at campuses around the country, he said, he has found "a thirst and an intellectual curiosity" about the military, but also a lot of stereotyping.
In standard histories Hunter may be an enlightenment hero; in Mantel's reimagining, he is somebody much stranger, stabbing and infecting himself out of intellectual curiosity, twisted and tormented by his thirst for experimental knowledge.
One sort of argument for it moves from the premise that there is no phenomenally or intentionally distinctive character common to all instances of, for example, new romantic love, slaking a powerful thirst, sexual orgasm, solving a hard intellectual problem, and fireside reminiscence amongst friends, to the conclusion that there is no such thing as phenomenal or intentional pleasure.
