Sentence examples for intellectual tragedy from inspiring English sources

Most important, it would be an intellectual tragedy.

"The intellectual tragedy of the New York crime miracle is that it had no experiments to identify just what worked," Dr. Sherman said.

"Vietnam has become the great intellectual tragedy of our times," he wrote in "War, Peace, and the Viet Cong" (M.I.T., 1969).

Then there is the intellectual side, where real tragedy lurks.

It would be a tragedy if intellectual curiosity were to become the preserve of an ever-narrowing cognitive elite.

This has been discussed extensively on ethical, legal and social grounds, and the counterproductive underuse of scarce resources when they are protected by excessive intellectual property rights (the tragedy of the 'anticommons' [ 3]) has been pointed out; these discussions have led to proposals to establish patent pools to facilitate development of diagnostic tests [ 4].

And so it is a kind of tragedy for that intellectual tradition that Hitchens ended up doing it harm.

The specific circumstances and local passions that shaped them have long been forgotten, and subsequent events — the rise of Lincoln as a towering national figure and the Civil War — make it almost mandatory to read the debates as an ominous prologue or an intellectual dress rehearsal for national tragedy.

Some psychologists make a distinction between moral intuition, the physical horror at seeing someone hit by a car or the tears of a parent whose son is kidnapped; and moral reason, the more intellectual process of grasping larger tragedies, like floods and famine.

Think of "Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville" as intellectual Windex for what David Wells splattered on us earlier this spring.

The tragedy of Russell's intellectual life is that the deeper he thought about logic, the more his exalted conception of its significance came under threat.