Sentence examples for intellectual trends from inspiring English sources

I suspect, moreover, that Douthat has overestimated the influence of intellectual trends like the Jesus Seminar.

He was to remain throughout his life an "archaist," opposed to prevailing intellectual trends.

A few decades ago, one of the major intellectual trends on the African continent was Pan-Africanism.

He was the foreign editor from 1990-92, and edited the Outlook section, covering politics, economics, foreign policy and intellectual trends from 1986-90.

Advertised as "a snapshot of the intellectual trends that dominate our age", the most glaring trend seems to be the absence of women.

Her career amounted to an exercise in hands-on art criticism — a one-person age of manual reproduction — informed by emerging intellectual trends.

Now, the intellectual trend is all the other way.

Pan-Africanism was a far more serious movement — it was an intellectual trend, while Ivory Coast's new brand of nationalism doesn't deserve the same qualifier.

In his latest work, Godin (2008) explains that innovation is a recent collective passion, that this passion might be an intellectual trend dissimulating the intricate problems facing industrial societies.

We are concerned, nevertheless, by the effects of a dominant intellectual trend within Foucaldian scholarship that promotes an, as it were, undetermined, diffuse Foucault, an intellectual figure whose loosely assembled writing can be visited and savoured for its happily disengaged temper, and insists on a correspondingly unsystematized proliferation of his work and ideas.

This argument feeds into the increasingly anti-intellectual trend in education reform that is moving away from comprehensive liberal arts education and instead advocating teaching students practical skills of "real life".