Sentence examples for intellectual tyranny from inspiring English sources

Mr. Haider has made a lot of headway in Austria precisely by questioning the "intellectual tyranny" of the left.

America in the Reagan years was reorienting itself after a dizzying and traumatic period of social upheaval, groping to find some balance between genuine enlightenment and a new kind of intellectual tyranny.

Locke claims that "absolutism has come forward again in new and formidable guise," and he warns us to be on guard for "social and political forms of it, with their associated intellectual tyrannies of authoritarian dogmatism and uniformitarian universality" (PID 53).

In Russia, the tragic sense is not limited to Chekhovian intellectuals or tyranny's victims.

By David Remnick In Russia, the tragic sense is not limited to Chekhovian intellectuals or tyranny's victims.

Many of the Essais denounce the materialism and intolerance of the Second Empire (1852 70) in the name of Renan's aristocratic ideal: intellectuals, acting as "bastions of the spirit," must, he affirms, resist tyranny by intellectual and spiritual refinement.

In her latest book, "Nomad: From Islam to America" (Free Press; $27), she reminds her readers of the West's tradition of intellectual revolt against clerical tyranny and warns of the insidious, intransigent enemies in their midst.

I felt something happen inside - intellectual anger about beauty tyranny changed into physical rejection of it, a less sophisticated but more formidable force - and I understood the difference between them.

They will also see the famous courthouse of Areios Pagos in Pnyka - where they opposed the tyranny and intellectual slavery of the established civilizations of the East.

Are American intellectuals any more or less likely to embrace tyranny than European intellectuals?

We can leave that little problem to Lee Siegel's publisher, and note what this collection makes emphatically clear: Siegel's valuable role as a cultural provocateur, tossing off intellectual grenades about the social tyranny of money or the failures of the Bush administration while ostensibly defending the dumb sitcom "Joey" or skewering the hit "My Name Is Earl".