Sentence examples for intellectual vacuum from inspiring English sources

Yet these events did not happen in an intellectual vacuum.

There is a leadership vacuum and an intellectual vacuum.

In their intellectual vacuum, every name, every word, every association that Lyon deploys is lost.

For many years, psychology, like anthropology, operated in a strange intellectual vacuum.

But there is an intellectual vacuum in the party these days.

Where we expected deep deliberation to have taken place, we found instead an intellectual vacuum.

Rogers was also a figure of exceptional diffidence, leaving an intellectual-political vacuum that was filled by the worst as well as the best of the Nixon-Kissinger policies.

Flattery, however crude or instrumental, plays an inflated role in the intellectual and moral vacuum of his Presidency, and a politics of ingratiation is by its nature erratic.

But when it comes to how to organise the vast flows of trade and finance whose relative orderliness and growth are so crucial for prosperity and employment everywhere, there is an intellectual and political vacuum.

But the biggest surprises have been inside Labour, where none of the experienced candidates for leader caught the imagination and in the vacuum – the intellectual non-event – of the campaign grew cherry blossom at Christmas.

The party's current leadership vacuum and intellectual disorientation create the perfect conditions for renewal and the emergence of a new agenda.