Sentence examples for intellectual which from inspiring English sources

People deemed intellectual — which might mean simply that they wore eyeglasses — were tortured or murdered outright.

He is known as "an intellectual," which, in Italy, carries the presumption of being an honest man.

The excitement, however, is intellectual, which in theater is enough to arouse interest but not to sustain it.

SIR - Although I very much appreciated your leader on the demise of the intellectual, which focused on Alexander Solzhenitsyn, I am concerned about your glaring blind spots.

Nobody is quicker than O'Hara, but nobody wishes more to linger in those experiences — sensual, aesthetic, intellectual — which carry their own serene time signatures.

Diller and Scofidio are fiercely intellectual, which some people find off-putting, so I hasten to reassure even myself that the two are excellent form-makers.

He is a bookish man who plays the part of the anti-intellectual, which fits an Administration whose culture discourages displays of esoteric knowledge and, its critics say, of useful knowledge as well.

The only other document of note was a lengthy report on preparations for a World Congress of Intellectuals, which was held in Wroclaw, Poland, in 1948.

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

My face exploder was Grant Farred's "What's my name: Black Vernacular Intellectuals", which characterised Muhammad Ali, Bob Marley, C.L.R. James and Stuart Hall as "vernacular intellectuals", who used their art as a platform for criticism and discourse.

He was an originator of what came to be called the Danube school, a painting movement influenced by humanist intellectuals, which vivified religious motifs with realistic landscape settings and raking light.