Inserting a few appropriate, intellectual words here and there can make you seem smarter.
The reason, he explained, is his conclusion that President Obama is a true intellectual — a word that is frequently considered an epithet among populists with a robust suspicion of Ivy League elites.
He is an "intellectual" (dread word) who, on behalf of the government, is considering the future of large estates.
The word "intellectual" conjures images of a tweedy bookworm pondering fine points of literature or philosophy.
The word "intellectual" often brings a lot of dull baggage with it.
But alone among European countries, we use the word "intellectual" as a term of abuse.
Yet she was the first Tory leader to use the word "intellectual" as a term of unqualified approval.
In American culture, at least, the word intellectual lost much of its patina in the Reagan years.
One of the distinctive aspects of British culture is that the word "intellectual" seems to be regarded as a term of abuse.
The 30,000 word intellectual property chapter contains proposals to increase the term of patents, including medical patents, beyond 20 years, and lower global standards for patentability.
