A group of French intellectual worthies once proposed, rather self-flatteringly, that French be the sole legal language of the EU, because of its supposedly unmatchable rigour and precision.
The hockey coach/commentator community (the revolving door strengthens the affinity, as Keith Gessen over at n+1 has observed) behaves as though merely matching lines (choosing a set of players to go up against an opposing set of players) is an intellectual feat worthy of Kasparov or Big Blue.
The founders of the United States considered intellectual property worthy of a special place in the Constitution—"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries".
Critics from Berkeley's faculty and students said Yiannopoulos lacks any intellectual argument worthy of an academic setting and that his tendency for harassment, such as his role trolling Jones, is not a meaningful way of exercising free speech.
Sadly, Mr Boyle is an intellectual pigmy not worthy of his subject material.
Longhand multiplication of numbers using paper and pencil is considered a worthy intellectual achievement.
While " 'Nutcracker' Nation" is informative and reflects years of worthy intellectual investigation, it is awkward and badly organized, like a pas de deux danced by two clumsy high school kids with no ear for rhythm.
Mr. Friel, the author of "Dancing at Lughnasa," "Philadelphia, Here I Come" and "Translations," which have all appeared on Broadway in the last decade and are all characterized by the kind of comic melancholy that evokes Chekhov, is in admiration mode here, but he is also onto a worthy intellectual idea.
He also wrote of the fear that liberalism would grow flat and flaccid without a worthy intellectual sparring partner to keep it fresh.
But she has respect for Davidson, whom she deems her intellectual equal and a worthy opponent.
