Sentence examples for intellectually dead from inspiring English sources
"Political parties are finished; the Liberal Democrats are intellectually dead," he declared, rather to the disappointment of those who had come to the meeting in search of something other than to be reminded of their existential futility.
It was (still is) intellectually dead and had no substantive impact (as I predicted it would be last October) but we often couldn't help gawping and poking at it.
No matter how comfortable a situation might be, if you are intellectually stagnant you might as well be intellectually dead.
Unlike passive varieties of entertainment, the good novel does not leave us numbed up, dumbed down, mentally impoverished, weakened or intellectually dead.
A caliphate is another term for that same fifth century: a barren, corpse-strewn, intellectually dead time and place where is there is no argument to make, no negotiation to put forth.
Some more acronymns: "The GATB's motto is 'GA is IDDG' which stands for "Intellectually Drop Dead Gorgeous".
At its best, "Waking the Dead" suggests an intellectually upscale answer to "Love Story".
If Americans sometimes view Europe (according to the National Review in 2004) as "demographically, economically, intellectually, scientifically, and politically... a dead end," this is because postwar Europeans have seemed more interested in disagreeing with each other than in becoming a renewed force in the world.
"These days," the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm wrote in 1997, "the Enlightenment can be dismissed as anything from superficial and intellectually naïve to a conspiracy of dead white men in periwigs to provide the intellectual foundation for Western imperialism".
While I can comprehend it all intellectually, on an emotional level the dead protesters or shot soldiers are barely more real than the hookers I mow down in Grand Theft Auto.
My tête-à-têtes with this feisty, intellectually voracious youngster revived memories of dead-of-night conversations about the meaning of life in smoky Parisian cafes when I was 21, before life knocked the stuffing out of me.
