"Whether or not we believe in it intellectually, something deeper has set in and we compare ourselves to that".
He's not very deep intellectually, but he has a fantastic ability to take up and absorb good ideas.
Instead, they're aiming for something like a more authentic and absurd version of Girls that might not cut as deep intellectually but is definitely as well observed and often much funnier.
The turning point is almost always when they realize -- intellectually, emotionally, and deep down in their bones -- that, not only does perfectionism not work, it's counterproductive.
Of course, I didn't know it intellectually, but rather deep down inside, in a place thickly covered by fear, sadness, disappointment and a desire to make it work as I believed I was supposed to do.
But it's also intellectually sound, going deeper into Mr. Charles's basic interest, which is the affinities between Caribbean music and music from the American South, New Orleans jazz in particular.
One unusually articulate male dancer imagines the frustration of what it's like to grow intellectually and perceive deeper interpretive approaches to a role while the deteriorating body can no longer execute what the mind conceives.
In a prospectus for Leverkühn's String Quartet, Adorno called the first movement "a kind of conversation among four instruments"; Mann made it a "deep-thinking, intellectually strenuous conversation among four instruments taking counsel from each other".
Jeffrey Toobin's "Heavyweight" describes how Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has changed the Court's views on gender issues, while Margaret Talbot chronicles the intellectually combative style and deep-seated certainty of Justice Antonin Scalia in "Supreme Confidence".
