The phrase "intellectually vital" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means something or someone that is crucial or essential to intellectual development or growth. Example: "Critical thinking skills are intellectually vital for success in higher education."
Her work with her friend and colleague John Allen on thinking through the relations between the social and the spatial made OU geography intellectually vital.
Ullmann is very good at evoking the peculiar, charged stasis of a household in which mentally active and intellectually vital people are resolutely failing to communicate with each other — the loneliness of communality, in short.
Despite the linguistic fireworks and catty comments, there's a sobriety at work here, and it's interesting to note that Sontag emerges from her debagging stripped of pretension but no less intellectually vital for it.
The story of Die Zeit, which was sold soon after Mr Bucerius's death to Holtzbrink, another big German media concern, in many ways mirrors the cultural development of post-war western Germany: spare and intellectually vital in the early decades, verbose and slightly dull nowadays.
MARCH JULIAN BREAM TRIBUTE Mr. Bream doesn't celebrate his 75th birthday until July, but several of the best American classical guitarists of the generation who grew up listening to Mr. Bream's recordings and absorbing his intellectually vital, post-Segovian style are banding together to salute him in anticipation of that milestone.
She was then, as now, a real presence -- intellectually alive, vital, engaging, and deeply committed to the welfare of her community, which she defined in broad and inclusive terms.
She was a model of remaining intellectually active and vital throughout her long life and a great inspiration to all who knew her.
But too many soul-less jackets, destined for an afternoon of scones and clotted cream, seemed disconnected from the kind of vital, intellectually hungry life Mr. Beene himself so vigorously leads.
Even officials who acknowledge a vital threat intellectually may not be ready to act upon such beliefs at great cost or at high risk".
The critics said: Empire magazine gave Birdman five stars, saying it represented "everything you want movies to be: vital, challenging, intellectually alive, visually stunning, emotionally affecting".
But "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena" is ambitious and intellectually restless.
