Some bristled at names that others mentioned, a reminder that creating circles of intellectuals is often more delicate than brain surgery.
It's a world where women's achievements, be they athletic or intellectual, are often perceived to be at odds with their ability to perform a particular kind of femininity.
Which was on the way out by the time he got here, but he still found time to ask Edith Sitwell a couple of searching questions and give us a quick, vivid character sketch (as was often the case, and may still be, the anglophone colonial intellectual is often a better, if more conservative, guardian of English-language culture than the native).
Britain is a country in which the word "intellectual" is often preceded by the sneering adjective "so-called", where smart people are put down because they are "too clever by half" and where a cerebral politician (David Willetts) was for years saddled with the soubriquet "Two Brains".
Doers and doings in business, entertainment and technology: "Chaos theory," the '90s cocktail-party favorite of demi-intellectuals, was often summed up in the analogy of the Brazilian butterly whose wing-flutter causes a Malaysian monsoon.
Large wholesale book dealers send commercial books to the provinces, while new intellectual titles are often confined to Moscow and St Petersburg alone.
Significant intellectual impairments are often observed as well [ 9].
Furthermore, intellectual abilities are often impaired in children with ADHD [ 3].
Patients with intellectual disabilities are often rushed to hospitals for treatment when their physical conditions become severe.
