Sentence examples for intellectuals were drawn from inspiring English sources

Artists and intellectuals were drawn there as avant-garde movements like Cubism and Surrealism were taking shape.

Initially, Latin American intellectuals were drawn to the Cuban revolution in part because Mr. Castro, unlike leaders of their own countries, was willing to stand up to the United States.

It was no longer just a mass audience that was yoked to Hollywood's circumlocutions (Mailer called classic Hollywood "a mother-in-law's mother-in-law") — young artists and intellectuals were drawn to the cinema by the waves of international directors who also instructed them in American movies.

Oruka was concerned that African intellectuals were drawn into this false assumption regarding the intellectual inclination of African people, maintaining the belief that critique is absent from indigenous African thought.

But if the list is anything to go by, then the dominant professions from which contemporary British public intellectuals are drawn are journalists (20%), writers (19%), historians (14%) and critics (13%).

Steinberg was one of those mid-twentieth-century Jewish intellectuals who were drawn to Catholicism.

Little wonder that intellectuals, writers, poets and artists were drawn to Mexico City, which quickly established itself as the central axis of this cultural renewal and became home to an artistic revolution.

Like many Parisian intellectuals, L'Herbier was drawn to the emerging Art Deco style, which fused the city's tradition of fine craftsmanship with the industrial aesthetic championed by avant-garde architects like Le Corbusier.

Finding it more intellectual, he was drawn to jazz, and away from the more visceral rock.

Pianists intent on proving their intellectual depth are drawn to the five late sonatas, once thought mystifying but now almost overplayed (except for the formidable "Hammerklavier," which is only for those with technique to spare).

This novel about a young Brahmin intellectual who is drawn to a group of bohemian Westerners in the holy city of Benares has as much to do with India's encounter with itself as it does with the clash of East and West.