In meritocracies, though, it's the very intelligence of our leaders that creates the worst disasters.
At the same time, it is this very intelligence that has been misguided and subverted to cause a number of catastrophic events, like wars and other atrocities.
The novel mocks Marcus's very intelligence and intellectualism with its evocation of the seemingly eternal torment that his intelligence imposes on him.
And it may have been their very intelligence that did them in.
(@officialcafu) I hope to see Mertesacker play today, very intelligence defender and strong.
Perhaps Mr. Maazel's very intelligence contributes to a common impression of him, or misapprehension.
The Britishreview has been pushed by the very intelligence figures who were in the frame of the Butler report.
Intelligence, by its very nature, is usually uncertain and often wrong.
The show could, on occasion, be just a little too clever and smug (and I wasn't a fan of some convenient coincidences), but in those kinds of moments, its narrative intelligence served it very well indeed.
It was a good school but it was of its time, in that it defined intelligence very narrowly.
