Mr. Blau's intellectuality and esoteric vocabulary probably did not help in New York, suggested Alan Mandell, an actor and business manager of the San Francisco workshop, in a recent interview.
Mediated has the same liveliness and intense intellectuality as Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media--which is a way of saying there are anywhere from three to ten stimulating ideas on every page.
Bolzano's liberal intellectuality and his progressive theological and political ideas, combined with his practical activities and his enormous influence as a priest and as a university professor on people in general and the opinion leaders in Bohemia in particular, were a highly explosive mixture in the political and religious atmosphere in which Bolzano lived.
This means not only supporting them "from outside" once they have occurred, as many have done, but conceiving of one's intellectual activity as part and parcel of a collective intellectuality.
More seriously, some of the characters appear blurry or under-drawn - especially Kiki Belsey, who seems intended to embody a kind of feelingful alternative to Howard's hyper-intellectuality but never quite comes out from behind the enormous bosom with which her creator has a little too symbolically endowed her.
Rickman's character Leonard has a similarly odd pedagogical method, and his young writers, especially Lily Rabe's Kate hopes her intellectuality is on a higher level than Kerouac's, dismissing him as "a misogynist hack".
It's all about openness and intellectuality.
Mr. Malkovich's acquired Euro mannerisms and cold, aloof intellectuality dovetail neatly with Highsmith's fabulously perverse creation.
Desplechin has expressed admiration for the work of both, but his pictures have a genuine intellectuality that Allen's lack and are more deeply felt and less neatly patterned than Curtis's.
The intuitive aspect of Mr. Dreyblatt's work does not overshadow its intellectuality.
Compared with the cool intellectuality of Mr. Ligon and Ms. Simpson's art, Mr. Lovell's is cloyingly sentimental.
