Sentence examples for mark of intellectual from inspiring English sources

The doctorate of philosophy is no Mark of the Beast, but a mark of intellectual respectability that evangelicals have long coveted.

Beards, once the mark of intellectual or spiritual gravitas, have been replaced by severe, short haircuts.

Nonfiction books almost never get such scrutiny, however, so notes are a crucial mark of intellectual good faith.

He will add, later, that "it is scarcely a mark of intellectual profundity to have noticed that our society is big", but for the moment prefers to plead an ironic distance – "old geezers like me become steadily less relevant.

In such a context, silence becomes an absence, a mark of intellectual abdication, a rejection of humanity.Ms Maitland is a Roman Catholic convert and she is frank about her desire "to explore my own spirituality and deepen my growing sense of the reality of God".

Some aides and close associates say Mr. Kerry's fluidity is the mark of an intellectual who grasps the subtleties of issues, inhabits their nuances and revels in the deliberative process.

Goldberg's squabbling characters have many of the qualities that Nathan Zuckerman, in Philip Roth's "Anatomy Lesson," called "the very mark of the intellectual Jews" -- the disputatious stance, the aggressively marginal sensibility, the disavowal of community ties, the taste for scrutinizing a social event as though it were a dream or a work of art".

But then reliability cannot be a distinctive mark of the intellectual virtues.

His verdict could hardly be more categorical: "It is the mark of an intellectually pathologized society that intellectuals and politicians will reject their opponents' realities".

Emerging from the tradition of the philosophical physicists, Schlick's early thought bears the marks of his intellectual legacy.

But many believe that Monday's midnight expulsion of four senior members of the party, including founder members Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, marks the retreat of "intellectual politics" and dissent in a party which rode to power in the capital, Delhi, promising an invigorating narrative of corruption-free, democratic politics.