Sentence examples for mastering intellectual from inspiring English sources

We must get athletic activities in the schools back to an extracurricular activity of secondary importance, and stress the value of learning and mastering intellectual pursuits.

This position was enunciated most trenchantly by Burke, conservatism's "master intellectual", acknowledged by almost all subsequent conservatives.

He's not somebody who has mastered an actual intellectual discipline and takes seriously the idea of intellectual discipline--that is, thinking not however one might wish, but in accord with certain canons derived from objective reality.

From Oxford he went to Stanford to do a doctorate in economics, but decided he was more interested in learning Chinese, and demonstrated his intellectual brilliance by mastering the language so quickly he was writing poetry in Mandarin within a year.

Müller was from the German duchy of Anhalt-Dessau and took up Sanskrit at university as a fresh intellectual challenge after mastering Greek and Latin.

A lovely, subtle point, and one so typical of this great and enduring master of intellectual subtleties.

If he is a compelling speaker (despite his thick Eastern European accent), he is also an academic magician and master of intellectual sleight of hand.

The news media had long cast him as the "Zen master," an intellectual with an interest in Eastern thought who used Buddhism to manage the titanic egos of Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant.

Their intellectual outlook reflects the strengths of this type of technocratic education, such as a capacity for hard work and for mastering complex briefs.

It is a sure means to gain access to the city, its services and activities, but using fixed-route1 requires knowledge and know-how that all travelers do not master, such as people with intellectual disabilities.

"But he's also very much an intellectual who wants to master everything".