Sentence examples for maverick intellectuals from inspiring English sources

He was particularly close, for example, to poker-playing maverick intellectuals such as Anthony Holden and Al Alvarez.

Behind them was a conservative movement that started in the political wilderness, a band of maverick intellectuals exiled from fashion and power in the 1940s and '50s, doubtful of their claim on the future.

White was one of those maverick intellectuals and politicians, like Thorstein Veblen, Charles Beard and Robert La Follette, who came out of the rural American heartland to off the pieties-and powers-that-be.

But by the time his Senate seat is up for grabs again in 2018, Cruz presumably hopes his cowboy-booted feet will be on the desk of the Oval Office, a maverick intellectual improbably carried to ultimate power by those who love to hate big government.

"They are not big enough for the moment" is the remark of a tabletop ornament, a decoration the Republicans' very own maverick intellectual.

So Britain's maverick politician-intellectual, Enoch Powell.

That electronics should be at the heart of the Christmas lectures seems somehow fitting given that they were kicked off in 1825 by Michael Faraday – the intellectual maverick who put forward the principle of electromagnetic induction.

He is the nation's most outspokenly liberal archbishop, an intellectual maverick who often infuriated the Vatican by pressing for the church to consider liturgical changes and the ordination of women and married men.

He is always demonstrating his "independence," his "maverick streak," his genius for "intellectual pragmatism".

Could she have managed to stay afloat amongst the nation's leading thinkers and intellectuals and political mavericks and bosses during the Constitutional convention?

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