Sentence examples for modest intellectual from inspiring English sources

We were sitting in the Rawda Café, the center of the modest intellectual life of Damascus, where television stars, screenwriters, and poets gather for leisurely mid-morning chats.

For a Modest Personality Trait, 'Intellectual Humility' Packs a Punch!

He insisted, to an audience with modest knowledge of western intellectual life, that Mr Kundera's works "are of great human and spiritual value".

In this paradoxical fashion, an otherwise extraordinarily rigorous mind tackles historical issues with little apparent awareness that these issues, in their own modest way, also demand intellectual discrimination.

Though Camus seemed modest when describing his intellectual ambitions, he was confident enough as a philosopher to articulate not only his own philosophy but also a critique of religion and a fundamental critique of modernity (one that anticipated postmodernism).

At the other end of the spectrum, the Thansadet by Cambo Design is only an intellectual exercise, a modest pull-behind trailer that doubles as a houseboat.

Some of the roots of the concept of objectivity in American journalism are more modest than the high-flown intellectual ones you mention.

"Anamorph" is a far more modest endeavor in aesthetic and intellectual terms: It's self-conscious about its influences without being self-reflexive.

Her intellectual gifts were modest in comparison to those of the most gifted scientists, but they were fully adequate.

"The Martian" is a well-decorated film that shows off a design consistent with function rather than with pleasure; its modest but meticulous plausibility hits an intellectual sweet spot.

Three young legal scholars have created a sensation in Chinese intellectual circles with a modest proposal: to enforce personal rights that are guaranteed in the Constitution, starting with the protection of downtrodden migrant workers in the cities.