Sentence examples for narrow intellectual from inspiring English sources
Both patterns have their critics, the first because it produces narrow intellectual specialists, the second because it encourages dilettantism and inadequate depth.
"Because of its emphasis on testing and accountability in particular subjects, it apparently forces some school districts down narrow intellectual paths," Dr. Reese said.
The Western world still has prickly problems to confront: The progressive disappearance of the great issues that used to fire our minds has resulted in a narrow intellectual life — just as the possibility of reaching new horizons has considerably increased thanks to modern means of communication.
It started out in the very narrow intellectual circles at the Serbian Academy.
The leading Nazi critic Fritz Stege denounced Leifs's "agonizingly narrow-minded intellectual world".
The leading Nazi critic Fritz Stege denounced Leifs's "agonizingly narrow-minded intellectual world". The composer's German career effectively ended, although not until 1944 was he allowed to leave Germany with his family for his wife, a fortunate escape.
He's the alazonic, self-interested politician that Socrates mocked in the early Platonic dialogues, the short-sighted English jingoist that Jonathan Swift so abhorred, and the privately educated, narrow-minded intellectual dolt that Oscar Wilde so often attacked.
Yet these people are surrounded only by others like themselves for their entire lives, leading to a lack of sensitivity towards those outside their social clique and, perhaps more alarmingly, a narrower intellectual perspective.
This narrowing of intellectual ambitions has coincided with a crisis of authority.
"Hyperprofessionalism" is a disease whose symptoms include self-referentiality, self-absorption, and a narrowing of intellectual focus.
Finally, and relatedly, some have suggested that the current subscription-based system is inherently conservative and has the potential to lead to a narrowing of intellectual and scholarly life.
