Sentence examples for of critical intelligence from inspiring English sources

I wrote that Zadie Smith is one of the current re-inventors of the (middlebrow) book review because she combines a very high level of critical intelligence with accessible language, an abbreviated format, and a strong personality.

The South also benefitted from the stream of critical intelligence that came its way from the many former Union officers who swore their allegiance to the South after secession.

Lewis's idiosyncratic combination of critical intelligence and humanity comes across far better in his novels than in Lingeman's biography, which often degenerates into a list of events, few of which reveal anything about Lewis's inner life.

And there was the situation as it actually was, the fourth version, but no one knew precisely what that was, and this was not owing to lack of effort or ingenuity or some failure of critical intelligence.

"Many times," he writes, "I have felt myself on the brink of a pessimistic conclusion as to the function of thinking, of intelligence, in society", even to the point of wondering whether "the role of critical intelligence", which he had exercised so often and at such costs to himself, might not be "dangerous, and very nearly useless".

"The recent disclosure that F.B.I. field agents were blocked from pursuing an investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui because officials in Washington did not believe there was sufficient evidence of criminal activity to support a warrant points out how one person's judgment in applying an imprecise test may result in the costly loss of critical intelligence," Mr. Cohen said.

She burns before the audience, radiating not just the heat of her imagination but the glare of her critical intelligence.

It's exciting to see Jupp attack subjects worthy of his critical intelligence and wholly deserving – far more than wheelie suitcases – of his moral outrage.

But the artists' application of a critical intelligence to their material seems unmistakable.

He realized, he says, that she was right, that he was "a pessimist and depressive and someone of high critical intelligence" and that he needed to change.

Stopping just before the point of permanent harm undermines their primary argument that they condoned waterboarding as a necessary means of gathering critical intelligence that would save us from another attack.