Sentence examples for old intellectuals from inspiring English sources

Later that year, the Cultural Revolution began, and hundreds of old intellectuals were beaten, whipped, kicked, and killed in public by the Red Guards.

The soul-searching continues today as museums retire exhibits that reflect the old intellectual baggage.

But we were in love with the same old intellectual woman, and there was no way around it.

New thinking failed to fill the "conceptual vacuum" in economics, he says, and for many people "the old regime and the old intellectual constructs — compounded of Friedmanism, Greenspanism and Rubinism — continued to dominate by default".

Rehashing old intellectual property in the hope it sticks is no way to progress entertainment.

Still, the loyalty of many older intellectuals has not waned, even as evidence of the injustices and economic failure of the Castro regime has grown.

It took an axe to the 500-year-old intellectual roots from which that movement sprang.

And is talking to a small group of students and teachers sufficient to make the leap from plain-old intellectual to public intellectual?

Joe Biden, once he filled the second slot on a ticket led by a forty-six-year-old intellectual, remade himself as a tribune of enduring working-class values.

For a nightcap with the older intellectual set, head to the House Café (Asmali Mescit 9/1, 90-212-245-9515; www.thehousecafe.com.tr), order a bottle of Turkish Sarafin cabernet (75 lira) and make clever remarks about post-structuralism.

He means well, but his comment raises the troubling question, made explicit at one point by an older intellectual, of what will happen "if military dictatorship is replaced by student dictatorship".