Sentence examples for outstanding intellectual from inspiring English sources

An outstanding intellectual, he drew his main support from the peasants.

The outstanding intellectual contribution of the period was the novel, whose development was spurred by increases in literacy and in the demand for reading materials.

Spinoza applied this category to the prophets, whom he described as possessing vivid imaginations but as not necessarily having outstanding intellectual capacities.

His father, Constantijn Huygens, a diplomat, Latinist, and poet, was the friend and correspondent of many outstanding intellectual figures of the day, including the scientist and philosopher René Descartes.

All such efforts came to an end in the 1930s when the purges instigated by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and carried out locally by Russian and Turkmen communists destroyed this small core of outstanding intellectual leaders, including Qulmuhammed-oghli.

Mr. Franks said he did not know enough about Mr. Scalia at the time of his confirmation to say how he would have voted, but added, "Justice Scalia has made an outstanding intellectual contribution to the court".

In Ottoman Turkey, Taşköprüzade (died 1560) compiled a historical survey of outstanding Turkish intellectuals in Arabic.

One of a generation of outstanding Zambian intellectuals, he was consistent and independent in his views, whoever was in power.

When you cut through the language, the manifesto is a call for the empowerment of the Afghan people against corrupt élites: "Outstanding individuals, intellectuals, women, young people, producers of culture, workers, and other parts of society wish for change, and we want to respond to this wish".

Many are outstanding public intellectuals, as well as wonderful teachers.

It should be reserved for acts of extreme courage, unpaid community service and for outstanding humanitarian, scientific, intellectual, artistic or sporting achievement.