Sentence examples for practical intellectual from inspiring English sources

The smart people are the ones who know how to do it — this is the practical intellectual currency of our age.

The courses would be designed by wilderness experts, environmental scientists and artists and would be focused on improving our understanding of nature and its practical, intellectual and emotional importance in our lives.

Against the dominion of capitalist profiteers and the top-down cult of technocratic expertise, it aimed to put practical, intellectual and spiritual means of self-determination into the hands of the people.

The idea that drives Wilkerson's film is a powerful one, namely, that everyone's private life and family traditions are inseparable from politics, from ideology, from history — and that the unwillingness to do the practical, intellectual, and emotional work to find out the specifics of those connections and to face up to them is both a form of privilege and a perpetuation of injustice.

The decision to pare down books is provoking a practical intellectual debate among writers, publishers and archivists, and among its most provocative aspects is whether this sort of slice-and-dice Web publishing is an early step toward eliminating paper versions of some books.

Here was one of Crowley's favorite notions ("Nothing is true; everything is permitted,"), by way of Nietzsche, but Bangs brought it out of occult Thelemist incomprehensibility and into the question of discovering a practical intellectual justification for the satisfaction of every appetite.

The practical-intellectual task, one might interpret, was to help shape an 'enthusiasm for the Revolution' (Foucault, 1983b: 18) by bringing into question all that appears 'universal, necessary, obligatory' (Foucault, 2000b[1984a]: 315) without then crushing such enthusiasm under the weight of cold academic discussion.

Many American degrees emphasise the all-round cultivation of an individual's practical and intellectual skills, and knowledge.

They were seeking, by means of criticism, to clear space — practical and intellectual — for themselves in the world of filmmaking.

Can these conferences have a more practical arm less intellectual, more driven by action?

The character of Omar is key to this, for he alone realises the mismatch between their globalist ambition and the practical and intellectual limitations that shackle them.