Sentence examples for pretty intellectual from inspiring English sources

He was a pretty intellectual guy, and I'm O.K.

He was pretty intellectual - a scholar who liked literature and painting.

By Philly standards, this was pretty intellectual trash talk, but it had to be unnerving nonetheless.

It is, I remark, all pitched at a pretty high intellectual level.

"She was social and pretty, bright and intellectual.

As with his music, he writes a pretty abstract and intellectual pitch.

He wrote "The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought, How They Can Be Won," a short, zippy attack on China for pretty much everything — intellectual-property theft, pollution, prison labor.

Either way, the fact that the Gaia hypothesis is now built into real research programmes suggests that old-fashioned disciplines, like the Earth itself, may be pretty adaptable environments for intellectual life.

Nonetheless, if you place a collected volume of Spider-Man or X-Men comics on a prominent shelf -- and especially alongside your titans of literature -- chances are pretty good a visiting intellectual will arch an eyebrow and prod you into defending that choice of reading matter.

The first one is pretty easy: the anti-intellectual, knee-jerk reaction to erudition, show-off or otherwise.

"To a Wall Streeter, intellectuals are pretty cheap," said Walter Russell Mead, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of "God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World".