Sentence examples for public intelligence from inspiring English sources

Contemporaries were scarcely impressed – "a facetious experiment upon public intelligence" suggested one – and even now it is hard to decide whether it is, or is not, absolutely horrid.

American officials said Wednesday there was no "smoking gun" that directly links President Bashar al-Assad to the attack, and they tried to lower expectations about the public intelligence presentation.

In one of his most controversial works – it was called "an insult on the public intelligence" by one writer – Brown shows the colours visible in shadows, an innovation usually credited to the French impressionists.

The chosen fix focused on intelligence, partly because intelligence historically has served as a scapegoat for failure, and partly because, given how the Iraq war was sold to the public, intelligence was in particular disfavour in the years following 9/11.

Along with James Fallows, who wrote about the purchase yesterday at the Atlantic, I would like to think that this marks "the beginning of a phase in which this Gilded Age's major beneficiaries re-invest in the infrastructure of our public intelligence".

We will still need spies and secrecy, but improved use of public intelligence will allow them to focus more narrowly.

But I underestimated the smirking contempt of the tax cutters for the public's intelligence.

It demeans the public's intelligence, never mind that the Anti-Defamation League says it demeans the Holocaust.

But Rogelio Moreno Díaz responded in his acerbic blog, Bubusópia, that this was "the final insult to the public's intelligence".

Sir Richard, who retired in 2004 and rarely speaks in public, said "intelligence was expected to carry too much weight" in the formulation of policy.

But to do so with such little curatorial rigor, no intellectual substance or any wider scholarly purpose seems to me like an insult to the public's intelligence.