Sentence examples for rational intellectual from inspiring English sources

"He clearly provided the rational, intellectual, programmatic side of the movement".

Our respondents are guided by subjective feelings more than they are by appeals to rational, intellectual and objective conceptions of right and wrong.

Clearly, the other girls have starved themselves to the point of collapse simply because they want to look pretty; I, meanwhile, have perfectly rational, intellectual reasons for doing exactly the same.

What Kinnear portrays marvellously is a deeply rational intellectual seeking to cope with a world that makes increasingly less sense: his only recourse is a despair that leads him to hole himself in what looks like a student bedsit and then a subversiveness that prompts him to hand out T-shirts showing a smiling villain.

Music doesn't come from just a rational, intellectual place.

""Our rational, intellectual mind does nothing to soothe the grieving heart".".

1. Some (e.g., MacIntyre 1967 153) have found this interest in producing a systematic account of existence incompatible with the basic tenor of existentialism, which is supposed to be anti-rational, anti-intellectual, a matter of passion, feeling, and literary rhetoric.

We hope, in this critically important time of change in China and the rest of the world today, to carry forward the moral character and rational spirit bestowed to intellectuals by our history.

"After 1989, intellectuals became "more moderate and rational," the article quotes Zhang Liping, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, as saying.

In my hyper-intellectual, hyper-rational, hyper-empirical, hyper-practical world, it is often easy to dismiss spirituality as a baseless, useless vestige of a simpler time; a kumbaya-version of the primordial ooze.

No rational actor writes a sloppy book accusing the entire universe of American intellectuals of sloppiness; it's an act of reputational suicide.