Sentence examples for refined intellect from inspiring English sources

His memoir, Dreams From My Father, was quickened by the drama of the self-invented man from nowhere – the passionate striving, eloquent self-doubt and ambivalence that western literature, from Stendhal to Naipaul, has trained us to identify with a refined intellect and soul.

Having praised Tynan as a drama critic and a journalist, Wheatcroft writes, "The truth is that, though terrifically smart and funny, Tynan was in no sense intellectual," which tends to suggest that brilliant drama criticism can be written without the aid of a refined, first-class intellect.

Along with Wolfe's invincible intellect and refined sensibilities, this temper secures him an honored place among cranky geniuses like Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, John Dickson Carr's Dr. Gideon Fell, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse.

However, he merely states this goal; he has no theory of the intellect, no refined or even coarse epistemology.

This collection of ruminations on cuisine and cookery offers the perspective of a refined palate wed to a lively intellect.

Needing more time to herself, she refurbishes the Parisian pied-à-terre that she had planned to sell, and, in the city, spends time with Octave, a writer played by the theatrical Fabrice Luchini, whose hyper-refined diction and magisterial gestures capture to perfection the aestheticizing intellect.

While Avicenna holds that spontaneous generation depends upon ever more refined mixtures of elementary qualities which trigger the emanation of forms from the active intellect, the giver of forms (The Healing: Meteorology II.6), Averroes explains it with the influence of certain celestial constellations which actualize potential forms in water or earth.

A trim man noted for his dapper attire, keen intellect and somewhat remote demeanor, Mr. White was seen by supporters as an iconoclast with refined sensibilities and by detractors as an autocrat with expensive tastes.

You have the intellect.

Hate reason and intellect.

The man represents intellect.