Sentence examples for restless intellectual from inspiring English sources
The setting is cramped and claustrophobic-a place of focus and concentration, intense thought and restless intellectual connection-making.
He could often be found hanging out at the Music Box, talking politics in the Excelsior and jamming at the Chester". His friend Tony Jezzard of the group Reservoir Cats described Peter as "a restless intellectual and musical spirit, sometimes challenging but always generous with his time and opinions.
Over the past two months, as he has tried to clarify his stance, Mr. Mbeki has painted a self-portrait of a restless intellectual, a meticulous hands-on manager who rarely delegates decisions, a chief executive who challenges convention, even when advisers suggest otherwise.
This is the sort of thing that clearly energizes Brown, taking any and all questions, the restless intellectual in him occasionally baffling to some and, on occasion, all.
He expanded the institution out of recognition with the application of his restless energy, intellectual rigour, exceptional contacts and many hours in committee work which is essential but all too often under-appreciated in public life.
But the crucible of all these was his own mercurial, restless personality and intellectual brilliance, backed by a historian's sense of history and the born journalist's flair for being in the wrong place at the right time.
The title was bestowed in recognition of her first (and, at the time, her only) feature film, "La Pointe Courte," whose modest means and restless aesthetic and intellectual ambitions anticipated the breakout films of François Truffaut, Mr. Godard and the rest by a good half-decade.
The young Popper was something of an intellectual loner, restless, arrogant and apt to take offense.
The noirish atmosphere, the convergence of storytelling and vigorous literary criticism, the underground cliques of poets and intellectuals, the restless exiles — all this is a blueprint for the kind of fiction that dominated the Latin American scene in later years, the sort of writing that found its way to foreign readers through the works of Roberto Bolaño.
Exactly one hundred years ago, a restless band of European intellectuals published the Futurist Manifesto, which affirmed "that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.
Yet the intellectual Rattle remained restless and in 1980 he swerved into an academic year, reading English literature at St Anne's, Oxford, explaining: "I'd never been to university and I wanted to".
