Sentence examples for sheer intellect from inspiring English sources

But consulting is more than sheer intellect and access to data and precedent.

In sheer intellect, he can match Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, whom Mr Steinbrück will challenge in next year's parliamentary election.

"He was not so much thinking up some original way of looking at a subject but solving extremely hard technical problems that at the time only he could solve, by sheer intellect and force of will," Phillip Griffiths, a geometer and a former director of the Institute for Advanced Study, said.

Mania.com celebrated his "sheer intellect", calling him "one of the most fascinating characters in the series" and "one of the few truly brilliant fighters in shōnen anime".

The sheer rugby intellect of New Zealand and Australia has also shone through repeatedly, perfectly illustrated by Conrad Smith's unselfish line and educated pass which created the space for his side's opening try by Nehe Milner-Skudder.

Like Lenin, Gates leads by sheer force of intellect.

After all, charisma is to some extent irreducible; in the classroom a scholar can inspire by sheer force of intellect and personality, an effect to which bureaucratic reports seldom do justice.

Con! shouts this film, con! con! con!, flapping its arms in distress at sheer impoverishment of intellect detectable in so many people, and the casual, unthinking insult this represents to the rest of us.

Galileo admired those who believed in the sun-centred system before the advent of the telescope: "They have by sheer force of intellect done such violence to their own senses as to prefer what reason told them over that which sense experience plainly showed them to be the case".

The ambiguity, intensity and range of feelings/perspectives these particular patrons seemed able to process, tolerate and indeed share convincingly with others by sheer dint of intellect -- played a real role in seeding/abetting the general tolerance for "difference" first in cognoscenti and then in a broader culture.

His fame, the sheer force of his intellect and musicianship.