Sentence examples for voracious intelligence from inspiring English sources

Despite her voracious intelligence, she is oddly superstitious and has sought guidance from astrologers and psychics.

He was the master of the High-Low (poker) and the high-low (life), an American original, which he didn't get from his voracious intelligence or savvy, but rather from his eye and ear and heart.

But in Morgan's hands it feels urgent in its ends and sincere in its faith in the power of literature — the resort of a voracious intelligence trying to do justice to an overwhelming world.

WITHOUT her glittering, voracious intelligence, Jenny, the 16-year-old protagonist of "An Education," would surely be condemned to a life as dreary and constrained as that of her parents.

But behind the drug- and alcohol-fueled machismo, the kingmaking and the crushing of rivals, are a feline watchfulness and a poetic sensibility that echoes Bellow's and Updike's prose rhythms along with their voracious, exuberant intelligence.

Ahrens was known as a gentle giant and a voracious reader, whose intelligence was equal to his size.

Mr. Cheney, known as a voracious consumer of intelligence, had read a Defense Intelligence Agency report suggesting that Niger had agreed to sell 500 tons a year of yellowcake uranium to Iraq, "probably" for use in a nuclear weapons program.

He has long been a voracious consumer of C.I.A. intelligence.

By contrast, President Lyndon Johnson had a voracious appetite for FBI political intelligence reports.

But former officials with knowledge of the system described an intelligence apparatus with both a voracious appetite and a growing ability to warehouse huge amounts of data.

Their teamwork and intelligence fascinate researchers, but throughout history, in folklore and fairy tales, wolves have been portrayed as voracious and formidable, cunning and sinister.