Beneath the stylish prose and the incisive, fluent engagement with subjects of worldly intellectual talk lie subterranean debts that obliquely reveal other preoccupations.
Or maybe it will be some high minded worldly intellectual type that will say something like "Don't you read Vice Magazine?...African warlords and stuff" Nay, my brothers and sisters, nay.
The frenzied cold-war pursuit of other-worldly communist intellectuals, whom, it was feared, would somehow facilitate a Soviet takeover, is likewise a rich comedy seam, not least because that takeover never came.
The MoS editorial accepted Winter's portrayal of Miliband as an other-worldly Hampstead intellectual who is accident-prone, clumsy and awkward with children.
Certain elements in the Jesuit order, always the most intellectual, worldly, and militant, are reportedly leading a Vatican Left Wing.
The man — stalwart, imposing, and impassioned — pursues, and the woman — intellectual yet worldly and flirtatious — resists.
Practical learning, Nunn believed, laid the foundation for intellectual and worldly accomplishment, and he wanted his employees to be more than "mere automatons or commercial slaves".
A sophisticated intellectual, a worldly and urbane woman -- in contrast to the increasingly pious Katya -- Stravinsky's mistress (and after Katya's death, his second wife) went almost everywhere with the master.
"Infinite Line" presents a more nuanced, intellectual and worldly artist: one who talks about space like an architect and vision like an ophthalmologist, who rhapsodizes about the shifting perspective in Chinese painting and makes her own Asian-inspired drawings on long scrolls of paper.
