How To Use Intellect In A Sentence

Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
Such a level of monitoring is not only impracticable; it is incompatible with intellectual freedom.
Ignorance of Sarah Palin offends anyone who is educated, it's an insult to the intellectual world, american intelligence. Palin plans 'aggressive' fundraising push
This argument is untenable from an intellectual, moral and practical standpoint.

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A six-time Grammy nominee (talk about frustration), Elling has released six albums of audacious vocalese that trumpet his daring range and intellectualism.
All this makes him an apposite starting point for those on the far right in search of intellectual sugarcoating.
If we fail to develop emotional intelligence, or cannot control or restrain our emotions, we will lose our intellectual ability to think, reason and live rationally and intelligently. Dr T.P.Chia
8356A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect. Quotations
Open source software is often portrayed as a breakthrough in the free and open exchange of intellectual property, without precedent in the prevailing global capitalist mentality.
It is a matter of intellect, thought, indirect leadership, advice, and consensus-building.
After she'd gone he had drawn up a scorecard, ranging her qualities on one side - her intellectual gifts and vivid, racy conversation - and on the other all the vicious things she'd said.
As to the charge of ‘pseudo-intellectual revisionism’ I don't think this means much of anything beyond polysyllabic name-calling.
He is indeed a leading intellectual. Times, Sunday Times
Her arguments lacked intellectual rigour.
American football, on the other hand, is a game of intrigue, strategies and intellect.
Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor. Sigmund Freud
The task was beyond the intellectual grasp of some of the students.
I don't think by any means it's something to be done by star intellectuals or people from the top.
This is a highly recommended collection from a highly regarded intellect and one that will not disappoint.
When that course entails the social regulation of her sexual life in reproduction, the young woman's entry into intellectual life will necessarily be seen as transgressive.
However, physical appearance and intellect are insufficient foundation for effective long-lasting relationships.
But it can seem harder to quantify the value of intellectual property. Times, Sunday Times
He wrote in a highly individual, sometimes obscure, way that was in sharp contrast to the compressed intellectual style of T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and other contemporary poets.
With an intellectual's perfectionism, he cannot bring himself to face his desires in real life.
The teenage years cover a period in which young women and men mature physically, intellectually and emotionally.
a rapid sort of first "intellection," an error that made all departments of education so trivial, assumptive and dogmatic for centuries before Comenius, Basedow and Pestalozzi, has been banished everywhere save from moral and religious training, where it still persists in full force. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
Therefore, many scholars and latter day thinkers and intellects disagreed with him on a variety of issues.
He is one of a platoon of French intellectuals praising the game as a noble art compared with the selfish showmanship of football. Times, Sunday Times
While we can credit him for some degree of intellectual honesty in confronting the hypocrisies and irrationalities that govern so much of public life, religious and non-religious, Christopher Hitchens, in the end, could not offer a vision of true humanness because he dwelled in the cynical faculties of the mind without being adequately informed by the positive wisdom of the heart. Kabir Helminski: Christopher Hitchens is "Not Great"
Both industries are able to transfer intellectual property around the world, making it easier to justify recording profits in different countries. Times, Sunday Times
These projects are extremely important, and they raise profound questions regarding appropriate intellectual property policies.
Intellectual springs originally, and is increased subsequently, from teaching (for the most part that is), and needs therefore experience and time; whereas the Moral comes from custom, and so the Greek term denoting it is but a slight deflection from the term denoting custom in that language. Ethics
From time to time I forsook my own thoughts to follow him, and I followed in amaze, mastered for the moment by his remarkable intellect, under the spell of his passion, for he was preaching the passion of revolt. Chapter 26
Jonathan Lethem told me that when he first read "The Gift," he pictured its author as a kind of inapproachable seer, either long dead or soaring so high in the intellectual stratosphere as to be unreachable. RVABlogs
The Church, concludes the ecumenical patriarch, which by its educational activities instructed the people of God in revealed truth through the centuries, owes much to these schools of human thought, which contributed to man's intellectual and spiritual development, drawing him away from useless preservationism. Spero News
I found it intriguing that he used his sharp intellect and self-confidence for the wrong ends. Times, Sunday Times
In some ways, the self-taught writer could be called the Southern godmother of feminism, an autodidactic intellectual who carved out her singular role as a woman to be reckoned with on her on terms, in her own idiosyncratic ways, in the most hallowed and male-dominated coven in the country--the Halls of Congress--a generation before Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton emerged on the national stage. Jeff Biggers: "Office Holders Are Desperate": 180 Years Before HuffPo, Anne Royall's Wicked Blogs Held DC Accountable
Less intellect, more instinct is the way forward. Times, Sunday Times
On a more itemized basis, knowledge capital is intellectual and human capital, customer and supplier capital.
This has become a motif among net-critics, whose vanguard is Andrew Keen, who wrote a sloppy, intellectually dishonest book called The Cult of the Amateur that damns the Internet for much the same reasons (Clay Shirky wrote a great response to Keen). Boing Boing
He did not regard himself as her intellectual equal.
He inherited an uneasy alliance of liberals and social democrats and he knew that, intellectually, the former had to prevail. Times, Sunday Times
Here he sounds like the cautious elder, advising a sympathetic intellectualism that would open people to self-understanding.
Le Monde, read by some 2 million people every day, is one of the country's most influential newspapers with extensive contacts in the French establishment and an unwaveringly intellectual tone.
Critical seminars within the university may sometimes blur this distinction if they contain elements of genuine intellectual exchange.
I agree that design can be inferred from adaptation and also agree with nullasalus that the intellect is a supreme adaptive tool. Adaptationism
After eight years of a presidency that valued cronyism over brains (or even competence) and embraced an anti-intellectualism apotheosized by Sarah Palin, it's a godsend to have a president who puts a premium on merit. Steven G. Brant: Progressives Deserve to Be Worried About the Obama Administration
As a character study, I've often thought this president was the worst of two worlds: a sense of elite Eastern entitlement without the intellectual rigor and Texas bravado minus the bigheartedness. Jamie Stiehm: When Oliver Stone Makes a Movie, Bring It On
If we condemn Ahmadinejad and other patrons of terrorism, we must, with equal force, commend those Muslim intellectuals and religious leaders who have the courage to speak out publicly against the continued fomentation of Holocaust denial and other manifestations of Judaeophobia in their midst. Menachem Rosensaft: Finding Common Ground
No longer the torch-bearer of iconoclasm, the scourge of intellectual hypocrisy, I had become instead mere target practice for Banner Wavers Anonymous.
He's a Catholic conservative, with a distinctive intellectual pedigree.
Our intellectual culture demands that every idea or phenomenon be subjected to the unrelenting rigour of rationalism, or excesses of scientism.
But, in the end, it is a production in which raw passion is always subservient to intellectual cleverness.
Training the reflective function is the training of character, while the training of the purely physical side often, and the training of the intellectual side not uncommonly, have a distinctly deteriorative effect. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College
Nobody, unless he's an arrogant ninny, would ever say ‘I am an intellectual.’
What is certainly true is that he combined the finest intellect with a great humility. Times, Sunday Times
You do not require a great intellect to be happy. MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE
And, oh, the playacting, the tussles for territory, the acts of intellectual vaudeville that ensue. Times, Sunday Times
To the world, he was one of the brightest intellects of a very great intellectual era.
How, otherwise, is intellection possible if I can jointly believe that humans were once apes, but then again weren't?
The phrenological examiner also had to take into account the development of the ‘intellectual’ faculties relative to those that governed the ‘animal’ functions.
But I knew that he enjoyed the reputation as one of the keenest intellects and best Supreme Court advocates in the highly competitive Washington legal market.
But her unassuming demeanour masked a sharp intellect and powers of observation essential for the task of a secret agent. Times, Sunday Times
They instantly fall into certain companionable roles: the smartest one lends an educated perspective on a topic, the most outrageous one cracks the kind of jokes she wouldn’t dare to if a man were around, the least intellectually secure one feels safe enough to ask the most rudimentary questions. The Uses of Enchantment
Stupidity is closer to deliverance than intellect which innovates," is a phrase ascribed to a Mohammedan saint, and do not modern theologians report with enthusiasm, the unlettered condition of Jesus? Cosmic Consciousness
England stood forth as the centre of opposition against Philip, and under the unwilling leadership of Elizabeth entered on its epic period of heroism, was stimulated to that remarkable outburst of energy and intellect and power which we call the Elizabethan age. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
I came to intellectually accept the existence of this energy and often cited it when chatting with friends, but deep down I wondered whether it really existed and whether it might be simply a primitive word for the circulation of the blood, the tingling of nerves, the flow of lymph, or, more technically, the bioelectric energy of life stimulated by the charge potential that exists across cell membranes. Arthur Rosenfeld: Do You Feel the Energy of Life?
The physically awkward but intellectually gifted nebbish was foregrounded in film and television by Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, and Richard Dreyfuss, and later by Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Larry David. A Renegade History of the United States
She was a forceful intellectual unafraid to speak her mind.
In the United States the graduate school is the major arena of pedagogic activity and intellectual life.
These developments have also resulted in a political and intellectual crisis within the labour movement.
Is it time to review the laws on ownership of intellectual property and copyright?
QUOTATION: A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect. Quotations
Comedy and theatre designs are shaped by a happy combination of intellect and emotion. Times, Sunday Times
Like most of the terms that refer to major conceptual anchors of the western intellectual tradition, its origins may be traced to classical antiquity.
If unconditional, it converts to dogma, which is incompatible with intellectual honesty.
On the part of those on whom they operate, they are indicative either of improbity or intellectual weakness, or of a contempt for the understanding of those on whose minds they are indicative of intellectual weakness; and on the part of those in and by whom they are pretended to operate, they are indicative of improbity, viz., in the shape of insincerity. Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
He saw his work as an intellectual pursuit rather than something that he was involved with personally. Times, Sunday Times
Pan-Africanism, related to Negritude, is an intellectual movement borne in the era of Western modernism.
I'm a real intellectual-type guy, Tracy," James joked. "Oh, give me a break," Tracy moaned.
But to suggest that the conflict was over political rather than intellectual matters is to introduce a false antithesis.
Title and intellectual property rights are protected by the copyright laws and treaties.
Indeed, it’s intellectual property where the cachet of a craftsman is probably gaining in currency. A Lament For Hattori Hanzo | Heretical Ideas Magazine
This book is an amazing testimony to the power of the intellect and of steadfast faith in very troubled times.
I had not changed my intellectual belief as to my correspondent's behavior, but the impropriety of complicating an awkward business by placing myself in the wrong to the extent of losing my temper was so obvious that I blushed in recalling the bombastic periods of the torn composition. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
Why does the world minify our intelligence by depreciating our favorite article of diet, and express the ultimate extreme of mental pauperism by saying of him on whose intellect they would heap contempt, "He doesn't know beans"? Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
Were your brain appreciably larger, large enough to put the strain on your Princess Grace neck that your loppy preaxial digits put upon your wrists, you conceivably would possess a superior intellect. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
She totally keeps amazing me with her intuition, her perception and her intellect.
Kevin Drum relays without comment a letter from a conservative defending torture, an exercise in intellectual and moral contortionism that is revelatory, I think. 12/18/2007
The world as a realm of sensual pleasures is a mire we risk "wallowing" in, such that our spiritual/intellectual soul/vision can't break through. A Dark And Hidden God
The paper described the design of high-power intellectual charger for the lead-acid accumulator, including the research on charge method and charge power supply.
The magazine's tony mix of intellect and bohemian chic was the perfect home for Gladwell's innate quirkiness. His obsessive theorizing was no longer weird.
In a transforming instant, the est intellectual truth is seen to be that intellectual truth is of no account.
Intangible assets are a firm's nonphysical sources of value, such as its patents, brands, trademarks, copyrights, customer lists and other intellectual capital.
Reading about the fuggy alcoholic blurs always so lucidly expressed of experiences with the literary and intellectual luminaries of his day, one might wonder whether Hitchens is the dreamer or the dreamed, the purveyor of an intellectual fantasy or the product of other peoples' ideas. Ashley Rindsberg: On Hitchens
On the contrary, the opposite view is intellectually more compelling.
Here is the verbatim definition of schizophrenia from the Random House online dictionary - the medical definition: "a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations. Conservative: Dems looking 'schizophrenic' on reform
Maybe it is time that Taiwan's intellectuals step forward and launch another newspaper boycott - as was the case 10 years ago when the United Daily News injudiciously printed stories that appeared to be designed to stir up fear in Taiwan.
This sort of reckless intellectual adventurism is not surprising, coming as it does from someone who affected surprise that rising petrol prices have an effect on the economy.
The first potential stage is known as the _hylic_ or _potential intellect_. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
Today's intellectual pessimism and cultural disorientation distracts the human imagination from confronting challenges that lie ahead.
He has a reputation for rudeness and intellectual arrogance.
Like Bush, he is widely regarded as a philistine and intellectually limited man, whose pomposity and sense of self-importance are exceeded only by his provincialism.
It is clear that the Church Fathers became Christian intellectuals and theologians.
They are having an intellectual smackdown on the growth in income inequality in the United States over the past two decades and what to make of it.
His intellectual incoherence should not blind us to the populist possibilities he has stumbled upon.
Intellect Ltd. This Chinese postcard, from the 1980s, depicts ground-to-ground long-range missiles being wheeled through Beijing in a military parade. Greetings From Los Alamos!
Thus the rigorous intellectualism of serialism and the freedom of aleatoric processes are not paradoxical, but stem from the same mindset.
Whatever Lewis lacked in intellect, he compensated with hard work, observation, patience, perfectionism, rote learning, and attention to detail.
They argued that the law was unconstitutional as it stripped them of their intellectual property rights without compensation. Times, Sunday Times
An evening at the Magpie and Crown in Brentford was certainly lively, intellectually stimulating and at times hysterically funny; and I think their cask-conditioned scrumpy is probably at least twice the advertised strength... A busy weekend...
You have a genius intellect and an awesome sense of humor.
Start a school of robotics and a business incubator to go with it, to not only train a cadre of technology workers, but to sell the intellectual property and create the seeds of a home grown tech industry.
In fact, Albert Einstein, the very poster boy of intellectualism, intensely disliked school.
It seems to be reacting against the conventional attitudes of intellectuals at least those raised in the Western tradition.
Section I of Part II presents three principles of civil protection of intellectual property rights in franchise, including the principle of balance of interests which is the most basic one.
The combination of intellectual integrity and a twinkle in the eye inspired affection as well as respect. Times, Sunday Times
He rallied an amazingly varied collection of personalities to his cause in the last month, ranging from hard-faced businessmen to radical artists and intellectuals.
In an Oct. 13 meeting with Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Obama said: ` ` Tell Raúl police Saturday detained 28 members of a far-right party who tried to disrupt an event held by a rival far-right tanker Monday farther out at sea than any previous assault, suggesting that pirate capabilities are growing as they increase intellectual Francisco Ayala, seen in this March 9, 2006 file photo during an interview with The Associated Press, in Spanish trawler Tuesday, and a self-proclaimed pirate said the hostage-takers were paid $3.3 million in ransom. WN.com - Articles related to Spanish PM vows sweeping reforms to boost economy
Without continued learning, graduates will lose their intellectual vitality.
The American scientist was to be prized not just for intellectual prowess, but technical facility.
Wilson you know absolutely nothing about the environmental movement, so instead you peddle in simplistic lies, instead of educating yourself and debating them on any sort of intellectual level. Can We Drop The Global Warming Pretense Now? Please? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
For the intellectuals and the urban lower middle class, the new situation was a rude awakening of disillusionment and broken promises.
Since that remote day Gladstone has been four times Premier; has delivered numberless speeches of the highest order of excellence; has published a multitude of pamphlets and volumes which attest consummate intellectual gifts, and has been a great force in English statesmanship and scholarship through an exceptionally long life and almost to the very close of it. The Grand Old Man
The university rector is asked to form a team of Papuan intellectuals to start the process.
Spurlock possessed a vigorous intellect, critical, disquisitional, creative; and yet he saw nothing remarkable in the girl's readiness to marry him! The Ragged Edge
The short term savings from offshoring or onshoring are pocket change relative to losing the value of the intellectual property.
Over the years I have read with avidity various intellectual disputes in The New York Review of Books and other literary journals.
You don't have to be an egghead to read philosophy, you can even read it on the conveyer belt at your local gym, thus combining your physical and intellectual work-outs and saving valuable time.
Yet he himself was a middle-class intellectual who disdained the working class and sequestered himself for decades inside the British Library in lieu of direct observation of the conditions he railed against.
Isn't it about time a government made the theft of intellectual property a white-collar crime? Times, Sunday Times
It's just terrific when the intellectuals stick up their tails.
By economizing on the need for agreement, you're economizing on the need for consensus and the need for gatekeepers and tastemakers, roles intellectuals have traditionally filled.
Not least, it is subversive of the intellectual foundation of liberal democratic society. Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education
As a boy, Freud was intellectually precocious and an extremely hard worker.
Feeling reasonably guilty for my lack of input in our annual dissection, I decided I needed some intellectual nutrition to atone for my sins.
As a general rule, however, military intellectuals tend to face mandatory retirement as lieutenant colonels or colonels, just as they are achieving full intellectual maturity.
Establishment pomposities with a barb, are grossly underestimating his talent, intellect and capacity for sheer graft. Times, Sunday Times
If you ponder or intellectualize, the film slows down.
But modern culture is now proving to be vulnerable on two counts, one social, one intellectual.
The non-intellectual wing of the Christian Right Community has committed a sacrilege and blasphemy, (to say nothing of the secular crime of high treason), because they have accepted the fiction of a cynical team of writers, who depict the god they describe as a homicidal, Demonic, maniac, and touted these despicable properties as "holiness," and used that as an excuse to support and urge the slaughter of their chosen Muslim fantasy enemies. THE SHAMELESS END-DAYS FICTIONAL REPLACEMENT FOR REVELATION.
The fact that he was willing to do damage to the country with useless concessions to a party that has proven itself a moral and intellectual failure to them on his side was extremely disturbing, and the fact that he succeeded not at all in unsurprising. Matthew Yglesias » Yglesias on Maddow
But the French like nothing better than endless discussions and over-intellectualizing, so Allen's cinematic navel-gazing never lost its luster here -- even as his films became stale and a chunk of his American audience drifted away. Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Other Side of Midnight in Paris
'Tis the novelty of the experiment which makes impressions on their conceptive, cogitative faculties; that do not previse the facility of the operation adequately, with a subact and sedate intellection, associated with diligent and congruous study. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
Intellectual deterioration leads to political decay.
Juxtaposing criminal law and legal theory offers a number of intellectual enquiries.
By the time of Montagu's death in 1800, any female intellectual might be labelled a bluestocking, whether or not she could claim a link to the original circle. Archive 2008-03-01
And when you think back to your aunts and your great-aunts and the story of your family, can you remember stories of men who had intellectual disability?
The intellectual stimulus behind this project may have been the tradition of geographical study at Magdalen Hall.
(Ratio and intellectus recall in some ways dianoia and noesis in Plato's famous image of the divided line.) Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa]
That disagreement, however, must be presented in an intellectually responsible and respectful manner.
He is an intellectual multilinguist and an experienced negotiator between diverse ethnic groupings. cedric j wrote: The Economist: Correspondent's diary
What would you say to a parent that's contemplating having their intellectually disabled child sterilised?
Unfounded generalisations and unproven claims are common in intellectual pursuits.
Platonism accomplishes the intellectual love of God through the mathematical mediation; Christianity renders this intellectual love flesh in the incarnation.
Under such intellectual pressures captains need a degree in mathematics to steer their teams towards winning totals or targets.
He had an inquiring intellect, a voracious appetite for science and a direct involvement in the operation of government. Times, Sunday Times
No problem acknowledging also that among the many different traditions, practices and stories that have fused and sometimes not even touched and just hung around together in what we now call Hinduism, there is room, and maybe even some intellectual and spiritual value in some contexts, for what is still quite crudely called the "phallic" perspective. Vamsee Juluri: Lord Shiva And The Economist: A New Low For Journalism
That's not all. The Iraqi newspaper Al-Umma al-Iraqiyya carried an open letter signed by 400 Iraqi intellectuals, both Kurdish and Arab, defending Alusi.
Fuzzy wriggled himself into an ingratiatory attitude and essayed the idiotic smile and blattering small talk that is supposed to charm the budding intellect of the young. Strictly business: more stories of the four million
The strength and the weakness were thus two sides of the same coin minted by Comte's sheer energy and persistence (or obstinacy, according to taste) which derived, in turn, from the strength of his motivation: the urgency of the social problem as he saw it; the need for a complete intellectual system as the means of solving it; and his conception of his own messianic mission. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Finally, she lists the intellectual pursuit model, which is self-directed and self-motivated by intellectual curiosity.
She was too much of an intellectual to find popular films interesting.
It is a fine example of the so-called prodigy buildings built by the richest and most intellectually advanced men.
He claimed the party had become 'anti-immigrant, anti-intellectual and racist'. The Sun
Hard-boiled Dreams of the World, winner of the cerebral, intellectually appealing, mentally engrossing and reasonably highbrowed Thinking Blogger Award! Thinking Blogger Awards
The plowman poet spoke not only to his fellow commoners but also the intellectuals of Edinburgh and many Scottish lords of the manors. Robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
His modesty and courtesy concealed brilliant intellect; this combination worked wonders. Times, Sunday Times
But laypersons should not hesitate to involve themselves in the intellectual apostolate.
Being proud and genteel New Englanders, the salon-goers covered up their patricide with flattery, duly noting Edwards's considerable intellect and pious reputation.
His writing has been dismissed as mere intellectual posturing.
On one hand, aesthetic Physic falls back into the equivoke of the theory of artistic and literary classes, by attempting to determine aesthetically the abstractions of our intellect; on the other, fails to recognize, as we said, the true formation of so-called natural beauty; for which the question as to whether some given individual animal, flower, or man be beautiful or ugly, is altogether excluded. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
The word 'coward' is a strong one, but the reality is that because we have such wildly different perspectives on why racial disparities exist, and because they continue to exist long after explicit racism has been outlawed, discussion of racial issues requires a high degree of tolerance for conflict, both intellectual and emotional. Guest Post:: It Takes a Nation of Cowards to Prove Eric Holder Right
The new University of California campus and the Salk Institute were opening for business, with shipments of intellectuals arriving daily.
Because he was literate and articulate, he showed a bitter contempt for the self-appointed intellectuals of the inter-war years.
The intellectual and moral potential of the world's culture must be put at the service of politics.
Without a well-educated populace we are a poor and intellectually bankrupt society.
Those who feel that obvious displays of intellectual prowess involving references to archaeology, pataphysics and other arcana have no place on a rock record may have trouble with this sort of thing.
Unfortunately for him it is not entirely populated by dorks, and the same people that can succeed in sport can also have sharp intellect.
She underwent an intellectual crisis, she says, discovering that these strategies, which she now calls faddish trends, were undermining public education. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Trying to keep the peace is the sage Andy, whose cool intellectualizing goes from being an annoying trait to an obvious shield for his own emotional issues.
Man, by reason of his intellect, is capable of greatest evil.
Erit igitur divinarum scripturarum solertissimus indagator, qui primo totas legerit, notasque habuerit, etsi non dum intellectu, jam tamen lectione, duntaxat eas quæ appellantur canonicæ. The Canon of the Old and New Testaments Ascertained, or The Bible Complete without the Apocrypha and Unwritten Traditions.
It sounded a little dry for my liking — I was kind of imagining the sort of intellectualist discourse that made the Mundane SF movement sound awfully stuffy, with their pshawing at pulp “follies”. Ethics and Enthusiasm
Other intellectuals and artists have joined the campaign. Times, Sunday Times
Even when carrying out needful tasks, do not let your intellect be idle but keep it meditating inwardly and praying.
Furthermore he argues that the idea of proportion cannot be extended to moral and intellectual beauty.
Havs, JB is totally soft - centred and intellectual or else why would he put up with all of the free styling on his roof top? Cheeseburger Gothic » God bless you, big insurance company.
Fellows will be invited to participate fully in the law school's rich intellectual life, including faculty workshops, colloquia and conferences.
Books are the spiritual and intellectual food of the mind, and reading is a great enjoyment for those who desire to improve their mental power. Dr T.P.Chia
I feel torn between two conflicting impulses - my desire to be taken seriously as an intellectual, and my desire to share with others the absurd things that delight me.
A morning newspaper should be a city's crown of glory, an intellectual Aurora ushering in the new-born day; but in Houston's case her chief newspaper is a sorrow's crown of sorrow, her inexpungeable badge of shame. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. Christopher Hitchens
Width often leads to superficiality and depth may produce a blinkered approach and an intellectual treadmill.
The love of system, of interconnection, which is perhaps the inmost essence of the intellectual impulse, can find free play in mathematics as nowhere else. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
It appears that a single thing, which must be imagined as some sort of interval (intervallum) existing between two things, cannot exist in extramental reality, but only in the intellect. Medieval Theories of Relations
However, intellectuals can alter the course of unnatural disasters such as government.
The Chinese group said it had full proprietary intellectual property rights. Times, Sunday Times
I could intellectualise, of course I could, tracing influences and references and justifications.

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