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  • Einstein's intellectual achievements and originality have made the word Einstein synonymous with genius.
  • In the end, I chose four intellectual movements from the nineteenth century and examined how they had struggled with the question of family obligation.   (source)
    intellectual = relating to intelligent consideration of ideas
  • I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.   (source)
    intellectual = intelligent
  • It was a place of energy and creativity and intellectual stimulation the likes of which we'd never seen.   (source)
    intellectual = relating to intelligent consideration of ideas
  • Louie found that the raft offered an unlikely intellectual refuge. He had never recognized how noisy the civilized world was.   (source)
    intellectual = intelligent thought
  • Savannah preferred hunting, fishing, and going to parties over intellectual pursuits; in Charleston it was the other way around.   (source)
    intellectual = intelligent consideration of ideas
  • Only Piggy could have the intellectual daring to suggest moving the fire from the mountain.   (source)
    intellectual = relating to intelligent consideration of ideas
  • Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.   (source)
    intellectual = related to education and intelligence
  • HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit: Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated.   (source)
    intellectual = relating to intelligent consideration of ideas
  • In his view an intellectually creative person must do physical labour in order to assess his own capabilities properly, and so he did his quota of work, although it interrupted his studies.   (source)
    intellectually = in a manner that relates to intelligence
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  • She is not as pretty as her sister-in-law, but her lean, almost intellectual face has a handsomeness of its own.   (source)
    intellectual = intelligent-looking
  • Intellectually there is very little wrong with you.   (source)
    intellectually = in matters related to intelligence
  • You can't really do any useful intellectual conditioning till the foetuses have lost their tails.   (source)
    intellectual = related to intelligence
  • He had simply lost sight of her and her part in the affair in his intellectual effort.   (source)
    intellectual = intelligent consideration of ideas
  • It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.   (source)
    intellectual = relating to intelligence and education
  • These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.   (source)
    intellectual = related to intelligence
  • An intellectually disabled black woman living in Choctaw County Alabama, Ms.†   (source)
  • They saw the pursuit of money as intellectually uninteresting, suited only to shopkeepers.†   (source)
  • The Eastmans decided that Noah was intellectually exhausted; the family would spend that Christmas holiday on some recuperative beach in the Caribbean.†   (source)
  • If only he could be like that — intellectually honourable.†   (source)
  • It means that if you take two intellectually equivalent fourth graders with birthdays at opposite ends of the cutoff date, the older student could score in the eightieth percentile, while the younger one could score in the sixty-eighth percentile.†   (source)
  • First I have to be more intellectually developed, like my genius of a sister.†   (source)
  • If Root was as intellectually challenged as he looked, it was quite possible the entire scheme would collapse around his ears.†   (source)
  • Intellectually I know that they won't hurt us.†   (source)
  • The offensive line had the most intellectually demanding jobs on the field, apart from the quarterback.†   (source)
  • He was a loner and intellectually intolerant.†   (source)
  • Like T. S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece The Waste Land, it presents a society that has been rendered barren—spiritually, morally, intellectually, and sexually—by the war.†   (source)
  • Mae knew, intellectually, that the only reason she was in Francis's room was that everyone else in her life had, for the time being, abandoned her.†   (source)
  • In East L.A.'s Garfield High, Chicano students established an after-school study circle to become intellectually engaged and politically active based on what they learned from the book.†   (source)
  • And women, don't you know, are emotionally, morally, and intellectually immature.†   (source)
  • But intellectually ….†   (source)
  • I never expected to be intellectually challenged at every turn, but the guy's living by his wits and I don't have an answer for him.†   (source)
  • As an A student I could stand up intellectually with the best.†   (source)
  • Intellectually, I know I'll be able to be myself …. after a while.†   (source)
  • To see shapes and forms is to intellectualize.†   (source)
  • That's why they were so odd about it; for them, sex was for when you wanted babies, and even though they knew, intellectually, that we couldn't have babies, they still felt uneasy about us doing it because deep down they couldn't quite believe we wouldn't end up with babies.†   (source)
  • Farmer felt intellectually torn.†   (source)
  • Hod, Joe, Jesse, travelers straying through a world where last names were seldom exchanged, these had been his "buddies"-never anyone like Willie-Jay, who was in Perry's opinion, "way above average intellectually, perceptive as a well-trained psychologist."†   (source)
  • Breast feeding, for example, is the only way to guarantee a healthy and intellectually advanced child—unless bottle feeding is the answer.†   (source)
  • I knew intellectually that she had a support system out there, but a great deal of the weight of helping me get through prison was clearly falling on her shoulders.†   (source)
  • Emotionally, yes, intellectually, no. SAM.†   (source)
  • Those experiences had shown her that he would be easy to defeat, even if, intellectually, she might know better.†   (source)
  • We're not so chi chi here, we're not so intellectually chic that we can't test a student face-to-face.†   (source)
  • Tererai Trent in front of the hut in which she was born, in Zimbabwe (Tererai Trent) Girls in poor countries are particularly undernourished, physically and intellectually.†   (source)
  • For years, Mortenson had known, intellectually, that the word "Muslim" means, literally, "to submit."†   (source)
  • It was intellectually challenging, but he felt detached from the real world.†   (source)
  • But then, in the midst of the narratives I read, I lost the will to intellectualize it.†   (source)
  • He can't step away from it, can't intellectualize it, because it's still too close, too visceral.†   (source)
  • She wanted someone who would offer to rub her feet after a long day at the library, but also challenge her intellectually.†   (source)
  • Intellectually, he's trapped.†   (source)
  • At age thirty-seven, he was at his professional prime but, unlike Howe, a man with no bad habits or inclinations to self-indulgence, and if not as intellectually gifted as Clinton, he had no peevish or contrary side.†   (source)
  • "Let me intellectualize," said Krupkin.†   (source)
  • Intellectually, he could accept that the dead were gone forever.†   (source)
  • She, on the other hand, curled up like a potato bug as soon as the floor approached, and the fact that she intellectually knew she wasn't going to hit it didn't seem to make any difference.†   (source)
  • This I believe: that it is intellectually easier to credit a divine intelligence than to submit dumbly to felicitous congeries about nature.†   (source)
  • The goal of this unpleasant exercise was to determine whether Dr. Natalie Mizrahi, formerly of Marseilles, lately of Rehavia in West Jerusalem, was temperamentally, intellectually, and politically suited for the job they had in mind.†   (source)
  • I can intellectualize it, but I don't understand it.†   (source)
  • In the nineteen forties, when I was the eldest child of an ever-growing family in rural Co. Derry, we crowded together in the three rooms of a traditional thatched farmstead and lived a kind of den-life which was more or less emotionally and intellectually proofed against the outside world.†   (source)
  • They saw us as "different" from themselves in fundamental ways: we were irresponsible; we were different in our sexual morals; we were intellectually limited; we had a God-given sense of rhythm; we were lazy and happy-go-lucky; we loved watermelon and fried chicken.†   (source)
  • Emotionally and intellectually he was the romantic inheritor of the Germanic culture of another century, of a time irreparably gone and fallen away, and thus he had no inkling of how impossible it would be to try to ingratiate himself in his antiquated costumery within the corridors of this stainless-steel, jackbooted, mammoth modern power, the first technocratic state, with its Regulierungen and Gesetzverordnungen, its electrified filing-card systems and classification procedures, its…†   (source)
  • But intellectually, of course, not in my class.†   (source)
  • Intellectually, he was a thoroughbred.†   (source)
  • The "superior people" I mentioned, then, are not superior intellectually but superior by cultural gift: they are the accidental product of the right homes.†   (source)
  • He is judged, and if he has done well, observing the rules and restrictions of his caste, paying the proper observances to Heaven, advancing himself intellectually and morally, then this man will be incarnated into a higher caste, eventually achieving godhood itself and coming to dwell here in the City.†   (source)
  • We need intellectually honest men like Senator Taft.†   (source)
  • It was more difficult than accepting an intellectual discipline.   (source)
  • They thought that hypnopaedia could be made an instrument of intellectual education …   (source)
    intellectual = intelligence
  • In an intellectual way, Syme was venomously orthodox.   (source)
    intellectual = related to education or intelligent thought
  • His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities.   (source)
    intellectual = intelligence
  • And upon no other intellectual basis could the dominion of the Party be made permanent.   (source)
    intellectual = intelligent
  • "Adults intellectually and during working hours," he went on.   (source)
    intellectually = with regard to intelligence
  • It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant.   (source)
    intellectual = appealing to intelligence
  • They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect.   (source)
    intellectual = intelligent consideration of ideas
  • But that was merely an intellectual decision, taken because he knew that he ought to take it.   (source)
    intellectual = requiring or appealing to intelligence
  • What most oppressed him was the consciousness of his own intellectual inferiority.   (source)
    intellectual = possession of intelligence
  • For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently–though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils.   (source)
    intellectually = in a manner related to intelligence (in this case, required for it)
  • A sort of intellectual warmth, the joy of the pedant who has found out some useless fact, shone through the dirt and scrubby hair.   (source)
    intellectual = related to intelligence
  • He seemed to have lost the power of intellectual effort, now that the stimulus of pain had been removed.   (source)
    intellectual = use of intelligence
  • The arithmetical problems raised, for instance, by such a statement as 'two and two make five' were beyond his intellectual grasp.   (source)
    intellectual = requiring intelligence
  • The older generation had mostly been wiped out in the great purges of the fifties and sixties, and the few who survived had long ago been terrified into complete intellectual surrender.   (source)
    intellectual = relating to intelligent consideration of ideas
  • It was one of those dreams which, while retaining the characteristic dream scenery, are a continuation of one's intellectual life, and in which one becomes aware of facts and ideas which still seem new and valuable after one is awake.   (source)
    intellectual = intelligent thought
  • His spectacles, his gentle, fussy movements, and the fact that he was wearing an aged jacket of black velvet, gave him a vague air of intellectuality, as though he had been some kind of literary man, or perhaps a musician.   (source)
    intellectuality = related to intelligence or education
  • ...dull men are usually afraid of her cleverness and intellectual men are usually afraid of her beauty.   (source)
    intellectual = intelligent
  • If I may state my intellectual position I am, so far as concerns things purely terrestrial, somewhat in the position which Enoch occupied spiritually!   (source)
    intellectual = intelligent consideration of ideas
  • These intellectual people—   (source)
    intellectual = interested in rational (in contrast to emotional) thought
  • It is wonderful, however, what intellectual recuperative power lunatics have, for within a few minutes he stood up quite calmly and looked around him.   (source)
    intellectual = related to intelligence
  • His intellectual content seemed to submit passively to it, and it fitted like a glove everything that had ever preceded it in his life.   (source)
    intellectual = intelligent thought
  • I had a growing conviction that this sudden change of his entire intellectual method was but yet another phase of his madness, and so determined to let him go on a little longer, knowing from experience that he would, like all lunatics, give himself away in the end.   (source)
    intellectual = intelligent thought process
  • What I'd see of it, lost in a clerkship, for the next and best ten years of my life would have the intellectual content of an industrial movie.   (source)
    intellectual = intelligent thought
  • Your last, that dissertation on architecture, was perfectly awful— so "highbrow" that I picture you living in an intellectual and emotional vacuum;   (source)
    intellectual = rational
  • The summer was over, but he had spent the days in watching Eleanor, a graceful, facile Manfred, build herself intellectual and imaginative pyramids while she revelled in the artificialities of the temperamental teens and they wrote poetry at the dinner-table.   (source)
    intellectual = rational (rather than emotional)
  • When she had first returned to her country there had been a pagan, Swinburnian young man in Asheville, for whose passionate kisses and unsentimental conversations she had taken a decided penchant—they had discussed the matter pro and con with an intellectual romancing quite devoid of sappiness.   (source)
    intellectual = rational (in contrast to emotional)
  • It makes wealthy men the keepers of the world's intellectual conscience and, of course, a man who has money under one set of social institutions quite naturally can't risk his family's happiness by letting the clamor for another appear in his newspaper.   (source)
    intellectual = relating to intelligent consideration of ideas
  • There was, for example, Thornton Hancock, respected by half the intellectual world as an authority on life, a man who had verified and believed the code he lived by, an educator of educators, an adviser to Presidents—yet Amory knew that this man had, in his heart, leaned on the priest of another religion.   (source)
    intellectual = highly educated
  • …and both Tom and Amory had outgrown the passion for dancing with mid-Western or New Jersey debbies at the Club-de-Vingt (surnamed the "Club de Gink") or the Plaza Rose Room—besides even that required several cocktails "to come down to the intellectual level of the women present," as Amory had once put it to a horrified matron.   (source)
    intellectual = intelligence
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  • She uses a subtle satire that appeals to intellectuals.
    intellectuals = highly educated people interested in ideas
  • Adam Smith was a leading intellectual of his time.
    intellectual = a highly educated person interested in learning and exploring ideas
  • A part of me had thought I'd finally be revealed as an intellectual fraud, that the administration would realize they'd made a terrible mistake and send me back to Middletown with their sincerest apologies.   (source)
    intellectual = highly educated person
  • Mrs. Bell was an intellectual and a member of a distinguished Savannah family.   (source)
  • She looked pretty but interesting, like Pete as an intellectual.   (source)
  • Playing the stock market, of course, the last refuge in the world for the dangerous intellectual out of a job.   (source)
  • Mr. Hale is nearing forty, a tight-skinned, eager-eyed intellectual.   (source)
    intellectual = a highly educated person interested in learning and exploring ideas
  • My neighbours were intellectuals, from a higher class than the tenants in Putawska Street.   (source)
    intellectuals = highly educated people
  • Asagai doesn't care how houses look, Mama—he's an intellectual.   (source)
    intellectual = highly educated person interested in ideas
  • I thought he was destined for greatness as an academic, as an intellectual, and my greatness would be in being with him.   (source)
    intellectual = highly educated person
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  • The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated.   (source)
  • "And now," Mr. Foster went on, "I'd like to show you some very interesting conditioning for Alpha Plus Intellectuals."   (source)
    intellectuals = highly educated people
  • "Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing," he muttered.†   (source)
  • A faction of intellectuals is no army.†   (source)
  • They think they're being modern men, intellectuals, on account of their education, I suppose.†   (source)
  • One of the reactionary intellectuals who attacked the Party and socialism?†   (source)
  • They're merchants, businessmen, soldiers, officers, shop owners, politicians, land barons, artists, and intellectuals.†   (source)
  • The deciding factor in how they reacted wasn't how emotionally secure they were, or whether they were intellectuals or jocks, or whether they were physically imposing or not.†   (source)
  • I think of something I read about Sargent: how, in portraiture, Sargent always looked for the animal in the sitter (a tendency that, once I knew to look for it, I saw everywhere in his work: in the long foxy noses and pointed ears of Sargent's heiresses, in his rabbit-toothed intellectuals and leonine captains of industry, his plump owl-faced children).†   (source)
  • This herd consists of other writers, a few successful visual artists, Concourse intellectuals, All Thing media representatives, a few radical ARNists and cosmetic gene splicers, Web aristocrats, wealthy farcaster freaks and Flashback addicts, a few holie and stage directors, a scattering of actors and performance artists, several Mafia dons gone straight, and a revolving list of recent celebrities… myself included.†   (source)
  • The young sophomore had never dreamed that Peter Solomon, one of America's wealthiest and most intriguing young intellectuals, would ever write back.†   (source)
  • Watching TV programs featuring psychiatrists convinced me, for they came across as dynamic intellectuals who knew everything about solving anybody's problems.†   (source)
  • He felt that intellectuals usually have the greatest trouble seeing this Quality, precisely because they are so swift and absolute about snapping everything into intellectual form.†   (source)
  • Her suite saw more than its share of Japanese artists, intellectuals, business figures—even cabinet ministers and a gangster or two.†   (source)
  • The Marxists Farmer had read, and many of the intellectuals he knew, disdained religion, and it was true that some versions of Christianity, and more than a few missionaries, invited impoverished Haitians into what Père Lafontant called "the cult of resignation," into accepting their lot patiently, anticipating the afterlife.†   (source)
  • He reproached us for being elderly middle-class intellectuals who identified with the movie's right-wing authorities instead of with the bikers.†   (source)
  • My parents were intellectuals.†   (source)
  • Most of the other young Fellows were dyed-in-the-tweed intellectuals who liked to pun in Greek.†   (source)
  • The results were somewhat startling: the highly gifted kids in the study weren't much more likely to become prominent intellectuals than normal kids.†   (source)
  • Not many intellectuals are prepared to shovel manure with the peasants and then go home and write a "little book" called War and Peace.†   (source)
  • Roshaneh grew up in a wealthy, emancipated family of intellectuals who allowed her to study at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and later earn her MA in development economics at Yale.†   (source)
  • The Red Guards said they were killing the class enemies, which included the landlords, factory owners, successful businessmen, Guomindang Party members and army officers, intellectuals and anyone who might pose a threat to the communist government.†   (source)
  • The French intellectuals with whom Franz had entered the ballroom felt slighted and humiliated.†   (source)
  • The guys that are on the basketball team stick together, the Catholics stick together, the goddam intellectuals stick together, the guys that play bridge stick together.†   (source)
  • It is a failing of pampered intellectuals that they assume everyone at their table is as civilized as they are.†   (source)
  • Because you and your feeble intellectuals have never understood what we have understood from the start.†   (source)
  • Intellectuals?†   (source)
  • Intellectuals always hope for the best.†   (source)
  • Very few intellectuals in this army.†   (source)
  • That's a debate for the scientists and the intellectuals.†   (source)
  • He wore a striped dress shirt that had been cut for a thinner man and a pair of the rimless spectacles beloved by German intellectuals and Swiss bankers.†   (source)
  • There were Jews hiding out all over Warsaw, not ghetto Jews, naturellement, but better-class Jews—assimiles, many intellectuals.†   (source)
  • As a result Africa was full of refugees, first-generation intellectuals.†   (source)
  • By a kind of fluke, a story too long to go into, he'd been released at the end of three years, his freedom bought for him by the United States Government, part of a project at that time to rescue incarcerated Jewish intellectuals.†   (source)
  • You're just letting yourself get bulldozed by a bunch'a what d'ya call 'em—intellectuals.†   (source)
  • Then the people in this prison are intellectuals?†   (source)
  • In those early days, men like Pamphil Palykh, who needed no encouragement to hate intellectuals, officers, and gentry with a savage hatred, were regarded by enthusiastic left-wing intellectuals as a rare find and greatly valued.†   (source)
  • BOTARD: [to DUDARD] All you get at the universities are effete intellectuals with no practical knowledge of life.†   (source)
  • To some extent he had attempted to shrug off his attackers, stating that he had expected to be libeled and abused, particularly by the Abolitionists and intellectuals who had previously scorned him, much as George Washington and others before him had been abused.†   (source)
  • To start a play made up of Kings and Cardinals in speaking costumes and intellectuals with embroidered mouths, with me.†   (source)
  • He was an intellectual, a firebrand, an Eritrean who like her had left the cause.   (source)
    intellectual = highly educated person interested in ideas
  • With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.   (source)
    intellectual = highly educated person
  • He traded with them, standing there dripping with sweat in summer and shivering in the winter frosts, inflexible, obstinately true to his own ideas: if, as an intellectual, he could have no other contact with books then at least he would have this, and he would not sink any lower.   (source)
    intellectual = highly educated person interested in ideas
  • The workers went along with the Nazis, the Church stood by and watched, the middle classes were too cowardly to do anything, and so were the leading intellectuals.   (source)
    intellectuals = highly educated people
  • When they had finished, they stationed themselves a few paces away on the pavement, drew their pistols, and Thwick-Thwack shouted, 'Intellectuals, fall out!'   (source)
  • No time for the intellectual embryos, I'm afraid.   (source)
  • His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer.   (source)
    intellectual = highly educated person
  • His questioners now were not ruffians in black uniforms but Party intellectuals, little rotund men with quick movements and flashing spectacles, who worked on him in relays over periods which lasted — he thought, he could not be sure — ten or twelve hours at a stretch.   (source)
    intellectuals = highly educated people
  • But beware the artist who's an intellectual also.   (source)
    intellectual = highly educated person interested in ideas
  • I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.   (source)
  • "Well," said Amory, "he's a—he's an intellectual personage not very well known at present."   (source)
  • "And like most intellectuals who don't find faith convenient," he continued coldly, "like Napoleon and Oscar Wilde and the rest of your type, you'll yell loudly for a priest on your death-bed."   (source)
    intellectuals = highly educated people
  • The mediocre intellects, Plato's second class, use the remnants of romantic chivalry diluted with Victorian sentiment—and we who consider ourselves the intellectuals cover it up by pretending that it's another side of us, has nothing to do with our shining brains; we pretend that the fact that we realize it is really absolving us from being a prey to it.   (source)
    intellectuals = highly educated people interested in ideas
  • Based on this background, Shao Lin also rose quickly as intellectuals became favored again.†   (source)
  • Those who were attracted by it were still mostly intellectuals.†   (source)
  • Hank, why do you have so many intellectuals of the looter persuasion here?†   (source)
  • Women these days like intellectuals, especially the women with big breasts, so I'm an intellectual.†   (source)
  • The professors, the poets, the intellectuals, the world-savers and the brother-lovers.†   (source)
  • That's going to antagonize the intellectuals.†   (source)
  • "You're a fine bunch of intellectuals, you are," said Mr. Thompson scornfully.†   (source)
  • "Oh, you theoretical intellectuals!" said Mr. Thompson with exasperation.†   (source)
  • You don't have to worry about the intellectuals, Wesley.†   (source)
  • Do anything you please to the intellectuals.†   (source)
  • We've got no use for intellectuals around here!†   (source)
  • The stream of puffed-up political opinions, the tales of parties Madaline had attended with her husband, the poets and intellectuals and musicians she'd clinked champagne flutes with, the list of needless, senseless trips she had taken to foreign cities.†   (source)
  • For that matter, it is not all that different from the way the world of classical music picks its future virtuosos, or the way the world of ballet picks its future ballerinas, or the way our elite educational system picks its future scientists and intellectuals.†   (source)
  • Translator's Note: These were some of the most famous intellectuals who committed suicide during the Cultural Revolution.†   (source)
  • Translator's Note: The May Seventh Cadre Schools were labor camps during the Cultural Revolution where cadres and intellectuals were "re-educated."†   (source)
  • They cried, and their repentance was far deeper and more sincere than that of those Monsters and Demons who were not intellectuals.†   (source)
  • Then, unscientific ways of thinking will dominate scientific thinking among human intellectuals, and lead to the collapse of the entire scientific system of thought.†   (source)
  • Wang was familiar with old intellectuals like her: The long years had ground away all the hardness and fierceness in their personalities, until all that was left was a gentleness like that of water.†   (source)
  • Many others picked an easier path to avoid the madness: Lao She, Wu Han, Jian Bozan, Fu Lei, Zhao Jiuzhang, Yi Qun, Wen Jie, Hai Mo, and other once-respected intellectuals had all chosen to end their lives.†   (source)
  • The intellect played a far greater role in the violent world than the non-violent intellectuals would ever admit — their brains would be blown away in a world they scorned as barbarian because they could not think fast enough or deeply enough.†   (source)
  • They had killed all the Hutu politicians and intellectuals they could, even schoolteachers and nurses, and many schoolchildren -- at least 100,000 Hutus in all, and some said 200,000 or even 300,000; many other Hutus had fled to neighboring countries such as Rwanda and Tanzania.†   (source)
  • He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals.†   (source)
  • I see him raise his balled fists above his head and bring one down hard, hammering at the air as if he is smashing the heads of those pointy-headed intellectuals and outside agitators, and the people roar again.†   (source)
  • My argument was that it was as undemocratic to specify that the leaders had to be from the working class as to declare that they should be bourgeois intellectuals.†   (source)
  • The numbers, our political heads explained, referred to 7 May 1970, when Madame Mao delivered a famous speech to the arts and education communities, using Chairman Mao's philosophies to encourage all intellectuals to engage, both physically and mentally, with the three classes: peasants, workers and soldiers.†   (source)
  • And so we've decided to draft a petition and have it signed by the most important Czech intellectuals, the ones who still mean something.†   (source)
  • An explosion rang out, and his body, ripped to pieces, went flying through the air, raining a shower of blood on the European intellectuals.†   (source)
  • The barriers in these mazes are like iron fences with sharpened spikes, and they condemn intellectuals to wander, but if an intellectual can jump those fences he can see how the puzzle is laid out.†   (source)
  • Like all intellectuals at the time, he read a weekly newspaper published in three hundred thousand copies by the Union of Czech Writers.†   (source)
  • First it was signed by a number of intellectuals, and then other people came forward and asked to sign, and finally there were so many signatures that no one could quite count them up.†   (source)
  • The idea was for a group of important Western intellectuals to march to the Cambodian border and by means of this great spectacle performed before the eyes of the world to force the occupied country to allow the doctors in.†   (source)
  • People were still reacting to the mass persecution of Czech intellectuals with the euphoria of solidarity, and when his former patients found out that Tomas was washing windows for a living, they would phone in and order him by name.†   (source)
  • How can it be that leftist intellectuals (because the doctor with the mustache was nothing if not a leftist intellectual) are willing to march against the interests of a Communist country when Communism has always been considered the left's domain?†   (source)
  • Several days later he was in a large jet taking off from Paris with twenty doctors and about fifty intellectuals (professors, writers, diplomats, singers, actors, and mayors) as well as four hundred reporters and photographers.†   (source)
  • The very next day he resigned from the clinic, assuming (correctly) that after he had descended voluntarily to the lowest rung of the social ladder (a descent being made by thousands of intellectuals in other fields at the time), the police would have no more hold over him and he would cease to interest them.†   (source)
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