All 4 Uses of
intellectual
in
The Shining
- He had written back wryly that The Little School had been indefinitely — and perhaps infinitely — delayed between hand and page "in that interesting intellectual Gobi known as the writer's block.†
Chpt 3
- And when he felt he had an opponent dead in his sights, an intellectual sort of buck fever seemed to take place between his speech centers and his mouth and he would freeze solid while the clock ran out.†
Chpt 3
- Now he tended more and more to see Denker as a Mr. Chips figure, and the tragedy was not the intellectual racking of Gary Benson but rather the destruction of a kindly old teacher and headmaster unable to see through the cynical wiles of this monster masquerading as a boy.†
Chpt 4
- A job like that even held the intellectual stimulation of making change and writing out credit slips.†
Chpt 4 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(intellectual as in: intellectual stimulation) related to intelligence -- such as requiring, appealing to, or possessing intelligence
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(2)
(intellectual as in: She is an intellectual.) a highly educated person interested in learning and exploring ideas -- sometimes while ignoring practical considerations