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This Side of Paradise

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.
Chpt 1.1

intellectual = rational (in contrast to emotional)

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.
Chpt 1.2

intellectual = highly educated person interested in ideas

Your last, that dissertation on architecture, was perfectly awful— so "highbrow" that I picture you living in an intellectual and emotional vacuum;
Chpt 1.3

intellectual = rational

His intellectual content seemed to submit passively to it, and it fitted like a glove everything that had ever preceded it in his life.
Chpt 1.3

intellectual = intelligent thought

...dull men are usually afraid of her cleverness and intellectual men are usually afraid of her beauty.
Chpt 2.1 *

intellectual = intelligent

…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.
Chpt 2.2

intellectual = intelligence

Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food.
Chpt 2.2

intellectual = intelligent thought

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.
Chpt 2.2

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.
Chpt 2.3

intellectual = rational (rather than emotional)

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.
Chpt 2.3

intellectuals = highly educated people interested in ideas

"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."
Chpt 2.3 *

intellectuals = highly educated people

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.
Chpt 2.5

intellectual = highly educated

But beware the artist who's an intellectual also.
Chpt 2.5

intellectual = highly educated person interested in ideas

"Well," said Amory, "he's a—he's an intellectual personage not very well known at present."
Chpt 2.5

These intellectual people—
Chpt 2.5

intellectual = interested in rational (in contrast to emotional) thought

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.
Chpt 2.5

intellectual = relating to intelligent consideration of ideas

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(1) (intellectual as in: intellectual stimulation)
related to intelligence -- such as requiring, appealing to, or possessing intelligence
(2) (intellectual as in: She is an intellectual.)
a highly educated person interested in learning and exploring ideas -- sometimes while ignoring practical considerations