All 14 Uses of

intellectual

in

A Sketch of the Past

There are however these two marriages; and they show that she was capable of falling in love with two very different men; one, to put it in a nutshell, the pink of propriety; the other, the pink of intellectuality.†
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It was thus natural to her when she was a girl to love the simple, the genial, the normal ordinary type of man, in preference to the queer, the uncouth artistic, the intellectual, whom she had met and who had wished to marry her.†
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She was a hard, worldly woman, tightly dressed in black satin in London; up at Corby, a county lady, collecting Chelsea enamel snuff boxes, with ambitions to be the friend of intellectual men.†
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But as I heard my mother tell my father once, he was 'nothing out of the way' intellectually.†
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He was a little early Victorian boy, brought up in the intense narrow, evangelical yet political, highly intellectual yet completely unaesthetic, Stephen family, that had one foot in Clapham, the other in Downing Street.†
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…Apostle, was muscular; coached his boat; and Christian; but shed his Christianity—with such anguish, Fred Maitlandf once hinted to me, that he thought of suicide, and how then, like Pendennis or any other of the Victorian young men of intellect—he was typical of them—took to writing for the papers, went to America; and was, so far as I can see, the very type, or mould, of so many Cambridge intellectuals—like George Trevelyan, like Charlie Sanger, likeGoldie Dickinson—whom I knew later.†
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I have so clear an impression of them on my surface that if I am in the same room with them I feel I know exactly where I am; indeed, if I am in the same room with other types, like Harold Nicolson or Hugh Walpole, I have my Cambridge intellectual yard measure handy; and say silently: How terribly you fall short.†
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This frustrated desire to be a man of genius, and the knowledge that he was in truth not in the first flight—a knowlege which led to a great deal of despondency, and to that self-centredness which in later life at least made him so childishly greedy for compliments, made him brood so disproportionately over his failure and the extent of it and the reasons for it—these are qualities that break up the fine steel engraving of the typical Cambridge intellectual.†
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Undoubtedly I colour my picture too dark, and the Leslie Stephen whom the world saw in the eighties, and in the nineties until my mother died, must have been not merely a Cambridge steel engraving intellectual.†
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I cannot conceive him hearing everything that was said, and making jokes and being, of course, an intellectual man, but still a man of that well to do sociable late Victorian world.†
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We were only asked to admire and applaud when our male relations went through the different figures of the intellectual game.†
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But unfortunately, though we could and indeed must, sit passive and applaud the Victorian males when they went through the intellectual hoops, George's hoops—his social triumphs—needed our help.†
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Yet he kept his own intellectual attitude—the old Cambridge attitude—perfectly pure.†
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Definitions:

(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