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intellectual stimulation
Definition
related to intelligence — such as requiring, appealing to, or possessing intelligence
- Had he been a lunatic or an intellectually honourable man who'd thought things through to their logical conclusion?p. 343.9
- "Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say.p. 69.8
- If only he could be like that — intellectually honourable.p. 69.9
There are no more uses of "intellectual" flagged with this meaning in Oryx and Crake.
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- They liked a dash of originality and risk-taking and intellectual rigour.p. 195.1
- Jimmy would do better at intellectual honourableness if only he would try harder.p. 70.1
- He had his doubts about Crake's honourableness, intellectual or otherwise.p. 70.3
- It must have got tired of the soul's constant nagging and whining and the anxiety-driven intellectual web-spinning of the mind, distracting it whenever it was getting its teeth into something juicy or its fingers into something good.p. 85.6
- With this kind of attrition going on — this erosion of its former intellectual territory — Martha Graham had found itself without a very convincing package to offer.p. 187.9
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