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intellectual - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • century: Gramsci, arguably the greatest marxist intellectual of the twentieth century, in postwar Italy held a sway even greater than Croce's.

Converse of subject

  • write: Was it written by some young Chinese intellectuals in 1996?

Adjective modifier

  • dissident: How do Iranians see the world its foreign policy establishment, its dissident intellectuals, and its ordinary people?
  • Czech: I hope it is not an exaggeration to say that Czech intellectuals emerged disorientated and emasculated from the 1989 democratic revolution.
  • Western: It doesn't seem likely that Kristof and other Western intellectuals are prepared to pose, much less discuss, such questions.
  • prominent: In the late 1960s, Havel was one of many prominent Czechoslovak intellectuals pressing for political reform.
  • foremost: They span his remarkable 36 years as the US's foremost intellectual and anti-imperialist champion.

Modifies a noun

  • property: Intellectual property has been a hot news topic recently.
  • right: Further details on intellectual property rights can be found in UCL's Guidance to Students on IPR Issues.
  • rigor: This course combines: The intellectual rigor of a graduate program with the delivery of a business school.
  • curiosity: Ego: The Agony and the Ecstasy Ego is an opportunity to explore the intellectual curiosity of artists and scientists.
  • disability: There were also two Day Special Schools for school students with an intellectual disability.
  • stimulation: Jonathan values this network of colleagues and the intellectual stimulation their interchange provides.

Modifying Another Word

  • purely: First, from a purely intellectual or scientific point of view, the idea of an interlingua is interesting, and exciting.
  • merely: Fourth, they build " upon the sand " whose hope rests on a merely intellectual knowledge of the Truth.
  • essentially: Its statement on New Professionalism regards teaching as essentially intellectual as well as practical.
  • highly: He was a virtuoso: a man of letters and of science, highly intellectual and devoutly spiritual.
  • very: Hospitality may not be in a state of intellectual crisis simply because it is not, nor ever has been, very intellectual.
  • just: However, saving faith, the faith that actually grants you eternal life, is more than just intellectual acceptance.

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