The Vanished Intellectual

Tom is an intellectual.

But not highbrow, like last night.

I'm not a man of action, I'm an intellectual.

I am Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor intellectual, neuroanatomist.

But if he shouldn't turn out to be an intellectual?

There's Melli. Ask him where the other intellectual is.

Rafizadeh looks every bit the intellectual glasses, leather jacket, cigarette.

He was highly intellectual, and was an expert in history, philosophy and science.

I will say frankly that I am an amateur, I am not a genius or an intellectual.

He is a serious young intellectual, and one with a young wife and child.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Abdul Rahman, the young intellectual, swore allegiance to ISIS from the first day of its existence.

An Arab intellectual persecuted by an Arab regime, it seems, is nowhere near the top of their agenda.

Kanellopoulos was an intellectual and author of books about politics, law, sociology, philosophy, history etc.

The late literary theorist and public intellectual Edward Said might even have called it an example of paternalistic Orientalism.

A leading public intellectual Naoki Inose, who is also Tokyo s vice governor, has declared that the era of growth is over.

One conservative intellectual put it in almost Nietzschean terms Yes, two million people took to the street after the elections.

And it doesn't matter to me whether you're running a coffee shop or you're an intellectual, or you're in business, or you're flying hot air balloons.

To the Bolivian people Victor Hugo Cárdenas is not only an Aimara Indian, a person from the countryside, but a great professional and outstanding intellectual.

NEW YORK The eccentric Bengali intellectual Nirad C. Chaudhuri once explained the end of the British Raj in India as a case of funk, or loss of nerve.

No one has expressed that mission better than Benjamin Franklin, a man of letters and a scientific innovator, who defined education as the quest for true merit.

(Laughter) Ze isn't just a great public intellectual, he's also a brilliant community builder, and the community of people that built up around these videos was in many ways a community of learners, so we played Ze Frank at chess collaboratively, and we beat him.

Romney s Kipling is the neo conservative intellectual Robert Kagan, whose new book, The World America Made, argues against the myth of American decline.

The French public intellectual Bernard Henri Lévy, who had promoted the Libyan revolution with a strong dose of narcissistic showmanship, wrote that the lynching of Qaddafi polluted the essential morality of the people s rebellion.

This is why anyone, even a relatively unknown intellectual like Liu Xiaobo, who challenges the legitimacy of Communist Party rule by demanding multi party elections, must be crushed. It is why the government does not dare to let the renminbi appreciate too fast, lest economic growth slow, causing the Party loses face and legitimacy.

This is why anyone, even a relatively unknown intellectual like Liu Xiaobo, who challenges the legitimacy of Communist Party rule by demanding multi party elections, must be crushed.

As the Jordanian intellectual and former foreign minister Marwan al Muasher has argued, state and religious interpretations of history, science, and political values are hammered into Arab students.

Wuffli, highly intellectual, modest, with a deep understanding of models and statistics, and Ospel, with gut instinct who had worked his way up from being a banker's apprentice.

A bespectacled intellectual, Davutoglu never quite had the aura of Erdogan, who came to the fore as Turkey's Prime Minister and AKP's guiding political force in 2003.

The public self, the beauty, the intellect, and she walked around and talked to every person there and then went back into the room and was never seen again.

In an uncertain age, whoever defines us first, whether a politician, an artist, or an intellectual, will merit a prominent place in our history.

Azmi Bishara, a prominent Arab intellectual and political analyst, criticized Assad's statement as Hitlerian , interpreting it to mean Assad confirming that genocide and displacement are core doctrines of the regime.

As one well known Japanese intellectual told me during a recent visit to Tokyo, I can accept constitutional revision in the long run, but not while Abe is prime minister.

A third Islamic intellectual, Nurcholish Madjid, called for the de sacralizing of politics in the 1970 s, advocated genuine multi party democracy in the 1990 s, and personally urged Suharto to step down in 1998.

He is an interesting man, a genuine intellectual driven by his inner demons both to flay those who pay insufficient credit to his transformational role in Australian politics and to expose what he regards as waffle and myths.

Mao is certainly a more interesting figure than were many tyrants a poet, an intellectual, a student of history as well as a serial philanderer, who, according to his doctor, Li Zhisui, liked to swim in water, not bathe in it.

Referring to Jalal Al e Ahmad s 1962 book Gharbzadegi ( West toxication ), which became one of the manifestos of the 1979 revolution, one secular intellectual in Teheran remarked to me that, Nobody reads Al e Ahmad anymore.