Example sentences for: intellectuals

How can you use “intellectuals” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Held on a single day in the basement auditorium of the Berkeley Art Museum at the University of California at Berkeley, it brought together a typically motley collection of intellectuals who would willingly give over a sunny Saturday to an opportunity to learn from a panel of distinguished speakers.

  • Book -- Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science , by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont;

  • But the exemption has been strained to breaking point in Flytrap, as black intellectuals struggle to explain why the African-American electorate supports Bill Clinton so much more vigorously than the white one does.

  • Less amusing, but more typical, is an 1983 essay by James Atlas in The Atlantic Monthly , in which he offers up the spectacle of himself cringing at the feet of the New York intellectuals who helped him with his biography of poet Delmore Schwartz--and equally nasty portraits of the intellectuals themselves.

  • Stimulated by the ideas of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot, the country’s intellectuals were more keenly aware of being Europeans, but also Italians.


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