Example sentences for: intelligentsia

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

  • His wife, Judy, and her father, Howard, are members of the intelligentsia in an unnamed country in the near future, and the story--told by the three characters seated at a table in direct address to the camera--involves the gradual destruction of their lives by an oppressive regime, and the moral disintegration of Jack, the eponymous survivor.

  • The authors wrote that they were "saddened and frightened" by the implications of this choice, and they blamed the white intelligentsia for legitimizing it.

  • Leave charming the local intelligentsia to diplomats.

  • But somehow the intelligentsia, in the Russian sense, lost its confidence and broad vision over the next decades.

  • He horrified the publishing intelligentsia by shutting down Basic Books.


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