intellectual power

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The bumps and contours of the cranium were once believed to reflect the intellectual power and moral strength of the mind inside.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Namechecking the private all-male dining club at Oxford University, whose past members have included Boris Johnson, David Cameron and George Osborne, she said: “It was about the intellectual power of the argument that mattered.”

From The Guardian • Oct. 18, 2021

“They were delivered with intellectual power and with a deep commitment to the material he was talking about.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2021

Joyce Fienberg and her late husband, Stephen, were intellectual power houses, but those who knew them say they were the kind of people who used that intellect to help others.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2018

Or does the whole colony have, by virtue of the interconnections of so many small brains, the collective intellectual power of a huge contractor?

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas