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intellectuality

[in-tl-ek-choo-al-i-tee] / ˌɪn tlˌɛk tʃuˈæl ɪ ti /




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“She wanted artists to embrace our intellectuality and its fevered origins.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2021

Finally, I realized that’s the point: He’s a classic master teacher in the “Dead Poets Society” mode: iconoclastic but gimmicky, glazed with intellectuality but essentially narcissistic.

From Washington Post Dec. 11, 2017

It’s unfortunate that Black Cindy’s narrative is unique, but in the world of prestige dramas and comedies, religion or acts of worship are usually presented as things outside of intellectuality or artistic expression.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2015

“It was very rewarding, actually, to hear all the European intellectuality laughing out loud,” Mr. Banderas said, “after watching three Czechoslovakian movies that were very profound about the human spirit.”

From New York Times May 16, 2011

His Self had crawled into this priesthood, into this arrogance, into this intellectuality.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

According to their intellectualities their talk is of labor and capital, of working-girls' clubs and model tenement-houses, of Buddha and Zola, of foreign titles, and transplanted fox-hunting.

From The Opinions of a Philosopher by Grant, Robert

His meditation was not very intellectual or very profound, for since the change in his life Julian had put his old intellectualities away from him.

From Flames by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Brooklyn Eagle: “A dramatic critic who is not just ‘busting’ himself with Titanic intellectualities, but who is a readable dramatic critic....

From The Squirrel-Cage by Williams, John Alanzo




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