intelligentsia
Example Sentences
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“A nearly eight-hour drama about the Russian intelligentsia that received mixed reviews when it premiered in London in 2002, ‘The Coast of Utopia’ isn’t for the theatrical faint of heart,” cautioned Times critic McNulty.
From Los Angeles Times
“While the United States generally ignores ideology in foreign policy and world affairs, Marxism and its many intellectual variations are surprisingly quite popular among American intelligentsia and on American campuses,” Mr. Yu said.
From Washington Times
“In a certain way, that has been against me within a certain conservative intelligentsia,” Ernaux said, adding readers have been backing her by buying her books.
From Seattle Times
This is especially true among the city’s intelligentsia, who often have disposable income and passports for foreign travel.
From New York Times
The difference is Stalin was riding the momentum of the recent Bolshevik revolution and the intelligentsia were in a modernist ferment, he said.
From Washington Times
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