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
When the leftist intelligentsia split into feuding factions, Cowley and the New Republic obstinately persisted in advocating for Stalinism despite ample proof of its brutality and despotism.
But he had the support of the intelligentsia at the New York Review of Books and Village Voice, and a theater culture that was willing to accommodate him while he found his footing.
From Los Angeles Times
He attacked the “intelligentsia” of the Democratic Party for not supporting his father, former President Joe Biden, when he ran for reelection.
From Salon
The right-wing intelligentsia has seemed to see this as a kind of respectable fascism — without all the 20th century unpleasantness with which the term is associated.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
