intellectual
Example Sentences
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College courses must actively cultivate the virtues of curiosity, open-mindedness, intellectual humility, analytical rigor and, above all, dedication to the pursuit of truth.
Yet he acquired a reputation as a dandy, a clever humorist and an intellectual showman, distinctly apolitical and seemingly a man of no convictions.
From Los Angeles Times
The theater’s importance as a locus of intelligent inquiry and intellectual ferment—not momentous, alas—owes a great debt to his influence.
Tom Stoppard, writer of intellectual plays that charmed both critics and crowds, has died.
He was a writer who managed to combine an intellectual's delight in complexity with an entertainer's talent for having fun.
From BBC
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