Word: intellection
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Defensive Coordinator Kay says that he has been especially impressed by Joe's "functional intellect" on the field Restic credits much of his success on the gridiron to his father's help in the backyard. "He gave me a deeper understanding of the game, made me a smarter football player," the younger Joe comments...
...vital to Graves' poetry and much more. "The political and social confusion of the last 3,000 years," he once told a visitor, "has been entirely due to man's revolt against woman as a priestess of the natural magic, and his defeat of wisdom by the use of intellect...
...asking me about the new Andropov government, and I've been saying that it's going to be strict on the one hand and appear to be intellectual on the other. However, we've seen plenty of examples of its being strict and so far little intellect...
...intrigue and adolescent sex, the book caught the public fancy as much for the author's precocious sophistication as for her fine-grained, sensuous prose style. Since then, literary fashions, linguistic games and critical theories have reduced much of French fiction to an esoteric art, impermeable to the intellect, oppressive to the spirit and absolutely no fun to read...
...FULL FACULTY of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University rarely moats anymore, but when it does, the gathering is, to paraphrase John F. Kennedy'40, the greatest assembiage of intellect in a single places since Thomas Jefferson dined alone. They're not all Nobel Laureates, but most are-or will one day be-preeminent scholars in their field. They are, for the most past, informed professors, eager to debase campus and national issues-often on an extremely high philosophical plane--with their colleagues...