6 sentences with 'intellectuals'
Example sentences and phrases with the word intellectuals and other words derived from it.
• « Deep inside, the communist intellectuals sensed that the United States represented an alternative to violent revolution, since this country had called into question the great cause to which they had dedicated their lives. »
• « In turn, the priests were probably the world's first intellectuals, people who use their minds for a living. »
• « Most male intellectuals continued to insist on the desirability of female submission and, with a few major exceptions, most of the literature and philosophy of the period was written by men. »
• « Between the 15th and 17th centuries a number of intellectuals in universities, churches and aristocratic courts and salons wrote numerous essays and books questioning whether women were naturally immoral, weak and foolish or whether, on the contrary, education and environment could lead to intelligence and morality comparable to that of men. »
• « Even Kant's essay celebrated what he described as the "public use of reason", that is, the exchange of ideas among intellectuals, while defending the authoritarian power of the (Prussian, in his case) king to demand that his subjects "obey". »