The intellectuals of the Balkans - a curse, not in disguise, a nefarious presence, ominous, erratic and corrupt.
The Balkan intellectuals chose narcissistic self-absorption and navel gazing over "other-orientation".
Intellectuals are prominent among all the nationalist parties in the Balkans - and rare among the scant centre parties that have recently sprung out of the ashes of communism.
The intellectuals of Central Europe, of the Baltic States - even of Russia - chose to interpret these events to their people, to encourage freedom and growth, to posit goals and to motivate.
The intellectuals of the Balkans failed miserably.
The farmers will toil their land andintellectuals will conspire.
All that day of the eclipse of the last millennium, even the intellectuals stayed in their cellars and in their offices and did not dare venture out.
The modern state was indeed invented by intellectuals (historians and philologists) and then solidified by ethnic cleansing and the horrors of warfare.
Kosovar intellectualswere watching Albanian TV and reading Albanian papers even throughout the Stalinist period of Enver Hoxha, the long time Albanian dictator.
True, all hideous regimes had their figleaf intellectuals and with a few exceptions, the regimes in the Balkans are not hideous.
Eastern politicians and Eastern intellectuals often hang themselves by their own verbose Gordic knots, having stumbled through a minefield of logical fallacies and endured self inflicted inconsistencies.
Vaknin is not only mocking the intellectuals and ordinary mortals of the East, but he humiliatingly attributes the existence of that "conspiracy" to the "paranoiac and schizoid nature" of their minds.
It is here that intellectuals usually step in (see my article: "The Poets and the Eclipse").
Here intellectuals preach conformity, doing things the old, proven way, protectionism against the trade of liberal minds.
He was equally intolerant of certain of Merle's little band of forward-looking intellectuals who came to stay week-ends at the Whipple New Place.
But the little cluster of intellectuals on the staff of the New Dawn persevered.
Our intellectuals discuss coldly the primitive quality of patriotism and its unexpected recrudescence in this world war.
But are these intellectuals right in their estimate of the common man?
Yet any of our young intellectuals might be proud of having written "In Articulo Mortis"; surely there is nothing very simple about "The Sphinx.
Like most young intellectualstheir gospel concerned itself with reform, with the ridicule of shams, with the refusal to accept the popularity of new doctrines as a final test of their value.
They really are little concerned with theories of the state and of social development, which to our intellectuals seem to be the essence of bolshevism.
Aubrey says of Sir Henry Blount, "He is now neer or altogether eighty yeares, his intellectuals good still and body pretty strong.
By means of hypnotism I purged his intellectuals of their hallucination, relieving them of their perception of objects which have no reality and ridding them of sensations which have no corresponding external cause.
Nature had provided him with a mighty brain in a powerful body; he had a physique equal to the performance of what suggestion soever his splendid intellectuals made.
This is the case with the intellectuals and with many practical commercial or industrial men; but the canonists and the vulgar still live in the illusion of the days of Islâm's greatness.
When I have gone, perhaps the intellectuals will not feel so bored.
I have a reason for making this remark, for I know we have intellectuals here, and I should regret if they left feeling we have not given them enough.
Every young artist like my acquaintance at the Grafton Gallery, every young novelist like Mr. Gilbert Cannan,[1] is encouraged by the intellectuals to accept formlessness and anarchy as evidence of a magnanimous and enlightened spirit.
When I remember my reactions to the first portion of this book, I can readily picture the impatience and even scorn of many intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals.
For the most part this stand is taken by the intellectuals in all modern countries.
A great movement can only come from the intellectualsof the countries most menaced and from fresh popular energies.
And while direct action has always been vigorously supported in France both by the intellectuals and by the masses, it is the policy of Guesde and Jaures which has made headway.
But in France the very acts that result from weakness and despair have been greeted with enthusiasm by the anarchists and the effete intellectuals as the beginning of new and improved revolutionary methods.
They were the minor intellectualsof London, and I had portrayed some of them in a novel called "Intellectual Mansions," which they did not like, though I loved them all.
By intellectuals I don't mean high-brow fellows with letters after their names and encyclopaedias in their brain-pans.
Very soon the intellectuals will be looking round for a living in dear old London.
By translating Buddhism into a Neo-Taoist framework, these southern intellectuals effectively avoided having to grapple with the new ideas in Buddhist metaphysics.
In an age of political turmoil, many intellectuals flocked to the new school of Ch'an, with its promise of tranquil meditation in uneasy times.
One form of this opposition was the imported religion of Buddhism, which provided a spiritual solace missing in the teachings of Confucius, while the other was a revival among intellectuals of Philosophical Taoism.
He would have attacked, in England, the House of Lords instead of Oxford, and had an eye for the intellectuals who are beginning to sway the mighty power of the labor unions.
It is true that theintellectuals and worldly folk in general did not share this prejudice.
Politicians are never in very high favour with the intellectuals of a country.
The oligarchy of the intellectuals is to be reconciled with the dictatorship of the majority.
In a philosophy for intellectuals such attitudes need not, perhaps, be reckoned with; in an ideology for revolution and reconstitution, perhaps they should.
It is the Intellectualsand not the bourgeois (who are hiding) that suffer most from the Bolshevist régime.
He is an Intellectual of the Intellectuals and has never had the slightest proletarian experience.
Soon theIntellectuals began to organize unions, ostensibly for the protection of their professional interests, but in reality for political purposes.
Landowners, capitalists, military officials, and Intellectuals were united with the peasants and artisans, to an even greater extent than in the early stages of the First Revolution.
The cry went forth, "Kill theIntellectuals and the Jews!
On the evening of the day of the tragedy there was a meeting of more than seven hundred Intellectuals at which the means for carrying on revolution was the topic discussed.
Many of the men who played prominent rôles in the Petrograd Soviet, for example, as delegates of the factory-workers, were Intellectuals of the type described.
The majority of the intellectuals did not participate, and many workers also; some of the workers because they were politically backward, others because the center of gravity for them was in their unions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intellectuals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: capacity; consciousness; faculty; parts; senses
