How to Use intellectualism in a Sentence

intellectualism

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  • The youngster was brought up in the best Petrie tradition of piety and intellectualism.
    — Jimmy Maher, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Far before this election, before any of this happened, the war on intellectualism has been in full swing.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • There are framed photographs of Michelle Obama and Oprah on the walls, and gigantic storybooks on the floor—a wink at the spirit of faux intellectualism.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Once famous as a bumbling bore on a TV quiz show, he was known for his intellectualism, charm and seduction in his personal life.
    — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
  • In the petri dish of anti-intellectualism known as high school, Daria was a proudly defiant holdout.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Of course, anti-intellectualism has been brewing before tweets; well before the days when my 12-year-old nephew and the president joined forces to weigh in on crucial world issues.
    — New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • Among other goals, the library was seeking to make its flagship more public friendly, a fuzzy term that can serve as a fig leaf for anti-intellectualism.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2017
  • But there were signs in that first campaign of Mr. Johnson’s predilection for anti-intellectualism.
    — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Adding to the mix, leaders of the Breslov movement emphasize euphoria and joy rather than the intellectualism of other Orthodox Jewish streams.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2020
  • This is a testimony to the rising right-wing anti-intellectualism in the U.S., where being well read and well educated is not to be admired—or even something to aspire to—but rather bestows the black mark of elitism.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 23 Sep. 2017
  • These air signs are the aesthetes of the zodiac: Ruled by Venus, the planet that governs love, beauty, and money, Libras adore high art, intellectualism, and connoisseurship.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 2 Feb. 2018
  • What Youngkin’s choice to raise this issue at this point in the campaign reveals is his understanding of the appeal of anti-intellectualism among a specific segment of voters.
    — NBC News, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The Suicide of the West is a book that can only be taken seriously by people from whom ideas matter less than the idea of ideas mattering; that is, for whom intellectualism is an exercise in branding and PR.
    — Park MacDougald, Daily Intelligencer, 1 June 2018
  • And yet, even then, his faults were on display, too: a mistrust of colleagues and partners that verged on the pathological, a paradoxical anti-intellectualism, and his egotism.
    — Michał Matlak, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Gone are perceptions of stodgy intellectualism that once surrounded the sport.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Benedictines have a tradition of intellectualism – the sisters have long been involved with the College of St. Benedict for women – and many of the teaching sisters subscribe to mailing lists and follow current events online.
    — Heather Millar, WIRED, 1 Aug. 1996
  • The result is a take-no-prisoners battle between the dark forces of anti-intellectualism and the shining light of a child’s lust for learning — which makes this show unexpectedly timely and topical.
    — Punch Shaw, star-telegram.com, 15 June 2017
  • Kori is giving Chloe good banter, and Matthew’s faux intellectualism is turning Madison off.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2020
  • But there is simply nothing on the left (or in the center, or in professional science) remotely equivalent to the anti-intellectualism that reaches to the very top of the Republican Party.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2010
  • In this series, each contributor trusts their tastes and thinks with and through the music to tell a story of unexpected connections and embodied intellectualism.
    — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The Internet and social media have stripped those once regarded as experts of much of their authority, and has in turn empowered non-experts, those who parade anti-intellectualism as a virtue and even as a strength.
    — Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, 20 May 2019
  • The thread of anti-intellectualism is perhaps the most intriguing aspect of this nexus of polarization, as it is intertwined with a recurrent issue.
    — Mugambi Jouet, The New Republic, 26 June 2020
  • But the overarching theme of her work was decline — of our politics, the environment, truth, intellectualism.
    — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2022
  • His image is one of ironic self-awareness and near-compulsive intellectualism.
    — Michael Friedrich, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Image Fueled from the top and fed by social media, anti-intellectualism challenges the core of higher education.
    — New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • Virgo Earth sign Virgos are known for their extreme intellectualism.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 27 Oct. 2017
  • In 1953, Ray Bradbury created a mirror for our worst fears about mass media, conformity, and anti-intellectualism.
    — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 19 May 2018
  • The whole production feels like a safe bet, relying on pedigree with just enough of a whiff of upper-middlebrow intellectualism to satisfy, but not challenge, a ticket-buying audience.
    — Vulture, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Kanye comes from black intellectualism and black excellence.
    — Gerrick D. Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Miller writes that Jamison’s intellectualism and interest in story-telling form a barrier to the truth—to understanding how that very interest resembles, and indeed drives, her substance abuse.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 16 May 2018

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