How to Use intellectualism in a Sentence

intellectualism

noun

• 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
• 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, 10 Aug. 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

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024