How to Use intelligentsia in a Sentence

intelligentsia

noun

• Her days as the farmer’s daughter, a lone voice heckling the East Coast intelligentsia from the sticks, were over.
  — Lili Anolik, VanityFair.com, 19 June 2017
• Among Democrats and the left-wing intelligentsia, that’s to be expected.
  — Ellen Carmichael, National Review, 1 Aug. 2021
• Will is perhaps the last remnant of a distinctive slice of the old East Coast intelligentsia.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
• Not that there’s a great intelligentsia in this country.
  — Jean Guerrero, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
• There is Princip the poet, a member of the intelligentsia.
  — Jessica Stern, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• Some of the sharpest minds in the fantasy intelligentsia believe that Dalton is one of this year’s best mid-range QB values.
  — Pat Fitzmaurice, SI.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• Think of the way Beth Grant has honed the suburban busybody to its sharpest points, or how, with just one sigh, Michael Stuhlbarg serves up the foibles of the intelligentsia on a silver platter.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2020
• The news media, intelligentsia, and the Twitterverse all went wild.
  — Jerry Hendrix, National Review, 15 Feb. 2018
• The working and middle class find common cause, along with the unions, military, and intelligentsia.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 31 July 2011
• In his late teens, Collodi went to work at a respected bookstore in Florence and began to mix with the intelligentsia.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
• Lebedev was born into Moscow’s intelligentsia in 1980, a decade before the fall of the Soviet Union.
  — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 21 Feb. 2021
• The attendees looked mostly bookish; a few of the younger ones wore the beards and browline glasses favored by the transnational intelligentsia.
  — James Angelos, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
• And would all of this have happened with little to no complaint from the conservative intelligentsia?
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Mar. 2018
• The intelligentsia no longer believes that faith and freedom can be harmonized.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 16 June 2019
• In London, Mai became a sensation, a star of the press, the darling of the intelligentsia, the subject of poems, books, musical plays—and a curiosity that some of the country’s finest artists sought to paint.
  — Hampton Sides, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2021
• The intelligentsia, for the most part, applauded Coleman’s daring.
  — Julian Sancton, Billboard, 5 May 2017
• But among the party’s intelligentsia, all agree there is a common wish that the White House be occupied by a different Republican.
  — Lisa Miller, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Oct. 2017
• Another problem is that some of the intelligentsia see the success sequence as middle-class norms to be disparaged for being middle-class norms.
  — George Will, Alaska Dispatch News, 6 July 2017
• An intellectual cannot turn a blind eye when a nation dies after the surrender of its elite (especially since there are only two kinds of elites, the elites of the people and the intelligentsia).
  — Madison Mainwaring, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
• These are people who were the potential liberal forces and intelligentsia of not only Moscow but many other places.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
• The selection of judges has been outsourced to the Federalist Society and to Heritage—in other words, to the cream of the conservative legal intelligentsia.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 20 July 2017
• Their intelligentsia seems determined to ensure that no Midwestern whites ever vote for the party again.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 3 Nov. 2017
• Today America’s intelligentsia is in the grip of a hallucinogenic fever dream.
  — Alex Kuczynski, Town & Country, 20 Jan. 2022
• Members of the basketball intelligentsia routinely describe her as one of the game’s top analysts.
  — Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2018
• In post-Putin Russia, there will be no popular demand for democratic reforms and no intelligentsia to promote them.
  — WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
• The Washington intelligentsia says absolutely not, given the $78 trillion in budget deficits that CBO is projecting over the next 30 years.
  — Brian Riedl, National Review, 2 Nov. 2017
• Her paintings of everyday life among Manhattan’s intelligentsia from the Teens through the early 1940s are delightful and pungent.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 12 May 2022
• During the reign of Empress Wu Zetian, China’s only female ruler, in the 7th century, the exam became a national rite of passage for the intelligentsia.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2021
• For a long time now this Moscow Patriarchate church has been discussed by patriotic intelligentsia as a kind of fifth column.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2019
• Each time conservatives cracked down on reformist activists and blocked their initiatives within the state, the reformist leadership and intelligentsia called on the supporters to be calm.
  — Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024