Manes calls the Enlightenment a "holocaust," because it was during that period that the intellectual distinction between man and nature was first made.

But consider the intellectual distinction of the catalogs art museums routinely publish, celebrating their exhibitions and collections.

And more, that it seems a mark of intellectual distinction never to review the fiction in the context of the culture?

Students from any academic discipline are selected on the basis of intellectual distinction, as well as the promise of future leadership and service to the world.

Such intellectual distinctions seem lost on his critics.

The appreciation of fine wine and the appreciation of fine intellectual distinctions often go together.

There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings.

Bryce's intellectual distinction and political industry made him a valuable member of the Liberal Party.

It also bequeathed him a world of fantastic, if understated intellectual distinction.

From the invention of arithmetic until about 1970, speed and accuracy in handling numbers were a mark of intellectual distinction.