I know, but the whole thing lacked intellectual excitement.

And the show feels good: the pleasure principle is at work, but so is the intellectual excitement of seeing things for the first time.

His lectures were a considerable source of intellectual excitement.

Being back in academic surroundings was reawakening his appetite for intellectual excitement.

Then he smiled, amused by his own unaccustomed intellectual excitement.

She was the better actor, selling mathematics and intellectual excitement to these kids.

She says she needs to feel a sense of intellectual excitement about a project.

If all this sounds heavy and pompous, it's worth pointing out that college experience also offers intellectual excitement.

This book is full of life, to say nothing of intellectual excitement and moral subtlety.

Or they may come from "intellectual excitement", from philosophy, science and the arts.