Among too many European literary intellectuals on either side of the Iron Curtain these words had fallen into disuse, or worse.
It was the scientists, not the literary intellectuals, as C. P. Snow reminded us, who had 'the future in their bones'.
Carlos Fuentes is the most prestigious of the literary intellectuals, and he has made himself a master of such watery endorsements.
And was very active in the circle of literary intellectuals in Berlin and Vienna.
He diagnosed the current situation as one in which the two cultures (literary intellectuals and scientists) had almost ceased to communicate with each other.
At 85, Albert Murray calls himself an "all-purpose literary intellectual."
One senses a lively curiosity if not a literary intellectual in O'Keeffe.
For the past fifty or a hundred years, transferred nationalism has been a common phenomenon among literary intellectuals.
Taking genre fiction lightly is the default position of literary intellectuals: the safe and lazy option.
Many of them were serious literary intellectuals and in fact are doing some of their best work today.