He initially found it impossible to see how any serious intellectual could also be religious.

Luce hired outstanding journalists-some of them serious intellectuals, as well as talented editors.

Although George is a serious intellectual, the Guldens' table talk fails to capture the elevated conversational tone of an academic household.

He was the perfect combination of a charismatic speaker and a serious intellectual.

She explains her impetus to do popular cultural work: "I've always really loved popular culture, but it wasn't something serious intellectuals were supposed to be concerned about.

He regarded himself as a serious Marxist intellectual.

Martin, however, belongs to a time when many serious intellectuals no longer believed in a hidden supernatural reality.

A serious intellectual, she graduated from Columbia University at 18 and read constantly, mostly nonfiction, about the economy.

While Schlafly is a serious intellectual, Steinem is a deeply ridiculous figure who succeeded as a journalist only by becoming the news rather than reporting it.

Many of them were serious literary intellectuals and in fact are doing some of their best work today.