How to Use intellectualism in a Sentence

intellectualism

noun
  • Look, this isn’t a lament against intellectualism.
    — Mara Reinstein, HollywoodReporter, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Both women have crises of faith in language, in intellectualism, in their role as a therapist and as a wife.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Far before this election, before any of this happened, the war on intellectualism has been in full swing.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The youngster was brought up in the best Petrie tradition of piety and intellectualism.
    — Jimmy Maher, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2020
  • In the petri dish of anti-intellectualism known as high school, Daria was a proudly defiant holdout.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Among other goals, the library was seeking to make its flagship more public friendly, a fuzzy term that can serve as a fig leaf for anti-intellectualism.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Gone are perceptions of stodgy intellectualism that once surrounded the sport.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Aug. 2020
  • His image is one of ironic self-awareness and near-compulsive intellectualism.
    — Michael Friedrich, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2018
  • For the designer, worldliness and intellectualism go hand in hand.
    — Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Even before the tragedy, the First Lady was already in the global spotlight, revered for her style and intellectualism.
    — Mallory Moench, TIME, 19 May 2024
  • Once famous as a bumbling bore on a TV quiz show, he was known for his intellectualism, charm and seduction in his personal life.
    — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
  • Also, Dustin’s girlfriend is at his level and an equal, a testimony to his airy intellectualism.
    — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Many commentators have framed this as a symptom of anti-intellectualism.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Virgo Earth sign Virgos are known for their extreme intellectualism.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Jil Sander, with sophistication and new intellectualism, is one of the best collections of this season.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • But few people think of pop-music critics as pillars of American intellectualism, and even fewer think of pop stars as an endangered species.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The suburb was a hothouse of intellectualism thanks to all the college faculty and administrators living there — and their wives.
    — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 May 2024
  • The mix of academic-level intellectualism and gross-out outrageousness fits the mood Riley wants to conjure.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Of course, anti-intellectualism has been brewing before tweets; well before the days when my 12-year-old nephew and the president joined forces to weigh in on crucial world issues.
    — New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • But the overarching theme of her work was decline — of our politics, the environment, truth, intellectualism.
    — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Kori is giving Chloe good banter, and Matthew’s faux intellectualism is turning Madison off.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Held up as the advance guard of French culture and intellectualism, French teachers had a near-sacred relationship with students.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The thread of anti-intellectualism is perhaps the most intriguing aspect of this nexus of polarization, as it is intertwined with a recurrent issue.
    — Mugambi Jouet, The New Republic, 26 June 2020
  • Virgo Pallas in Virgo has the capacity to heal and bring intellectualism to matters.
    — Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Image Fueled from the top and fed by social media, anti-intellectualism challenges the core of higher education.
    — New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • What Youngkin’s choice to raise this issue at this point in the campaign reveals is his understanding of the appeal of anti-intellectualism among a specific segment of voters.
    — NBC News, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Fans of trivia like to say that caring so deeply about these facts at a time of disinformation and anti-intellectualism is an act of defiance—that picking up trivia is a way to keep knowledge from being disappeared.
    — Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
  • The whole production feels like a safe bet, relying on pedigree with just enough of a whiff of upper-middlebrow intellectualism to satisfy, but not challenge, a ticket-buying audience.
    — Vulture, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The result is a take-no-prisoners battle between the dark forces of anti-intellectualism and the shining light of a child’s lust for learning — which makes this show unexpectedly timely and topical.
    — Punch Shaw, star-telegram.com, 15 June 2017
  • Adding to the mix, leaders of the Breslov movement emphasize euphoria and joy rather than the intellectualism of other Orthodox Jewish streams.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2020

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