Word: intellection
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...race for the Senate, was supposedly in line for an Administration appointment as a consultant to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. From the floor of Congress, Downey gave a short, sarcastic encomium to Dornan's qualifications for the post. "Mr. Speaker," he began, "rarely have we seen an intellect like Bob's." Dornan never got the post...
...number of spectators walking out during previews "comes as no great surprise since this is an intellectually challenging play for the audience." I believe that I was misquoted, here as elsewhere in the article; if I actually used the word "intellectually," then I wasn't using my own intellect...
...audiences do not flee when they are challenged intellectually; on the contrary, they are fully prepared to grapple with just about any intellect we send their...
Against this complexity of emotion. Radford masterfully exploits the iciness of Richard Burton's Inner Party member, O'Brien. Whether torturing or consoling, Burton never moves a facial muscle or changes an inflection. He is the ideal Party member, a living synthesis of rose dogma spouted without intellect or feeling. Burton's coldly surreal performance is as horrifying as the best Becket...
They finally settled on a dark horse: Leonid Brezhnev, then the figurehead Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the rubber-stamp parliament. They did not anticipate his further advance. Aware of his rather low intellect, they were convinced that this unprepossessing man would be unable to hold his own against them...