Word: intellection
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...result of this type of education ... is a high-school graduate anxious to criticize his city's garbage-disposal system but perhaps incapable of interpreting a city ordinance on the subject. Yet he will not for a moment doubt his own capabilities, for his intellect has never been really challenged...
...Dante. Above all, dogging the steps of the other Messrs. Eliot, was the increasingly cynical young man who wrote verse as polished and as sharp as a Guardsman's sword. He created a gallery of unforgettable characters: Mr. Apollinax, the faun-like, fragile embodiment of the dry intellect (whose "laughter tinkled among the teacups"); Apeneck Sweeney, the dumb incarnation of a brutal age; Grishkin, the musky, eternally feline feminine...
...Pots, like all other forms of art," Leach once explained, "are human expressions . . . projections of the minds of their creators . . . Good hand craftsmanship is directly subject to the prime source of human activity, whereas machine crafts, even at their best, are activated at one remove-by the intellect...
...learned when to fight and when to compromise. Two of the Senators he most respects are Republicans: New Hampshire's able and liberal Charles Tobey, and Ohio's conservative Robert Taft, whom Douglas regards as a Bourbon, but also as a man of honesty and intellect...
...guess a picture is good when it just don't irritate the eye. Poetry, imagination, intellect, temperament, oh they can come in on a later train...