intellectualists

'intellectualists' in the disparaging sense in which the word is now often used.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

Writers are intellectuals, and intellectuals are often intellectualists.

The Epic and the Past Hal Duncan 2008

Writers are intellectuals, and intellectuals are often intellectualists.

Archive 2008-03-01 Hal Duncan 2008

Why is it that the anti-intellectualists have managed to box us into this notion that if you hold only one opinion and never deviate (irrespective of facts) you're a Moral Upstanding Amurikan (tm) and if you either nuance your understanding of an issue or God forbid actually hold more than view on a topic as dictated by circumstance or a changing factual basis, you're a schizophrenic East Coast Elitist (tm)?

Where Are You, Angry Left? 2009

Much of the anti-Bush sentiment was sheer, bloody-minded elitism; it was the self-appointed Better People, the urban intellectualists and white-guilt apologists, who just couldn't get past the notion that some drawling Texan got to be President.

Man of the Year Walter Jon Williams 2009

Nevertheless, unlike the theory upheld by those intellectualists closer to the Aristotelian tradition in this case, the intellect itself is only a condition, and not the absolute cause, of the motion of the will.

Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

Anti-intellectualists -- the "Know-Nothings" -- are in full cry because each new scientific development or advance threatens a cozy way of life, or worse kills a myth or exposes an old lie.

September 2005 2005

Buridan's apparent compromise is to argue (with the intellectualists) that human happiness ultimately consists in an intellectual act,

John Buridan Zupko, Jack 2006

Upon these intellectualists, which are notwithstanding commonly taken for the most sublime and divine philosophers, Heraclitus gave a just censure, saying: — “Men sought truth in their own little worlds, and not in the great and common world;” for they disdain to spell, and so by degrees to read in the volume of

The Advancement of Learning 2003

It is clear that anti-intellectualists would not agree with the second clause in this sentence and would put a higher value on instinct than on rationality.

THERIOPHILY GEORGE BOAS 1968