pseudo-intellectual

• “Farmer Hayes from whom he is renting a cottage cannot understand his tenant whom he calls a "pseudo-intellectual" and is astonished when Payne suffers an emotional breakdown after he witnesses the deliberate destruction of a hedgerow.”

  The Huffington Post: Nancy Graham Holm: Hill Farm by Miranda France

• “I feel sorry for you David, you have obviously been emotionally damaged, now you feel the need to take it out on authority figures by posting pseudo-intellectual that just serve to demonstrate your total lack of intelligence or any understanding of what is being discussed here.”

  Police Complaints; How Soon Is Now? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

• “The whole idea has a somewhat pseudo-intellectual gloss, but it comes with a whole host of undefined terms that unfounded assumptions that, frankly, make the entire argument meaningless.”

  The Odds of God | Heretical Ideas Magazine

• “Sullen countermodernity images the academic as the snide sophistic Last Man, pathetically, defensively retreated into what – all good sense knows – is pseudo-intellectual flummery.”

  Critique From HereNow

• “When they do open up they engage in the kind of pseudo-intellectual conversations Allen parodied in Love and Death.”

  Wishing Woody had shot the narrator or, better yet, not shot Vicky Cristina Barcelona

• “Therefore it is just to lump the entire left — the academic, the media, the entire pseudo-intellectual spectra of leftism — in with the folly of communism and genocidal socialism.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Victims of Communism Day

• “Hmm, the fact that you would ask a lay-person to give a pseudo-intellectual answer to a question about either theology or science instead of replying that they personally relied on the work of others in both those arenas that they trusted confirms my research on you, doctorate.”

  Think Progress » Profit-Seeking Palin Reportedly Rips CPAC As A Profiteering Convention

• “Krauthammer is a pseudo-intellectual neocon windbag.”

  Think Progress » DC Media Scoff At President Obama’s Substantive And Detailed Answer To Health Care Question

• “February 19th, 2010 at 3: 11 pm smidget (presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield) says: hippie, pseudo-intellectual progressive movement”

  Think Progress » ‘Impeach Obama’ Advocate At CPAC Concedes Movement Is Based Largely On ‘Policy Differences’

• “This guy is the biggest pseudo-intellectual in government ciscoguy”

  President Obama pulls a Barbara Streisand? | RedState

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