(n.) The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Johnson wrote that "a clerisy of self-appointed internet witch doctors went completely loco – or perhaps boko is the word" when footage emerged of Jeremy Clarkson using the N-word.
Intelligentsia
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike the vecindades, which remained segregated and were always a space for the working classes and urban lumpen — even if they were appropriated as icons and romanticised by the middle and upper classes — the azoteas began to be inhabited by members of the middle-class intelligentsia during the early 20th century.
(2) Although the majority of people consider Belarusian their native language, the language is spoken primarily in rural areas and by the intelligentsia.
(3) His first birthday party in Johannesburg ended with the white liberals promising, as they said farewell to what was termed "the black intelligentsia", never again to call a black man "boy".
(4) I think I was lucky because I came from a family who had a system of values, a very educated family, a sort of intelligentsia family.
(5) Open Mon-Wed 12.30pm-1am, Thurs-Sat 12.30pm-1.30am, closed Sundays Bar The Clinic Facebook Twitter Pinterest Owned by Chile’s top satirical magazine, The Clinic , and covered in its political cartoons, this infamous bar is where the intelligentsia comes to bicker over beers.
(6) As “the big four” in specialty coffee companies – Stumptown, Blue Bottle, Intelligentsia, Counter Culture - attract millions in investments and investor interest (Counter Culture, for instance, remains independent), expanding the number of people who care about what is special, it means we’ll have to grapple with how to expand quality and sustainability while minimizing the environmental impacts of mass, specialty coffee productions.
(7) According to Kalhor, the pressure is mostly on musicians and the section of the intelligentsia which is well known and has followings among the younger generation.
(8) It is one cause of the current exodus of its intelligentsia.
(9) As far as politicised literature and literary criticism went, the Russian intelligentsia were spoilt for choice.
(10) This force has repeatedly changed its social milieu and its name through the ages: the Decembrists and the Narodniks of the 19th century turned into the intelligentsia and the dissidents of the Soviet period.
(11) She became one of the “ pensadores rubios ”, as Novo used to call, tongue-in-cheek, members of the American intelligentsia who were always “discovering” Mexico.
(12) Simon adds: “The liberal intelligentsia, this north London liberal elite, don’t have to live with the problem.
(13) The highest grade of acceptance of semen donation for heterologous insemination was shown by students living in cities and coming from the families of the intelligentsia.
(14) The energetic new prime minster signed the Kyoto protocol , delivered a long-awaited apology to the Stolen Generations (Indigenous people forcibly separated from their parents) and summoned the nation's adoring intelligentsia to a razzle-dazzle "2020 summit".
(15) In which case, instead of Putin, the more relevant case study might be former President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood leader whose brief tenure was defined both by chronic self-sabotage and by the active resistance of the Egyptian bureaucracy and intelligentsia, which rendered governance effectively impossible.” Liberalism in the Balance Publication: Bleeding Heart Libertarians Author : Steve Horwitz is an academic economist at St Lawrence University in New York.
(16) As the playwright David Edgar put it: "Whether they like it or not, the current defectors [his term for those liberals who criticise extremist Islamic leaders] are seeking to provide a vocabulary for the progressive intelligentsia to abandon the poor."
(17) Solzhenitsyn had achieved the miracle of pleasing his country's leaders, its critically minded intelligentsia, and the broad mass of his readers.
(18) And indeed, the 1920s in Mexico are a period of intense sexual exploration among the intelligentsia, to which Weston surely contributed, but which he also captured and aestheticised through his lens.
(19) In it he combined the virtues of the inter-war European Marxist intelligentsia – a cosmopolitan breadth and an awareness of deep structures – with a more British interest in historical narrative and elegant writing.
(20) "This shows that the intelligentsia and leadership in North Korea are adapting to a market economy – with, by the way, Russia's help," he said.