He was fired on September 23, 1953 for supposed "intellectual arrogance" and "obvious contempt of Congress."
But of course it also leads to intellectual arrogance and narrowness of thought.
Flashes of intellectual arrogance and snobbery come with the territory.
He had the intellectual arrogance of an ideologue, and his conservatism served causes like Watergate.
"But there is such a thing as intellectual arrogance."
"You've got to make sure your intellectual arrogance doesn't get in the way of selling something," he said recently at a store outside Atlanta.
Rowse is further renowned for his irascibility and intellectual arrogance.
Americans mock the Frogs because we envy their intellectual arrogance, history, and glamour.
He suggested, also, that an undue concentration on the new natural philosophy might lead to a certain intellectual arrogance.
If Kerry loses this election, his intellectual arrogance will deserve a large part of the blame.