intellectual aura

There was a very fine intellectual aura about it.

The intellectual aura was particularly present on Edgars Lane.

All of them were eager to have his intellectual aura light up and fill up their basketball fieldhouses.

Neeson occasionally wears wire-rim glasses, which give him an intellectual aura that appeals to many women.

So faded has his intellectual aura become that it provides no immunity from the recent biographical accounts by members of his family.

On a Particular Variety of Epilepsy ('Intellectual Aura').

The first floor was occupied by the city library, where the constant flow of people carrying books, among them many teenagers and young adults, gave this drab building a merrier, more intellectual aura.

Some feel that an eclectic, populist architect like Mr. Stern isn't supposed to borrow from a figure like Mr. Eisenman, who has developed a distinctive formal vocabulary and an intellectual aura to go with it.

The West Side of Manhattan, on the other hand, has an intellectual aura, and downtown (a Greenwich Village nightclub for Holden, SoHo and TriBeCa for Igby) signifies creativity and abandon.

His renderings of Walt Whitman, Marcel Duchamp, the artist Louis Eilsehemius, and his friend, the composer Edgar Varese, are works of exceptional sensitivity to line, facial detail, and the intellectual aura of the sitter.

At 10 minutes to 4 each day - a time dictated by the 50-minute psychoanalytic hour - the staff gathered for tea and cookies in the clinic building, chatting with visitors like Margaret Mead, Aldous Huxley and Helen Keller, drawn by its intellectual aura.