During this period, Bengal witnessed an intellectual awakening questioning the prevalent orthodoxies concerning the social status of women, marriage, the caste system and religion.

That summer, however, Atwater experienced an intellectual awakening and the beginnings of a lifelong passion for political warfare.

If Stellenbosch marked Smuts's intellectual awakening, it also was where he came to mature socially.

In the 19th century, there was intellectual and spiritual awakening in Constantinople.

He called the new scholarship on early Islam "a first step" to an intellectual awakening.

The drama turns on the teenager's sexual and intellectual awakening, which flows from her infatuation with her math teacher.

French revolutionaries in the 1790s began an intellectual awakening called the Enlightenment.

"My real intellectual awakening had come in the 60's," he told me.

Dr.Williams, it was said, 'was responsible for an intellectual awakening hitherto unknown'.

Iaroslav Lebedynsky grew up in a cultured and polyglot family who contributed to his intellectual awakening.