But the improver is into intellectual nourishment on a lavish scale.
Although he came to love the vast reaches of Mongolia, he also missed intellectual nourishment in a political climate that denigrated learning.
What they needed was continuing intellectual nourishment.
His parents, both physicians, offered abundant intellectual nourishment.
There are few analogues to great business schools or to military academies for providing intellectual nourishment in education management.
In the debate about the war in Iraq, they not only provided intellectual and emotional nourishment to President Bush's Democratic opposition-they also brought aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein.
They are not intended to give intellectual nourishment to the underprivileged of Stamford.
Arts organizations, while providing New York City with entertainment and intellectual and spiritual nourishment, also bring more revenue to the city than any other source.
The food curator, Daphne Derven, calls it "intellectual nourishment."
But it is foolish to look for great intellectual nourishment from a parasite, just as it would be to expect the delicacies of romantic love in the company of a hired prostitute.