The tones were anguished rather than outright hostile because of Mr. Muller's intellectual prestige; his response was a patient reiteration that this was simply the way he saw the piece.

Anyone who thinks that Mr. Levine commissioned the Babbitt concerto out of some sense of obligation or merely to enhance his intellectual prestige does not understand him as an artist.

For Offenbach, this opera represented a shot at intellectual prestige, which, for all his success, he coveted badly.

Written in a strict 12-tone idiom, which no longer enjoys the intellectual prestige it did at midcentury, the opera remains one of the few products of that style that have won nonsectarian audiences.

But the composers with intellectual prestige were in the universities, training the next generation, and it was a tense time.

Their work carried less intellectual prestige than that of the political economists.

But in the fast-moving societies of the capitalist West, Marxism has lost the intellectual prestige it attained after the war through thinkers like Sartre.

In the end, roughly 5,000 sets were sold but Black considered himself well-rewarded in intellectual prestige.

That all the intellectual prestige of the Church should be lent to the support of vagueness, futility, and deliberate evasion?

By the 1960's, the Serialists commanded intellectual prestige and held influential academic posts.