Mr. te Velde, now 44, is just as optimistic and intensely intellectual as Ms. Chang.

Mr. Friedman is an intensely intellectual lawyer who joined Goldman, Sachs in 1966.

He went the intensely intellectual .

He went the intensely intellectual route, first euphemistically referring to the breakup as "events" and referencing Kurt Vonnegut.

"It was quite an intensely intellectual dialogue," Mr. Reich said in a telephone interview today.

These were formidably erudite poet-scholars for whom the reading and writing of poetry was an intensely intellectual pursuit.

Parks also praised Malcolm's "intensely intellectual style" as well as her "sharpness and creativity."

Yet, for all his renown, what appears not to have changed is Mr. Calatrava's intensely intellectual approach to architecture.

The climate that shaped him is intensely intellectual.

Orszag certainly had a lot in common with Stiglitz's academic mien, having grown up in an intensely intellectual family in Lexington, Massachusetts, outside Boston.