intelligentsia

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an educated and intellectual elite

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One should herd the entire intelligentsia into a mine and then blow it sky-high. Heinrich Müller

He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia. Mikhail Bulgakov

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests. Ralph Nader

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. Hu Shih

All the left wing intelligentsia are coming to look to me for protection and I will give it wholeheartedly in return for their aid in the rearmament of Britain. Winston Churchill

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider. Diane Abbott

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