Sentences with phrase «intellectual sparring matches»

The reality of what transpired in the months and years leading up to that fateful match in May 1997, however, was actually more evolutionary than revolutionary — a Rocky Balboa — like rise filled with intellectual sparring matches, painstaking progress and a defeat in Philadelphia that ultimately set the stage for a triumphant rematch.

It's a tremendous intellectual sparring match between the two, all about religion and philosophy, yet it starts innocently enough with an enquiry about Marcus's social life.

Not exact matches

Honestly, a man of your intellectual stature and prowess in logic needs a sparring partner with whom you are more evenly matched.

What they got in those brief minutes at the end of each program was less debate than verbal sparring matches between two erudite intellectuals attacking the political philosophy and public record of the other and they were out for blood.