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Farmer Hayes from whom he is renting a cottage cannot understand his tenant whom he calls a "pseudo-intellectual" and is astonished when Payne suffers an emotional breakdown after he witnesses the deliberate destruction of a hedgerow.

Nancy Graham Holm: Hill Farm by Miranda France Nancy Graham Holm 2011

Farmer Hayes from whom he is renting a cottage cannot understand his tenant whom he calls a "pseudo-intellectual" and is astonished when Payne suffers an emotional breakdown after he witnesses the deliberate destruction of a hedgerow.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nancy Graham Holm 2011

Hmm, the fact that you would ask a lay-person to give a pseudo-intellectual answer to a question about either theology or science instead of replying that they personally relied on the work of others in both those arenas that they trusted confirms my research on you, doctorate.

Think Progress » Profit-Seeking Palin Reportedly Rips CPAC As A Profiteering Convention 2010

Sullen countermodernity images the academic as the snide sophistic Last Man, pathetically, defensively retreated into what – all good sense knows – is pseudo-intellectual flummery.

Critique From HereNow Hal Duncan 2009

Krauthammer is a pseudo-intellectual neocon windbag.

Think Progress » DC Media Scoff At President Obama’s Substantive And Detailed Answer To Health Care Question 2010

Therefore it is just to lump the entire left — the academic, the media, the entire pseudo-intellectual spectra of leftism — in with the folly of communism and genocidal socialism.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Victims of Communism Day 2010

The whole idea has a somewhat pseudo-intellectual gloss, but it comes with a whole host of undefined terms that unfounded assumptions that, frankly, make the entire argument meaningless.

The Odds of God | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

Sullen countermodernity images the academic as the snide sophistic Last Man, pathetically, defensively retreated into what – all good sense knows – is pseudo-intellectual flummery.

Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

I feel sorry for you David, you have obviously been emotionally damaged, now you feel the need to take it out on authority figures by posting pseudo-intellectual that just serve to demonstrate your total lack of intelligence or any understanding of what is being discussed here.

Police Complaints; How Soon Is Now? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

When they do open up they engage in the kind of pseudo-intellectual conversations Allen parodied in Love and Death.

Wishing Woody had shot the narrator or, better yet, not shot Vicky Cristina Barcelona 2009