On the purely intellectual side, the disqualifying circumstances are complexity and vagueness.

He had a sincere, although purely intellectual admiration for any real greatness.

Only he didn't, of course, apply his ideas: they were purely intellectual.

So far, she had been solving a purely intellectual problem in software management.

These scientific revolutions in the domain of ideas are purely intellectual.

It can commence as a purely intellectual interest or an antidote to stress.

On the purely intellectual plane, their progress had been less rapid.

His art is purely intellectual; he stands aloof, like a glacier.

But the argument is not all thought, is not purely intellectual.

His attitude toward her was purely intellectual, free of any sentimentality, utterly selfish.

By-and-by he began to lend her harder, that is, more purely intellectual books.

This synthesis is, therefore, not merely transcendental, but also purely intellectual.

Very seldom, if ever, has a man committed suicide for purely intellectual reasons.

Here, if nowhere else, Bressant's life of purely intellectual activity was a disadvantage.

And at the time, this was a purely intellectual problem.

The relations between Elsie and Hammond Brake were purely intellectual.