For me, the experience had started as an intellectual exercise.

It is never an intellectual exercise which leaves everything the same.

Computer games, it seems, are a form of intellectual exercise.

Asking the questions is more than just an intellectual exercise.

That would have made the challenge a job rather than an intellectual exercise.

The rest of the time he was happy to debate, conduct the intellectual exercise.

They don't live in the communities they're meant to serve - it's just an intellectual exercise to them.

"There was not a lot of intellectual exercise in the creating the design."

But right now, it mattered only as an intellectual exercise.

"We don't want to just go in ourselves as some kind of intellectual exercise."