This woman's son was as much of an intellectual lightweight as his mother.

Analysts and some industry veterans joked about him as an intellectual lightweight.

Not to mention that Mr. Clinton was no intellectual lightweight either.

It is a pity the more intelligent Shadow Cabinet members are led by an intellectual lightweight.

But this academic turned politician from suburban Atlanta is neither an intellectual lightweight nor a blinkered provincial.

Although often portrayed as an intellectual lightweight, she owned a large library that contained the latest novels, plays, and philosophy.

The formal debates made him defensive, working overtime to counter the charge that he was a smirking intellectual lightweight.

The President's advisers, who think the supply-siders are intellectual lightweights, would only advance supply-side initiatives that were sure to die.

But though pleasant and a polished speaker, he's an intellectual lightweight--and he's certainly not a potential party leader.

Cameron is an intellectual lightweight and I'd like to think that the UK deserves better... but we probably don't.

In 1993, in her first book, Lady Thatcher merely suggested that the Prime Minister was an intellectual lightweight.

Before long, some Republican officials were questioning his abilities as a candidate and Mr. Bush himself was battling an image as an intellectual lightweight.

I was often asked - and not just by Republicans - if John was a mere figurehead at George and an intellectual lightweight.

What it indicates is that Dubya is not only the lightest of intellectual lightweights, but a fundamentally cavalier and unserious person.

He has had to overcome derision from some colleagues and critics who dismissed him early in his career as a dilettante and later as an intellectual lightweight.

She is not without critics, some of whom have described her as an intellectual lightweight whose rapid rise reflects the country's lack of political talent rather than her own ability.

At 14:28 14th Dec 2011, greatHayemaker wrote: jcb, it is a common argument of intellectual lightweights to accuse the other side of being inferior in some way.

Are there any ways we can get a Supreme Court with less intellectual lightweights and Anthony Kennedies, and more formidable and bench-worthy justices?

In 1970, President Nixon nominated Judge G. Harrold Carswell, considered an intellectual lightweight by many, for the Supreme Court.

His aides pressed him to deliver a series of six policy speeches in an effort to rebut attempts by Mrs. Clinton to portray him as an intellectual lightweight.

How did James Boswell, thought to be an intellectual lightweight, a libertine and a groupie, manage to produce the masterly "Life of Samuel Johnson" in 1791?

Brundage cast a blank ballot in the vote which selected the Irishman, considering him an intellectual lightweight without the force of character needed to hold the Olympic movement together.

Even George W. Bush periodically tries to counter his reputation as an intellectual lightweight by letting slip which best seller or foreign-policy tome adorns his nightstand.

But Mr. Bronfman could never outrun his detractors, who jeered him as an intellectual lightweight whose judgment was clouded by the star-studded atmosphere of Hollywood and the record business.

'Drifted With the Tide' Although the articles in The Mail are notably short on direct quotations, they make it clear that she regarded him as an intellectual lightweight and as politically naive.