After three decades in an asylum he still talked intelligently about painting, read classical poetry, and played the violin.

If we are to talk about the matter intelligently at all, there is a fixed fact with which we must begin.

Those who failed to read it, he continued, would be unable to talk intelligently about contemporary sociological and political problems.

He seems to be looking for somebody who wants to talk intelligently; he's long dead and he can't do anything with half-naked wahinis.

I often think that the famous talkers of the last century would now find it difficult to talk intelligently.

"Smart enough to craft illusions that emulate us and talk to us intelligently?"

Hardly anybody can do this anymore: personal essays that talk intelligently about some external subject while revealing (and creating) the author's personality.

It's easy and they usually can talk intelligently on the subjects and people they cover.

How could he talk intelligently to this fantastic overlord without some inkling of what had really developed out here?

It was only for purposes of briefing me, so that I could come today prepare-d to talk intelligently and not waste your time.