Even when she disliked a particular Indian custom, she often found herself engaged intellectually.

Now more than ever, if you want to engage intellectually, your best bet isn't a screen-unless it's on a Kindle or a Nook.

But like the Rutgers festival, it was meant to be more fun than intellectually engaging.

"Plot tries to engage intellectually, but that's not how an audience responds," says Mr. Boam.

Plot tries to engage intellectually, but that's not how an audience responds," he said, adding, "I want emotional reaction, not intellectual engagement.

It does prod your thoughts however, and keeps you intellectually engaged.

We have to intellectually engage kids.

Pay attention, and you find yourself intellectually engaged; they're stoking awareness, activating listeners.

Its mission is to prepare its students to be "committed Jews who are well-rounded, broadly educated, intellectually engaged, and caring members of their community."

After 1998, when I returned to The Times, I saw him less frequently, but I always found him warm and intellectually engaging.