Sentence examples for Not academic that from inspiring English sources

You know you're not academic; that you don't find reading and writing fascinating ways of spending time; yet you're energetic, hardworking, gifted at practical analysis and problem-solving and increasingly anxious to get on.

When I wrote that some of Gladwell's stories are over-smoothed, my problem was not that Gladwell was not academic, or that he had too much messy reality in his books.

It wasn't the academics that were her concern, or her ability to balance schoolwork with two intense extracurriculars; it was that she didn't have friends who helped her feel less lonely.

He contended that they had specific needs, both social and academic, that might not be met in most other schools.

"That's not academic," I said.

"They said, 'That is not academic research,' " McLoughlin told me.

The performance abounded in many clear points of Balanchine style: points that feel not academic — even though they are — but simply and infectiously dancey.

"It's inconceivable that there would be anything so complex in the portfolio of an academic that wouldn't be quickly resolved" months ago, this person said.

One audience member, Kara Glennon, an Obama supporter, said gas prices were "not academic" for her, given that she makes less than $25,000 a year.

The timing is not academic: association rules say that if the rating is calculated after the completion of championship play, points earned by the disqualified player will stand.

What affects academics that does not affect teachers, lawyers or city traders?