But as he writes in "The Ambassador", which animates a child's-eye view of the universe of toys, in which he is all-powerful but must inevitably remain an outsider: "at heart I still adhere / to the maxim that, through a studious / reading of chaos, we may / arrive at the grammar of civilisation".
After an illness at 15 permanently affected his health, he became introspective and studious; his reading of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, which confirmed his own observations of nature, had a particularly strong impact.
Studious voters have read up on his biography: Midwestern boy goes to Harvard, wins a Rhodes scholarship, becomes his hometown's mayor, serves in Afghanistan — then comes out as gay and acquires a husband.
Ali's expression was deeply studious, as if he were reading Nachman's heart and finding reciprocity there, a flow of sympathy equivalent to his need.
Ok, I'll stop with the description but let me also tell you that the other day I was having lunch with a very studious friend of mine and she asked me what I was reading.
"This was an individual that was very well read, a studious person, that studied the policing system, knew the policing system, knew about his craft". "He's a serial killer," Hylton said.
To recap: a studious political-science Ph.D. wishes to instruct the upper echelon of American leadership in the benefits of reading several thousand pages of history, and, after his initial efforts prove unavailing, assigns a carefully curated set of course materials to the most august institution in American journalism.
I read them with studious devotion and headlong glee.
In these two locations, Milton spent approximately six years in studious retirement, during which he read Greek and Latin authors chiefly.
"I've always been a very studious man, not an outstanding student, but I read a lot, especially history.
