Sentence examples for a former classics scholar from inspiring English sources

Mr. Baraldo, a former classics scholar, is the chef, and with his staff, prepares inspired, original takes on traditional Tuscan and Roman country cuisine, made principally with local ingredients.

As a former classics scholar, Johnson is certainly aware that this political subtext to the Games of the Olympiad is as old as the event itself – which of course predates the ancient Roman form of electioneering satirised by Juvenal as "panem et circenses".

Mr. Wondrich, a former classics scholar and the drink correspondent for Esquire, was intrigued by the often-puzzling recipes in Thomas's book, and frustrated by Herbert Asbury, whose fancifully embellished version of Thomas's life, presented in a reprint of the 1887 edition of "The Bon-Vivant's Companion," wraps sparse facts in a thick layer of myth, conjecture and purple prose.

"There is a real hunger for information about this period, this history and these lost lives," said that friend, Chris Bartlett, a former classics scholar who has set out to rescue the memories of those lives, specifically 4,600 gay Philadelphia men who perished of AIDS in the 1980s and '90s.

"I won't be a dried-up Oxford don, anyhow": why Oscar Wilde rejected a career as a classics scholar.

A scholar of John Milton, he is a former classical-music columnist for Gramophone.

Daniel Mendelsohn is a classics scholar, a translator, a memoirist and a quick-witted literary and television critic.

Sylvie Weil, a French classics scholar, has decided to give Elvina her due.

(But a prominent classics scholar called the comparison daft, noting that Ajax "has such nobility of spirit").

Rather, as a classics scholar, he uses an aesthetic standard.

Johnson, a classics scholar, said: "I think he was only pretending.