For me, those are all learned kinds of violence".
The Jamaican-born poet writes a learned, lofty, rhetorical kind of poetry, a little like Tennyson.
The numbness is a learned response, a kind of specialization; she acknowledges that there are always unwieldy feelings that must be pushed to one side.
ALEC WILKINSON A (mostly private) landmark: The death of William Maxwell, in July of 2000, removing from the world a learned and genteel intelligence-graceful, kind, and capacious, leaving a certain belief about writing and its possibilities largely unrepresented.
This is kind of a learned talent, and it's heavily dependent on being more prepared than everybody else.
Coryate, c1577-1617, was "a kind of comedian, a learned buffoon, a butt for courtly wits and poets such as John Donne and Ben Jonson", as well as "an immensely tough and courageous traveller", who walked across much of Europe and Asia.
He adds, "The East was a place where the erotic and the poetic mingled, where, stripped of its taint of immorality, it could be the subject of a kind of connoisseurship, a learned cultivation".
Competition is a learned experience.
A learned and loving individual.
Maybe it's a learned behavior".
