Sentence examples for a serious scholar from inspiring English sources

Such comments are unworthy of a serious scholar.

Even DeMint would not claim to be a serious scholar.

Her father was a lawyer and United States congressman who had been a serious scholar at Harvard.

Burke often pointed out that, while Stanley was a serious scholar of myth and ritual, Shirley's work embodied it.

Carter's emergence as a popular novelist has surprised people who knew him only as a professor and a serious scholar.

Eberstadt is regarded widely as a serious scholar of demographic trends; some even consider him a brilliant one.

He is, after all, a former professor of English at Oxford and a scrupulous, serious scholar of justified standing.

Marcus McCorison, a former president of the American Antiquarian Society, where Jay has lectured and performed, describes him as "a deeply serious scholar — I think he knows more about the history of American conjuring than anyone else".

After my presumed fifteenth birthday, when we withdrew to Hadjout, I became a stern and serious scholar.

Laurent is a lithe Rwandan schoolteacher who is both a merry prankster with the kids and serious scholar, and who never ceases to surprise me with his insights about Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. Madeleine is Rwandan, too, and as the mover shaker and president of the organization, is forever hurrying to fund-raising meetings, outfitted in a Western suit or native dress.

As Morgan's librarian, the putatively white Belle cultivated a reputation as "both society girl and serious scholar".