Sentence examples for abandoned academic from inspiring English sources

Mr. Martin has not entirely abandoned academic life.

He abandoned academic life in 1991 to become a subsistence farmer and militant pacifist and ecologist.

Erastus Salisbury Field studied for a short time with Samuel F. B. Morse in New York, then abandoned academic art.

That work was made in Rome in the 1850s, when Degas was still under the influence of Ingres and before he abandoned academic painting and became an Impressionist.

Heller abandoned academic life two years later, spending the next decade working in advertising for Henry Luce's Time, Look and McCall's magazines.

On the other hand, many critics abandoned academic careers after coming to realise that they wanted their scope to be wider rather than deeper.

Abandoning academic study, they worked together outdoors in the forest of Fontainebleau, where contacts with the Barbizon painters Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña and Charles-François Daubigny strengthened their direction.

Encouraged by her father, a truck driver, and mother, a childcare worker, the straight-A student is now at a top business school, bucking the trend for local kids being pushed by middle school to abandon academic choices in favour of professional training schemes for subjects such as manual labour or administration.

One of Northern Ireland's top performing Catholic grammar schools is abandoning academic selection.

NEW YORK CITY Impostor syndrome the feeling that you've somehow tricked people into thinking that you're competent, while believing that your success is the result of luck and others overlooking your flaws is a widely reported phenomenon in academia, especially in graduate school, and is believed to play an important part in some women's decision to abandon academic careers.

(Those who had started a Ph.D. with an academic career in mind tended to continue with their original plan, though a few more women than men abandoned the academic path. Overall, women left the academic track more often than men, and they did so sooner than men, often right after the Ph.D).