Sentence examples for abandoning academic from inspiring English sources

A number of pro fessors are known to be con sidering abandoning academic life.

But he's also been accused of resting on his laurels of late, of abandoning academic pursuits in favour of celebrity.

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.

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

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.

It was 21 years ago that Adrian abandoned academic life to undertake that deeper commitment to the African community which she had recently begun to study.

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.