Sentence examples for academic breed from inspiring English sources

Richard Griffiths does some nice work as an old-style archaeologist, conveying with just the occasional melancholy expression the wistfulness of an academic breed being swept aside by new methods.

The animal activist Mary Roberts, who was known for her work in presenting a less hostile image of the devil to the public and wrote about it in academic journals, bred a pair at Beaumaris Zoo which she named Billy and Truganini in 1913.

"Almost everyone who comes out of an academic environment is bred pretty strongly to believe that publication of scientific data and having your individual name on [a publication] is a very valuable thing," says Carter.

Derek was a rare breed of academic.

Forming before our eyes is a new breed of academic fat cat.

Coetzee is that rare breed, an academic who is also a world-class writer, and this latest collection is informed as much by the novelist's keen eye as it is by the theorist's obsessions.

Like the biologist E. O. Wilson, Dr. Greenberg is that rare breed of academic, a synthesizer who derives patterns from the work of many specialists, an exercise the specialists do not always welcome.

"Coetzee is that rare breed, an academic who is also a world-class writer, and the latest collection is informed as much by the novelist's keen eye as it is by the theorist's obsessions," James Shapiro wrote here in 2001.

It has bred several academic disciplines and many sci fi novels and films.

Policymakers and academics are different breeds who speak different languages.

Proponents of small high schools say they have fewer discipline problems and higher graduation rates than large schools, which they say breed violence and academic failure.