Sentence examples for academic but it from inspiring English sources
Academic: But it was strategic: scatter production.
Such a distinction may seem academic, but it matters greatly in a country with many types of political control.
We were worried it might be too academic, but it turned out to be just the thing for our son.
"It forces you to reconsider — wow, this is going to come off really stupid or at least academic — but it forces you to reconsider the object that you're reading and what it is as a fundamental object.
Mr Lacorne calls champions of this second tradition the Neopuritans.The professor's scheme may sound academic, but it offers a far more nuanced guide to America's religious divisions than the insults politicians trade in the election season.
The memoir is strong on the professional excitement of his early years as an academic, but it assiduously sidesteps the rivalries and disputes that mark even the most unremarkable scientific careers, let alone one as distinguished as Dawkins's.
It is too bad that Derrick Caracter had so little interest in academics, but it was cruel and exploitative to force him to pretend to be a student before he could chase his dream.
Worsley waved piss-pots and diaries before various academics, but it was only when she presented us with Charles I's orthopaedic boots, designed to ensure his legs didn't fail him during important ceremonies, that we glimpsed the all too frail figure that was often required to bear the crown.
It is common for a cult series to attract the attentions of academics, but it used to be that shows bedded in for a couple of seasons before lofty anthologies such as The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television, or Sex and the Slayer: a Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan, evolved.
We've heard this again in the wake of Professor Stephen Hawking's laudable decision to withdraw from Israel's Presidential Conference in response to requests from Palestinian academics – but it would be hard to think of a more unconvincing position as far as Palestinians are concerned.
NSA's intrusion into citizen's private lives may have roiled academics, but it has remained unclear what the spy agency was learning from phone metadata.
