Sentence examples for academic footnotes from inspiring English sources

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It comes in two volumes and is 1,966 pages long; it weighs 10kg and it contains more than 3,500 largely academic footnotes.

The dry and academic footnotes citing the latest psychological scholarship on homosexual behaviour (including one fictionalised report) are set in sharp contrast to the vibrant and complex character of Molina that they purport to explain.

They exist as something more than the usual academic footnotes, but more like an annotated bibliography.

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A scrupulous academic footnote contains a reminiscence of a concert at the Albert Hall when Sting traded snatches of song with the audience in a "spontaneous litany".

With Charlie Daniels tricking Janmaat to shoot a stoppage-time third, left-footed, for Bournemouth, that Pérez-Shelvey cameo was to prove an academic footnote.

Though that has now happened and Sunday's match at home to Tottenham Hotspur is a mere academic footnote, the former Liverpool and Real Madrid manager has been almost overwhelmed by the warmth extended to him on Tyneside and is acutely aware of the potential at one of England's doziest sleeping giants.

The emergency legislation sunsetted at the end of 2016 but the legal fight is not just an academic footnote as DRIPA has since been replaced with another controversial UK law that's also been branded a 'Snooper's charter' (aka: The Investigatory Powers Act).

Admittedly they reduced the deficit but the consequences stemming from the moment Harry Kane and Eric Dier combined to free Érik Lamela down the left were destined to serve as the most academic of footnotes.

In fact most academics provide footnotes because they don't presume that theirs is the last word on a subject and want to encourage their readers and their students to delve further.

Certainly, when James footnotes academic studies his use of them is pretty gung-ho.

But look beyond the book's occasionally absurd academic language, and footnotes that cite Michel Foucault and Pamela Des Barres with equal facility, and you'll find a cogent and often perceptive look at the scene that yielded Radiohead, Portishead and the Futureheads.

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