Sentence examples for academic it was from inspiring English sources

"And as an academic, it was important to him to write not just for academics".

In the words of John Radcliffe-Maud, senior mandarin and Oxford academic, it was "amateurish, fumbling and embryonic".

"My interest in the Great Plate Count Anomaly was ninety-nine per cent academic; it was a big intellectual challenge".

However, the Proms Plus Literature section in the interval almost had me turning off: rarefied, academic, it was the type of wordy Radio 3 analysis that wrings music dry, despite the section being recorded in front of a live audience.

Led by David Halpern, an outstanding policy academic, it was formed after the 2010 general election, with a mandate to find smarter ways for government to get the public on side.

Though changes were made to make this even more academic, it was still met with the hostility of Notre Dame which is specific to queer and transgender students.

Alexei Ratmansky, interview with Nora Fitzgerald, Washington Post, 2007 "The St Petersburg style is cooler, it's more academic, it's classicism in its highest level.

For the would be academic it's the PhD.

Academic: It's just... a lot of corduroy.

But that's academic: it's likely to be drunk up fast.

Today, explained a Russian academic, "it's simply no longer fashionable to speak positively of Putin".