Sentence examples for academic obsession from inspiring English sources

The philosopher and classicist Alexander Nehamas has suggested that beauty is once again becoming an academic obsession as philosophers and critics resuscitate the beautiful as an ideal, recasting old philosophical arguments and forecasting new variants.

No wonder impact analysis has become almost an academic obsession to the new generation of economists -- especially those that want to change the world (which is most of them).

When a pseudo-academic essay diagnoses the entire world as being plagued by pseudo-academic obsessions, you might guess that, possibly, there is some observer bias at work.

It also refers to them as "young meisters" in order to counteract the country's obsession with academic laurels.

Humphrey added: "But because of the Coalition's obsession with academic scores and testing, we've now gone backwards.

Among the first results was confirmation that Google's obsession with academic performance was not always correlated with success at the company.

An article on Feb. 10 about the resignation of Germany's education minister over plagiarism allegations and about the German obsession with academic and professional titles, misstated the professional qualifications of Germany's vice chancellor, Philipp Rösler.

Its detractors also claim that in place of hardened politics, Demos provided the springboard for New Labour's equivalent of Nathan Barley culture, marked by academic gobbledygook and an obsession with trivia.

And his love affair with academic classicism had deepened into obsession.

If he can detach academic excellence from the national obsession with poshness, he will be remembered as a revolutionary.

After releasing his book The Rise of the Creative Class in 2002, urban academic Richard Florida kicked off an obsession with the role of young creatives in city regeneration.