Sentence examples for academic posturing from inspiring English sources

Its loudest academic posturing emanates from the so-called university without students, the think tank, invented by the Brookings Institution in 1927 and a major Washington growth industry since the 1970's.

Though Mr. Conrad -- the author of earlier books like "Imagining America" and "Modern Times, Modern Places" -- often undermines the points he wants to make with pretentious academic posturing, he demonstrates a thoroughgoing knowledge of Hitchcock's films and manages in these pages to do a first-rate job of situating the director's work in the context of modernist, post-World War I art.

That sound turned out to be a fusion of orchestral avant-garde and minimal electro, with probing lyrics meant to open conversations about late capitalism and gender specifically male sexuality and vulnerability without the drippy academic posturing you'd expect from the subjects.

Instead of copying traditional academic postures, Rodin preferred his models to move naturally around his studio (despite their nakedness).

It is true that he is guilty of academic vanity and paternalistic posturing; but, because we have seen what happens between him and Carol, we know that her charges are false.

In its mixing of academic dance with the postures of modern life, it is said to have ushered in the so-called neoclassical ballet of the later twentieth century.

If Paul Krugman sees a difference between Ben Bernanke's academic writing and his current posture, maybe that's because Bernanke is no longer an academic, free to lob rhetorical missiles toward policy makers, which happens to be precisely what Krugman is doing.

RICHARD T. BELL, M.D., PH.D., New York, posted on nytimes.com EARTH TO BEN BERNANKE If Paul Krugman sees a difference between Ben Bernanke's academic writing and his current posture, maybe that's because Bernanke is no longer an academic, free to lob rhetorical missiles toward policy makers, which happens to be precisely what Krugman is doing.

There is a lot of theory here, a lot of posturing, a lot of academic control freakery.

Take out the posturing, and you could have an academic book, an anthropological study.

But this is more than made up for by its considerable substantive virtues: it is straightforward, accessible and sensible, free of the ideological cant and posturing that often mar even serious academic studies of racial issues.