Sentence examples for autodidactic from inspiring English sources

At its weekly meetings, autodidactic Labour historians reminded us that constitution and conscience absolved all obligation to respond to the wishes of the men and women who worked to guarantee our elections.

Schmidt was a man of vast autodidactic learning and Rabelaisian humour.

That they managed to keep up was testament to the baptism of fire faced by early glam-rock adherents, a trial that both inspired lasting devotion and sowed the seeds of autodidactic discovery.

You might say that demonstrated the strong autodidactic streak that ran through a few of us, though it also showed we had very little money (EU treaties came free): our total editorial budget was less than The Sunday Times spent on marketing alone; we had to be creative with what we had.

"I came from that kind of autodidactic west-coast tradition, I guess.

The vision is uncannily like Tom Wolfe's in both tone and subject matter: wonderfully sharp, broad mockery of metropolitan manners combined with weird autodidactic philosophizing and an extraordinary idealization of a nonmetropolitan class of heroes.

What shows in Roston's book, as in the world at large, are the success stories, not the wreckage — the aspiring filmmakers who remained video clerks too long, people with artistic temperament who petrified themselves in autodidactic movie scholarship and stifled or spoiled their most original impulses.

I had the great benefit of attending a really crappy Jesuit high school, which gave my style of learning an autodidactic turn, hiding out in used bookstores and reading randomly, with absolutely no sense of systematic knowledge.

It's not because of successful educational outreach; it's because video technology and the Internet liberated production, distribution, and criticism at more or less the same time as home video and, especially, DVDs made a spontaneous and autodidactic classicism readily available.

As soon as word about their autodidactic methods got out — as it did when their first films were released, in 1959 and 1960 — the New Wave begat the revivalism of Peter Bogdanovich; the film-school generation of Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas; and the next film-school generation of Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee.

Kate had been reading the clinical literature, though, and felt autodidactically certain that the Payne Whitney professionals were minimizing something in plain sight: his death-trip history, considered alongside the "conspicuous" spending on coats, ties, shirts, and shoes, represented, at the least, she thought, a mixed-state depression.