Sentence examples for autodidacticism. from inspiring English sources

Self-education (or autodidacticism) requires the utmost discipline – plus curiosity.

He has what a library curator called "a thoroughly commercial autodidacticism".

But autodidacticism of the kind of which Gray is a supreme example is not uncommon in Glasgow, where the benefits of book-learning and technical ability are widely held to be self-evident.

While many authors seek inspiration from unusual sources, and have their own rituals surrounding the processes of reading and writing, DeWitt's autodidacticism makes him highly unusual – particularly today, when so many American authors have studied creative writing (an academic discipline DeWitt didn't know existed before being published).

"Cumming sides with Snare's petit bourgeois autodidacticism against the snooty expertise of the art establishment," found Jonathan Beckerman in the Sunday Times, but the result is "two half-books that don't combine to make a whole".

Powell, who sent The New Yorker a selection of Combs's images last December — the magazine later had dozens of rolls developed — has indulged her student's autodidacticism, a trait that some educators might mistake for disobedience.

So does de la Pava's old-school autodidacticism mean that his work is uncontaminated by influence, something new under the literary sun?

Jay's fruitful combination of autodidacticism and free-lance scholarship is itself a wonderful phenomenon.

Both Keisha Blake and Rodney Banks sounded the "t" and the "s" in this name, not knowing any better: such are the perils of autodidacticism.

For those who do, and who don't mind a little autodidacticism, there's a cheaper way than M.F.A. programs: the reference shelves practically groan under the weight of writing advice books.