Sentence examples for brilliant lectures from inspiring English sources

Q. Do you hear a lot from professors worried that having so many brilliant lectures available online will eventually do away with their jobs? A. Absolutely.

It's a very bad reason to stop a 79-year-old man who has all the qualifications, including [the fact that] he would write brilliant lectures.

Writing on NYTimes.com last year, Olivia Judson, the biologist and author, called the evolution rap show "one of the most astonishing, and brilliant, lectures on evolution I've ever seen".

Mr. Milosz, with his bushy eyebrows, herringbone tweed jacket, wry humor and brilliant lectures was soon a popular figure on campus, especially in his seminars and lectures on Dostoyevsky.

Gertrude Stein, in her brilliant "Lectures in America" (1935), wrote, "At the theatre there is the curtain and the... emotion of you on one side of the curtain and what is on the other side of the curtain are not going to be going on together.

I'd given a "brilliant" lecture at Oxford, although I was asked to leave a library beforehand because "your appearance is disturbing some of the members".

Mary Beard's brilliant lecture on the silencing of women throughout history "Oh Do Shut Up Dear!" covers this cultural phenomenon in detail.

For two to three decades the evidence has grown that active student engagement with material, not brilliant lecture presentations, is the key to learning.

But it's a brilliant lecture, "combing through the family album of our nation", picking out a painting here, a cartoon, a photograph to dwell on, because of what it says about the subject, the artist, the age, the country.

I recently heard the novelist Hilary Mantel deliver a brilliant lecture at the British Museum, in which she asserted that, at the time of the French Revolution, the scandal of the monarchy "focussed the rays of misogyny" upon a single body, that of Marie Antoinette.

In advance of "A Brief History of Mine," a new PBS documentary about him, coming up later this year, that includes interviews with the actor Jim Carrey, the businessman Richard Branson and the astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Mr. Hawking will speak at the Brilliant Lecture Series.