Sentence examples for comfortable academic from inspiring English sources

Smith grew up in a comfortable, academic family.

At this stage he could have settled into a comfortable academic life.

There's definitely a transition between a more comfortable academic life and the challenging real world of business, and the course is there to help them manage that transition".

With his bow tie and neatly trimmed white beard, Mr. Cooper looks the part — even the British accent does little to dispel the impression of a comfortable academic backwater.

By then his audacious decision in 1976 of giving up a comfortable academic life as a University of Bath professor to create a community action project in one of the city's poorest wards was well under way.

But not modern composers: they receive commissions from opera companies and symphony orchestras, guilt ridden for not being more involved in contemporary music, and hold down comfortable academic positions.

They are prosperous lawyers who defend dissidents knowing that it could cost them their jobs, and comfortable academics whose names on a human-rights petition could doom them to demotion or exile.

He still lives in the same comfortable, typically academic house he and his wife, Deborah, have shared for years in the Boston suburb of Wellesley.

Three years before, I had been a college sophomore in upstate New York, discontented with the comfortable routine of academic life.

Long comfortable in the academic realm, where his work anticipated the interactivity of the World Wide Web and cloud computing, he tried business.

Still, I do try to focus mainly on matters economic, with a few nods to quantitative political science, which isn't my field but has enough methodological affinity with economics that I feel fairly comfortable reading the academic papers.