Sentence examples for committed scholars from inspiring English sources

Our colleague and friend Sam Davies (professionally known as RSW Davies), who has died aged 66 of cancer, was a leading labour historian who documented the economic and social condition of Merseyside in the 1970s and 80s as part of a team of politically committed scholars.

He charts the rise of gangster films as "immigrant fables," captures the "coiled energy" of Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni and James Cagney's best performances and — because socially committed scholars pay little attention to them — dilates on comedies like "Bringing Up Baby".

Its economy had been twice ruined, first by Mao's Great Leap Forward, between 1958 and 1960, a step that precipitated a devastating famine and deaths by the million; and then by the calamitous Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, whicommittedted scholars and experts wholesale to the humiliation of manual labour, an act that squandered decades of intellectual capital.

He is, she points out, part of a generation of quietly committed scholars.

These cynical moves demonstrate a profound contempt for hardworking public university students and for dedicated professors, especially those who are temporary professors, men and women who are committed scholars with doctoral degrees working in insecure positions for disturbingly low pay.

Charles was a seriously committed scholar and practitioner of Buddhism, and was close to many of the senior abbots in temples around Vientiane and in Thailand.

Yet both sides can agree in seeing Cranmer as a committed scholar whose life showed the strengths and weaknesses of a very human and often under-appreciated reformer.

He was a committed administrator and scholar whose leadership shaped our School.

Mr. Geck, a professor at the University of Dortmund in Germany who has written extensively about Bach, is a committed and erudite scholar, and his "Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work" — published in German in 2000, the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, and now translated into English by John Hargraves — is a consummation of much of his own life and work.

When I was awarded my honorary doctorate last year I was impressed by the warm atmosphere and intellectual drive of the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, which is home to formidable scholars and committed Caribbeanists.

When I was awarded my honorary doctorate last year I was impressed by the warm atmosphere and intellectual drive of the department of literature, film, and theatre studies which is home to formidable scholars and committed Caribbeanists.