Sentence examples for dry and academic from inspiring English sources

The word "constitution" sounds dry and academic.

The idea might sound dry and academic to some.

Does contemporary European fiction favor the "dry and academic" over "the real"?

Research is dry and academic but this was active involvement with the particular cause we were following.

The rest of the exhibition is a bit dry and academic, and this last part is exuberant.

Back to his contention, then: that European literature does not wish to contend with "the real" and is "dry and academic".

But rather than subject you to dry statistics and academic reports, I'd like to introduce you to a Habitat-NYC family, who will tell you in their own words how their Habitat home was not only life-changing -- but also life-saving.

But there is little danger of Germany rehabilitating Hitler, even in the driest and most academic corners of historical theory.

She is a great writer and absolutely uncopyable.' Paulhan, he adds, could not write like that; his style was drier and more academic.

In the 1993 scenes Dave's isolation is interrupted by the arrival of Elaine (Annalee Jefferies), his wife, an actress who feels herself growing too old for the roles she wants to play; Peter Chris Nothh), a hard-drinking popular novelist; and Alan Robert Hogann), a dry, abstracted-seeming psychoanalyst and academic colleague of Dave's.

He takes on things – taste and class last time, now identity and some of its components (power, fame, religion and gender) – that could be dry, academic and dull, and he makes them not at all dull by spraying them with colour and life and ideas.