Sentence examples for dry science from inspiring English sources

This is no dry science lesson but a dramatized vision of the contradictory forces pulling on Galileo, who was both a scientist and a devout Catholic.

"We have to move on from getting computing onto the curriculum, which is great, to making sure that it's not just another dry science," he said.

The dry science of the matter is that old growth in the East does not achieve quite the stupendous size and advanced age of the sequoias and firs of the West Coast because of differences in climate and species.

Although she is sticking to dry science in Heidelberg, her team currently consists of an impressively diverse group including computer scientists, physicists, biochemists, and chemists.

We have prevailed in several cases - such as protecting the Roan Plateau in Colorado - because of bone-dry science.

Jennifer Lawrence's narration gets so earnest you might wish she'd sunk at least one rum-and-coke beforehand, but elsewhere dry, rational science is mixed with piquant detail and playful soundtrack choices.

(Some of the long articles are good, but tend to be a little dry). The Science Times (published every Tuesday as part of the N.Y. Times) is also highly recommended.

Almost everything about this book – the instances, the writing, the passion, the lyrical imagery – confirms again and again that there is nothing dry about science, nothing heartless about research, and nothing unfeeling about the way a biologist looks at an animal.

My point had been that when every modern fictional detective is basically derived from Sherlock Holmes, and CSI and its ilk have milked dry the science of forensics – Holmes's USP – updating Conan Doyle to the 21st century seemed a somewhat redundant exercise.

Having taught statistics at Indiana University, author Greg Palast is well aware that a dry political science study of the subject would not have sold nearly 20,000 copies in its first four weeks.

I tried to write it more like a fast-paced literary history than a dry political-science text.