Sentence examples for dutiful academic from inspiring English sources

The objective was a complicated tracking shot that followed Donna Hanover, playing the dutiful academic wife to Mr. Gray's physics professor, as she opened the door for Ms. Taylor and Ms. Love, and ushered them into a cocktail party.

TO Alicia Estrada, a professor of Central American studies who was ejected from a screening of Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" last month after grilling him about the historical accuracy of that Maya epic, which he directed, she was not a "heckler," as Mr. Gibson's representatives called her, but a dutiful academic asking of him what she asks of students in her classroom.

Turns out there's something dutiful and academic about using the bully pulpit of a final show to play huge and sometimes unpopular chunks of a band's catalog, including at least one lumpy number that Mr. Murphy said the band was giving its premiere live — and, of course, dispensing with.

Poetry isn't something difficult or dutiful, not academic, not a test.

Studying for her literature degree, she had learned how to analyze the words and the themes; she had worked dutifully on her essay style, imitating academic articles.

Academic disputes – Hobsbawm's with Hugh Trevor-Roper, for instance – are dutifully monitored by the secret watchers.

As a diligent, routinely skillful copyist, Ms. Gilje remains a kind of dutiful daughter, while her conceptual interventions don't venture much beyond the pale of academic respectability.

I asked dutiful questions about the history, and the future, of desserts, and Ferran responded instantly, in Spanish, not with the guarded caution of his younger brother or the academic certainty of Jordi Butrón but with eager, nodding, flowing eloquence.

I was the dutiful father.

Viard was plainspoken and dutiful.

Dutiful but unenthusiastic.