Sentence examples for earnest academic from inspiring English sources

By contrast, Sherry was short and full of nervous energy, an earnest academic whose periodic excursions into Greeneland left him bruised and battered from a series of afflictions, including gangrene, tropical diabetes and temporary blindness.

Farewell to the acoustically problematic tent in which the orchestra concerts take place, and perhaps also farewell not to the layers upon layers of earnest, academic discussions but to the not quite top-flight music making that has accompanied those discussions.

We know, for instance, that George Tesman, Hedda's new husband, is an earnest academic; but, at the very time when productions have rescued him from stereotypical buffoonery, Friel equips him with a comic aria in praise of his exquisitely embroidered slippers.

Journalists and non-profits with earnest, academic sounding names might appear a bit more credible, but their constant drum roll of fear and paranoia, undoubtedly appealing to a certain donor and book-buying base, also makes it hard to take their pronouncements at face value.

After days of debate, a motley pride of unlikely revolutionaries — bearded politicos, earnest academics, and multigrained environmentalists — collected their cigarettes and left Kasparov's apartment, divided and worn out.

When Laser asks them what the appeal is, his Moms fall over themselves to explain in earnest, vaguely academic grown-up speak: "Sometimes desire can be counter-intuitive, you know?

It features a 21st-century Anglo-Indian romance (with a superlative Saskia Reeves as an earnest, sexy academic), but the real core is the mathematical collaboration between GH Hardy, a shy, gifted, atheist Cambridge don, and Srinivasa Ramanujan, a Brahmin genius who thought that the multitudinous theorems that came into his head had no meaning unless they 'represented a thought of god'.

The show went on to make billions of dollars in syndication sales for Twentieth Century Fox TV, and spawned a movie and a merchandising industry, as well as numerous earnest analyses by academic scholars of mythology and a hit song by Catatonia.

The first of these think tanks were earnest translators of academic jargon and complex ideas.

Wynne is very funny about the earnest attempts of academics to recapture this.

FORGET economic statistics, academic journals and earnest college professors.