Sentence examples for earnest scholars from inspiring English sources

Whenever I listen to that scene I think of the academy library; earnest scholars deciphering Latin texts and me hand-writing dialogue while noticing a beautiful book about Botticelli.

It is one of the paradoxes of Merton's career that he is such an earnest scholar of the mechanics of carefully crafted visual and written comedy – as a boy he collected Super 8 silent films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and projected them on to a bedsheet hung on his bedroom wall – yet his own extraordinary talents are best deployed as a virtuoso of winging it.

For rather than taking on one of the earnest young scholars, Seigl decides instead to hire a poor young woman with a tattoo on her face whom he discovers stacking shelves in his local bookshop.

They cheered earnest student speakers.

The earnest Lincoln scholar Paul Simon stood out in the Senate for his moral rectitude and his commitment to good government even as his state wallowed in scandal.

"I'm asking people to come to this—business people, labor people, NGOs, charitable groups—with a view toward giving them an opportunity to spend two days getting into depth" in his four policy areas, says the former president, ever the earnest Oxford scholar.

Since the self-immolations began in earnest last year, few Chinese scholars have attempted to grapple with the subject.

Earnest and thorough, the scholars' responses can also be playful, as in the answer Mark Crimmins (Stanford) supplies to the question: "Is there no such thing as bad art?" "Sure there's bad art," he writes.

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.

I also received a number of requests for copies of the Torah by some earnest burgeoning Muslim religious scholars.

The genre of the Importance of Being Earnest has been deeply debated by scholars and critics alike who have placed the play within a wide variety of genres ranging from parody to satire.