Sentence examples for exactly academic from inspiring English sources
Neither the Howie nor the Rookie is exactly academic, yet they are steeped in a delighted linguistic self-consciousness.
Jared Bernstein, a former economist for Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., conceded that "tax cuts for the rich" was "not exactly academic prose," but he said the analysis did examine policy time lags and controlled for several outside factors, including monetary policy.
Not exactly academic journals (although Gastronomica is published by the University of California Press), publications such as these provide a space in which original scholarship and elegant writing can meet on equal terms (usually, you have to plump for one or the other).
Ponyboy is not exactly an academic boy, but while he and his friend Johnny are on the run, after Johnny has accidentally killed a boy from another gang, Ponyboy gains comfort from reading Gone With the Wind and Robert Frost.
Market pressures are exactly what academics need".
He was never exactly a legal academic; he didn't write law-review articles or seek a tenure-track job.
As it happens, this 13-percentage-point penalty almost exactly matches an academic analysis on how much voters hold sex scandals against candidates.
This lack of finesse has led to calls to pass this work over to professional managers – exactly what my academic colleagues would not want.
So when David Jones declares, "if you want to be free of coercion from politicians, don't take public money," he expresses exactly the attitude academic freedom was formulated to oppose.
"If you've got a poor black kid and a rich white kid that have exactly the same academic achievement levels, do you want the same expectations for both of them the next year?
