Sentence examples for formidable scholars from inspiring English sources

When I was awarded my honorary doctorate last year I was impressed by the warm atmosphere and intellectual drive of the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, which is home to formidable scholars and committed Caribbeanists.

When I was awarded my honorary doctorate last year I was impressed by the warm atmosphere and intellectual drive of the department of literature, film, and theatre studies which is home to formidable scholars and committed Caribbeanists.

It's a gamble that Phillips, for one, is prepared to make, and he has the charismatic presence to persuade a lot of formidable scholars and writers to come along with him for the ride.

She also studied with Dietrich von Bothmer, a formidable scholar of Greek vases, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Jonathan Jones's article on Penelope Curtis, outgoing director of Tate Britain, (misogynist subtext?) is a highly unpleasant attack on a formidable scholar and curator.

She is a formidable scholar of 17th-century poetry specializing in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, those notoriously difficult, cerebral examinations of life, death and the afterlife.

Marquand commands our attention as a leading example of a rare species: a true public intellectual, a former politician as well as a formidable scholar.

Jean Dreze, an economist based in India who has worked with Deaton, said: "Angus Deaton is not only a brilliant economist but also a formidable scholar and a great writer.

"He is a formidable scholar and this book will undoubtedly make waves and cause us to think again about the text – or texts – of Shakespeare's greatest play," he said.

More potent even than Tatar's annotations are her choices: a formidable scholar of the unschooled, she rummages through all possible tellings and retellings to finally choose the version of a familiar story that strikes her as in one way or another definitive.

This contrast invites the suspicion that Manchester University regards the presence of two such formidable critical scholars as an embarrassment to its self-image as a hub in the "knowledge economy".