Their chatty seminar may not have been as precise or authoritative as the scholarly conference sessions held here this week, which detailed how the Japanese raid burned and drowned and blew apart 2,390 Americans, destroyed much of the Pacific Fleet and pushed the United States into war.
Good writing, whether it's in a novel or a scholarly essay, is precise, evocative and spiced with the unexpected.
Gerard Koeppel, a journalist, shows a scholarly fascination for the precise details of the legislative progress of the Erie Canal, the waterway that, in 1825, joined the Great Lakes to the Hudson river and so to the Atlantic ocean at New York City.
When we look at a Byzantine mosaic, for instance, we may not grasp the precise meaning of its images without scholarly help — but that remoteness lends such artworks the marvellousness of something just beyond our understanding.
Wooden was a dignified, scholarly man who spoke with the precise language of the English teacher he once was.
Presumably there is some scholarly disagreement with 12-week Daddy Hunt over the precise status of foetal rights in the intervening days.
This work must be based on scholarly evidence acquired through carefully designed studies, accurate and precise measurements, and appropriate analysis.
Although the precise nature of these influences is a matter of scholarly controversy that cannot be engaged in this article, it is important to note that Leibniz's exoteric strategies bear significantly on this general topic.
He is a tall, reserved Scandinavian who speaks in calm tones and with precise British diction, tending to smooth his colleague's edges with scholarly qualifications.
