Sentence examples for professional scholars from inspiring English sources

For professional scholars of language, though, they are more like history books.

As Murphy learns, however, professional scholars now tell the story very differently.

Ignorance, commercial greed and academic rivalry ensured that it took a long time for the manuscripts to reach professional scholars.

For the work, marvellously awash with judicious reflection on the latest scholarship though it is, is not really aimed at professional scholars.

Fawcett, he went on, may have been an amateur, but, in some ways, he was able to see things more clearly than many professional scholars.

She issued confident yet prudent judgments, and wrote in a taut and at times elegant prose that surpasses in quality that of more than a few professional scholars.

Remarkably, in a field as specialized as Tudor studies, he is not a professional scholar but rather a retired municipal bond trader and amateur bibliophile.

She is ethereally beautiful; timelessly elegant; a superb horsewoman; an intuitive amateur psychologist; a highly accomplished painter; fluent in French; more erudite than a professional scholar.

Although Baruch Spinoza is one of the great thinkers of the European philosophical tradition, he was not a professional scholar – he earned his modest living as a lens grinder.

A life of the Royal Historian, whose 14 Oz books are unsentimental, emphasizing the homely American virtues of self-reliance and practicality, and fearlessly approaching old problems like the soul-body question; by a professional scholar and lifetime Oz devotee.

He replied, with that opaque courtesy beloved of both Chinese officials and Whitehall mandarins, that it could not be done.He was a figure who might have been at home in the Middle Kingdom, where professional scholar-officials, with the equivalent of his double starred firsts in English and law from Cambridge, kept the vast realm ticking like clockwork.