Sentence examples for professor of something from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rumson, who seemed like such a nice man, a mild-mannered professor of something, who evidently didn't believe in sunscreen, the way his nose peeled — she'd met him the one time she picked up the key — he'd left the place well armed, nonetheless.

Brown's long occult-mystery novels, featuring the intrepid Dr. Robert Langdon, a tenured Harvard professor of something called symbology — a field unknown to both Harvard and spell-check (try it) — are the welcome if improbable million-and-beyond best-sellers of our time, with the latest episode, "The Lost Symbol," now upon us.

That's the line of reasoning of David Nutt, a British professor of something called neuropsychopharmacology.

I don't know, but I seriously doubt Robert Reich, a Professor of Something-Other-than-Nuclear-Engineering knows.

Linda Bensel-Meyers, a professor of rhetoric, delivered something of a speech.

Celebrity academics Stephen Whitehead, professor of sociology, is something of an expert on men.

Jay Rosen, media critic and NYU professor of journalism, said: "Something happened when he was asked to take a look at the Washington Post".

It was 2 30 on a winter morning several years ago at the National Institutes of Health outside of Washington, D.C. when Annelise Barron, PhD, a professor of bioengineering, spotted something odd.

A Rhodes scholar and a Princeton graduate, he wrote an intelligent book about being on the road with the Knicks and then, as if to prove his seriousness, married a professor of comparative literature (something it is hard to imagine Dennis Rodman doing).

What would it matter whom Emma [Bovary] married if she could file for separation later?" Eugenides presents this professor as something of a doddering geezer, but the belief that the "great novels" of the past derived much of their greatness from the strictures of the past is certainly not unique to him.

AUDIENCE: Is this what we talked about in lecture, or are we thinking of something else? PROFESSOR: He might have talked about that at the end of lecture.