Sentence examples for professor reading from inspiring English sources

Spouting history like a loony professor, reading to the pigs and snacking on ants, Nat is deaf to the pleas of his long-suffering wife (Mary McDonnell).

During an English class in Frederick Wiseman's documentary "At Berkeley" a professor reading Thoreau's "Walden" with his students points to a passage in which the surface calm of the pond hides the conflict churning in its depths.

Instead, maybe I need only be a brown guy writing out his study of language and the self--the same as the Paterson doctor, the Hartford insurance executive, the lesbian expat in Paris, the gay Jew from New Jersey, the male white poet teaching at the University of Houston, or the straight black female professor reading her poem at the American president's inauguration.

In fact, Fox suggests that if Kober had been better supported in academia, and less willing to donate hundreds of hours of unpaid secretarial work to an Oxford University professor (reading between the lines: if she'd been a man), she might have got there first.

But that's not how Moore, the political science professor, read it.

If the professor reads their PowerPoint line by line, the students won't take notes.

In September, when Mr. Wheeler began his senior year at Harvard, an English professor read his Rhodes submission and saw similarities between it and the work of a colleague.

At Amherst Books, a local professor read from his new book on Chinese history at 5 p.m., while a children's book author, also local, followed at 7 30, along with cider and pumpkin bread.

To inaugurate the program, Mr. Collins, who is poet laureate of the United States and a CUNY distinguished professor, read from "Sailing Alone," and some of his other books, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last week.

"The Satanic Verses" is still banned in India, and so in late afternoon Hari Kunzru, the author of "The Impressionist" and other novels, and Amitava Kumar, an Indian writer and Vassar professor, read passages from the novel as a form of protest, to much applause.

The modality dates back, at least, to the medieval period when the technology of textbooks was introduced into the classroom where, traditionally, the professor read to the students from the only existing manuscript.