Sam was a quiet scholar all his life engaging himself in biomedical research and developments in medical technology.
If so, his papacy could become a contrast to that of his predecessor, Benedict XVI, a quiet German scholar and former doctrinal enforcer for the church, who at times seemed to accept the prospect of a church dwindling in the future to a faithful remnant of the most devout, hunkered down in the catacombs.
He was a quiet man, a scholar.
American railroad millionaires pouring funds into Old Master paintings looked to two men for guidance: for aesthetic value, the final arbiter was the art connoisseur Bernard Berenson, a quiet, refined gentleman-scholar; for market value, no one was more outspoken, or more reported on, than the boisterous, cigar-chomping dealer Joseph Duveen.
This diminutive, quiet, and unassuming scholar and gentleman so profoundly affected nearly all of us professionally and personally that his imprint is as meaningful and lasting as our collective alma maters.
Still, some scholars remain dubious.
Discussion of such sensitive issues should be confined to calm and quiet interchange among qualified scholars and should be kept far from the masses (CWE 76 11 12).
During these years Dilthey led the quiet life of a scholar, devoid of great external excitement and in total dedication to his work.
"It is quite a shame that we have fallen behind because Afghanistan is truly the heart of Asia," said Mr. Khahani, 38, a thin man with the quiet bearing of a scholar.
He stands before an audience of 30 some black and some white, mostly shy and slowly, carefully, extracts their opinions.The professor works at the Kettering Foundation, which employs some 20 scholars in this quiet town, and their mission is to promote something called deliberative democracy.
