Sentence examples for quite academic from inspiring English sources

She might go back and do physiotherapy, she's quite academic".

We're also both from slightly middle-class backgrounds and secretly quite academic.

Up until then I was quite academic, but I soon started attending the art college where Paddy and Shane were studying.

These were credible instances of a not quite academic, not quite naturalist, not quite Impressionist international style of the era, sometimes termed the juste-milieu (roughly, "middle of the road").

Dr Derek Bell of the Association for Science Education says: "Most of the kids that he [Dr Stephen] would have come across are quite academic and wish to study the subject for its own sake.

"The Double Negative is a space where on any given day you can find a really thought-provoking and quite academic piece, sat alongside comment on the industry, critical writing and listings," says Pinnington. "There's something for everyone with an interest in a serious look at the arts; we have a real interest in promoting Liverpool as an ambitious, connected and outward-looking city.

Ms. Dickey points out that his publishing record is abysmal: despite having boasted of over a hundred peer-reviewed publications, he is in fact responsible for only two not-quite-academic papers.

I'm quite an academic person.

There are occasional glimpses of this quite separate academic life in print.

It is not news, of course, that universities accept athletes who read at the fifth-grade level or worse; quite often academic counseling is remedial.

Her story probably stood out to me the most, because it was the closest to mine – although I'm perceived to be quite an academic person, I don't enjoy it.