Sentence examples for respectable scholars from inspiring English sources

And it is a little disconcerting to find Ann Coulter thrown into the mix of respectable scholars, just to make Jacoby's point.

One, a respectable but minority view among Beauvoir scholars, is that she was the engineer of the whole pact.

There is also a streak of sharp sarcasm in his poetry that is aimed at the representatives of respectable religious life; not only are pious scholars, Islamic judges, preachers, and the guardians of public morality his targets, but so too are the ascetic Sufis.

The resources available to viewers in a family gallery, art exhibitions and an anatomical institute suggest interpretations of this first portrait of an embryologist as such – the Basel scholar and Leipzig professor, the respectable researcher of origins, the founder of modern human embryology – that differ from the stock figures of evolutionist, abortionist and experimentalist.

Merchants frequently colluded commercially and politically with officials, despite the fact that scholar-officials looked down on mercantile vocations as less respectable pursuits than farming or craftsmanship.

There's one bona fide scholar on Beck's faculty, whose reading list is quite respectable.

Fielding's Tom Jones, whose hero is amoral and very nearly gallows-meat, has been called picaresque, and the Pickwick Papers of Dickens whose eponym is a respectable and even childishly ingenuous scholar can be accommodated in the category.

Mark Lilla, the Columbia historian and scholar of the mentality of European reactionaries, described Camus as "a kind of connective tissue between the far right and the respectable right".

"One respectable.

Pretty respectable.

Respectable opinion is aghast.