Sentence examples for scholar standing from inspiring English sources

Yet no picture in it has the pure poetic magic of Luo's painting of a red-robed scholar standing in the prow of a moving boat and dragging the entire landscape behind him like a billowing cloak.

A hanging scroll done nearly 20 years later -- its brushwork loose, parched and spare -- has the image of a scholar standing on a natural stone bridge stretching over an abyss.

This gritty, down-to-earth quality, in keeping with the industrialisation that was spreading through the US at the time, was enshrined in the school motto, Mens et Manus – Mind and Hand – as well as its logo, which showed a gowned scholar standing beside an ironmonger bearing a hammer and anvil.

Now, every time I read Rumi in Beirut, I think about this devoted, young Rumi scholar, standing in the middle of a war zone, singing poems of peace.

He is, after all, a former professor of English at Oxford and a scrupulous, serious scholar of justified standing.

At a time of wrenching social change in China, a new generation of Tibetan intellectuals, artists, writers and scholars are increasingly standing by the side of Liu Xiaobo and other Chinese dissidents.

"Many of your scholars," Awlaki warned last year, are "standing between you and your duty of jihad".

Zawahiri's main problem in countering Fadl was his own lack of standing as a religious scholar.

Family dynamics in the Caribbean, including Jamaica, have long drawn attention from scholars, and have been noted for standing out in cross-cultural perspective.

Furthermore, in this electronic age, it makes sense to know your colleagues in terms of their citation record, h-index, and standing in communities such as Google Scholar, Research Gate, and academia.edu.edu

And some Israeli analysts praised Mr. Morsi for standing against the militant Islamists, though scholars of the Muslim Brotherhood note that it has opposed the use of violence since Egypt's 1952 revolution against the British-backed monarchy.