Sentence examples for scholarly bent from inspiring English sources

Most identitarians have a less scholarly bent.

His scholarly bent makes sense, given his background.

His predecessor, Kwik Kian Gie, was criticized for his scholarly bent, which critics said translated into halting policies.

The two share a scholarly bent: General Petraeus holds a Ph.D. from Princeton, while Ambassador Eikenberry has master's degrees from Harvard and Stanford.

Early on, Mr. Tally redirected a scholarly bent (at Brown University he wrote his master's thesis on Baudelaire) to the study of glamour.

She endows him with valor, magnanimity, aristocratic lineage, a scholarly bent -- we sense an author a little in love with her hero -- and a questing spirit.

Every movie fan with the slightest scholarly or antiquarian bent carries around a canon culled from film history, a register of consensus masterpieces, important milestones and significant developments, from "The Birth of a Nation" to "Saving Private Ryan," with a roster in between that seems, in hindsight, to be as fixed as the reading list in a college literature survey.

3) The lack of female authors on these shelves (and on other hipster-lit lists around the Internet) suggests that the recent hipster movement will one day provide a rich vein for serious scholarly inquiry of a feminist bent, even if it still today provokes ridicule.

Criticism of The YOLO Pages, from a metamodernist's perspective, would likely take the following form: These texts continue to use the instinctive postmodern bent of their scholarly and popular readership as a crutch, and in this respect perform only ephemeral simulacra of metamodernism, not the autonomous genuine article metamodernism strives toward.

To many, the work will not immediately present as being of an experimental bent; we've been trained, in part by years of quasi-scholarly essays written by poets in the lineage of Language poetry, to see experimentation as consequential only when it theorizes language via what scholars deem the "philosophy of language" (or, related but different, the "philosophy of mind").

Whilst this work is mainly of scholarly interest, Alexander spends one chapter "Observations on the Essay" critiquing Locke, and here Alexander reveals the bent of his own early views.