His work has been characterized by eloquence, scholarly scrupulousness, and a desire to convey in English the concrete ferocity of the original Hebrew.
Ernest May and especially Akira Iriye inspired their graduate students, through their teaching and scholarly example, with a desire to explore the complex network of cross-influences between the United States and the world at large.
As the book explains in scholarly yet detectivelike detail, the desired effect wound up afflicting Indian tribes all over the continent.
Confining humanities research to print-only journals – to which, essentially, only academic libraries subscribe – while claiming this as reputation-building, scholarly publishing does not suggest a desire to educate a populace, but looks rather like the work of an archaic ivory tower obsessed with its own importance.
Efforts to tackle difficult topics often become politicized, torn between historians' desire to treat issues with scholarly detachment and an expectation that the Smithsonian's role is to honor the nation's past.
He sought to renew the Roman Catholic church in Germany by means of his friendship with the Holy Roman emperor and numerous magnates, by his zealous preaching in various German towns, by the extension of the Jesuit order, and especially by his desire to provide worthy and scholarly priests.
Yet this impulse is counterpoised by a desire for order, exhibited in his scholarly, rather than purely critical, work.
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) was motivated by the electronic preprint community, which has a strong desire to increase the availability of scholarly repositories and to enhance access to them.
They were drawn by the combined forces of the value placed by Truman on undergraduate research, the grant-funded opportunity to do interdisciplinary work in an area of great national interest, and the desire to become part of a scholarly community with some shared interests.
The main incentive for learning Arabic must have come from the desire of a subject population to learn the administrative and scholarly language of the ruling and learned elite.
