Sentence examples for scholarly elite from inspiring English sources

Revived in the south, it increasingly became a literary form for a scholarly elite.

He then discovered Nanga, based on "literati" works by the Chinese scholarly elite and incorporating calligraphy, poetry and landscape.

The way Woolford sees it, the scholarly elite, once the gatekeepers of discovery, are having to make room for any adventure seeker who can pay for the experience.

A consequence of the church's use of Latin as the language of the liturgy was that Classical texts continued to be read, and Terence, whose moral tone made him the least offensive of the Roman dramatists, acquired new popularity among a small scholarly elite.

Despite the scholar-officials' suspicion and disdain for powerful merchants, the latter often colluded with the scholarly elite.

The rise of English is unparalleled in world history - dwarfing even the impressive territorial and demographic expansion of Latin, the administrative language of the Western Roman Empire, of the Catholic Church, and of the European scholarly elite for centuries.

But political and scholarly elites here have more often resisted that trend, tending to see basic support for Israel as a German responsibility, if not a necessity, after the Holocaust.

This body was very unlike the elite scholarly institutions; it was more like a craft guild with a penchant for spectacular demonstrations.

The book of transcripts was published in English in January and has not been widely seen here outside elite and scholarly circles.

Hand's studious ways resulted in his election to Phi Beta Kappa, an elite society of scholarly students.

Richard Overy's scholarly but gripping Interrogations: the Nazi Elite in Allied Hands (Allen Lane £25, pp672) takes a fascinating trawl through its raw material.