Sentence examples for scholarly figure from inspiring English sources
Gyaltsab is a rotund but scholarly figure and a man not in the habit of wasting words in secular conversation.
A tall, thin, and scholarly figure, he was the antithesis of a populist politician and as an Old Etonian and former Oxford rowing blue he was a distinct throwback to an earlier era in Liberal politics.
Its senior Orthodox prelate, Archbishop Anastasios, a scholarly figure with a deep knowledge of Islam, has been raising money from western churches to help the Kosovo refugees, and will use this weekend's Orthodox Christian Easter celebrations to pray for all victims of ethnic hatred.
Mr Dedek himself cuts a slight, stooping, rather scholarly figure, a man in his mid-fifties who moves at great speed through his company's spotless workshops and hi-tech assembly halls, pausing briefly to examine a piece of circuit board.
Unmarried all his life, Mattis, 66, was known as a hard-charging but scholarly figure who issued heavy reading lists to his subordinates and who carried "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius on his deployments.
The letter's authors include well-known religious and scholarly figures in the Muslim world, including Sheikh Shawqi Allam, the grand mufti of Egypt, and Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, the mufti of Jerusalem and All Palestine.
The pale, scholarly euphemisms ("figures", a "naked youth") are challenged – "they don't say slaves".
That is Obama now: a scholarly project, a figure of history.
Yu's work on religion and literature drew on both Eastern and Western traditions, and he made scholarly contributions on figures as diverse as Aeschylus, Dante, and William Faulkner.
English essayist, journalist, and author of satiric novels of British society and of scholarly biographies of literary figures.
A.N. Wilson, in full Andrew Norman Wilson (born Oct. 27, 1950, Stone, Staffordshire, Eng)., English essayist, journalist, and author of satiric novels of British society and of scholarly biographies of literary figures.
